Good reasons to be a member:
to get up-to-date information of all kinds about:
- advanced training
- national and international congresses, meetings, conferences ...
- current publications
- professional political issues
- vacancies
to exchange ideas with colleagues
- to enrich your own practice
- for collegial inter- and covision
- for the planning and implementation of joint projects
to be able to borrow literature from the specialist library:
- trade journals
- Books
- Lecture manuscripts
in order to be able to establish international contacts, because our association is probably the only European association of artistic therapists in which so many foreign diplomas are represented and in which so many different languages are spoken (Luxembourgish, German, French, English, Portuguese, Spanish , Italian, Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, Danish, etc.)
to take part in conferences and training courses at a preferential price
to promote the quality assurance of our work
to get support for research projects
to be placed on a list that can be consulted by potential clients seeking a qualified artistic therapist
to actively participate in the establishment and recognition of our profession - the more and the better organized we are, the more weight we have!
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As an active member In accordance with the applicable guidelines, upon written application for admission , all those persons are admitted who can prove to a certain extent completed training in an artistic form of therapy. The membership fee is currently 100 euros. Job seekers pay half.
You can be accepted as a student member if you are in training to become an artistic therapist. In addition to the completed application form, we need a valid certificate of enrollment. The membership fee is currently 50 euros.
If you are neither a trained artistic therapist nor an artistic therapist studying, but would like to support our cause, you can become a supporting member of the ALAtD with 50 euros or a voluntarily higher amount. This means that you can take part in all of our events at a reduced price.
Arts Therapies
Arts therapies are characterised by the fact that they mainly use creative media as means of expression and communication within a therapeutic relationship, which is why they are sometimes called "pre-linguistic" or "non-verbal" therapies. Theatre or drama therapy, of course, also uses language as a creative medium.
Unlike occupational therapy, in which creative media are mainly used, for example, to train certain manual and cognitive skills, promote concentration or achieve a general strengthening of self-esteem, arts therapies use pre- and non-linguistic communication. They also pay close attention to what is communicated through the creative process itself. The free self expression makes it possible to regulate and restructure thinking, feeling and behaviour. Wherever possible, process and product are reflected on together with the client/patient. These are therefore independent or complementary psychotherapeutic processes with specific objectives for each individual/group, where treatment at the linguistic level alone is not possible or not effective.
Arts therapists are therefore not psychotherapists who use artistic means, but therapists who use the psychotherapeutic potential of artistic means.
Arts therapies are practised on the theoretical background of different psychotherapeutic approaches and orientations: psychodynamic, behavioural, gestalt, humanistic-client-centred, systemic and integrative.
Arts therapies can take place as individual, group, couple or family therapy, e.g. during clinical or day-clinical psychiatric or psychosomatic treatment, but also in institutions for the disabled, old people's homes, rehabilitation centres, in prison to support resocialisation measures, or on an outpatient basis in a private practice.