The National Association for Poetry Therapy
The creative arts therapies include art therapy, dance/movement therapy,
drama therapy, music therapy, psychodrama, and poetry therapy. These
therapies use arts modalities and creative processes during intentional
intervention in therapeutic, rehabilatative, community, or educational
settings to foster health, communication, and expression; promote the
integration of physical, emotional, cognitive, and social functioning; enhance
self-awareness; and facilitate change.
Each member association as established professional training standards
including an approval and monitoring process, a code of ethics and standards
of clinical practice, and a credentialing process. Annual conferences,
journals, and newsletters for each association foster professional
development, as well as educate the public and allied professionals about each
discipline.
Although unique and distinct from one another, the creative parts
therapies share related processes and goals. Participation in all the
creative parts therapies provides people with special needs ways to express
themselves that may not be possible through more traditional therapies.
For over 50 years, art, dance/ movement, drama, music, poetry therapists,
and psychodramatists have provided meaningful therapeutic opportunities for
people of all ages in a wide variety of treatment settings and schools.
National Coalition of Arts Therapies
Associations
(NCATA)
2000 Century Plaza Ste. 108
Columbia MD 21044
TEL: 410 - 997-4040 FAX: 410 - 997-4048
Susan Kleinman MA ADTR , Chair
American Assoc for Music Therapy (AAMT)
1 Station Plaza
Ossining, NY 10562
TEL: 914- 944-9260
FAX: 914-944-9387
David Ramsey, Executive Director
American Assoc. for Art Therapy (AATA)
1202 Allanson Rd.
Mundelein, Il 60060
TEL: 708-949-6064 FAX: 708 - 566-4580
Ed Steyger, Executive Director
National Assoc for Poetry Therapy (NAPT)
PO Box 551
Port Washington, NY 11050
TEL: 516-944-9791 FAX: 516 - 944-5818
Alicia Seeger, Office Manager
Debrah Langosh ACSW, Executive Director
American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA)
2000 Century Plaza Ste. 108
Columbia MD 21044
TEL: 410-997-4040 FAX: 410 - 997-4048
Pat Gardner, Office Manager
National Association for Drama Therapy (NADT)
44 Taylor Place
Branford, Ct. 06405
TEL: 203 - 481-1161 FAX: 203 - 483 - 7373
Kathryn Templeton, Office Manager
American Society of Group Psychotherapy & Psychodrama (ASGPP)
6728 Old McLean Village
Mclean, VA 22101
TEL: 703 - 556-9222 FAX: 703 - 556 - 8729
Cheryl Kildae, Associate Executive Director
Creative arts therapists interested in a web site here, please E-Mail Eric Miller Ph.D. CMT-BC for more
information.Creative Arts Therapists' Sites:
