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
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to exchange ideas with colleagues
- to enrich your own practice
- for collegial inter- and covision
- for the planning and implementation of joint projects
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to be able to borrow literature from the specialist library:
- trade journals
- Books
- Lecture manuscripts
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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.)
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to take part in conferences and training courses at a preferential price
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to promote the quality assurance of our work
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to get support for research projects
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to be placed on a list that can be consulted by potential clients seeking a qualified artistic therapist
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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.
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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.
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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.
Art therapy uses the means of visual design and communication.
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The client can express themself figuratively or abstractly by means of line, form, colour, surface, structure. They can tell stories, capture moods, express feelings or create symbolic representations, express his inner images or deal with external reality, create freely and spontaneously or work on a set task, visualise experiences and problems, work out and try out solutions in and through the creative process.
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Visual works are lasting traces of a mental and physical process and can thus document a development over a longer period of time making it accessible for contemplation. Talking and reflecting on this process and the product enables one to become more aware of one's own conflicts and resources, to discover new perspectives and possible solutions.
In its receptive form, i.e. art contemplation, which is often combined with subsequent action, art therapy uses the intensive confrontation with works of art as a catalyst for one's own feelings and perceptions.
Art therapy