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.
Day of Art therapy in Europe 2024
What if … art could heal you?
Qualified Art Therapists can ensure it does!
Today Luxembourg’s Association of Qualified Art Therapists (ALAtD) celebrates the 3rd Day of Art Therapy in Europe. ALAtD emphasizes the importance of working with skilled professionals. With the growing recognition of art therapy’s benefits, it is crucial to seek out an art therapist who has the proper training and experience to guide individuals through their therapeutic journey.
A 2019 report by the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the benefits of art-related activity for mental health. Making art can provide a sense of well-being linked to the fact that the brain enters what is known as a “flow state”: the capacity to focus on the present moment and shed most worries. However, artistic creation can also lead to stress or discouragement if people feel pressured to produce something deemed "perfect." Even well-intentioned comments and appreciation can inadvertently induce feelings of insecurity or pressure to please.
The Luxembourgish Association of Qualified Art Therapists (ALAtD) was founded on October 13, 2008, with the mission of advocating for the recognition by the government of art therapy as a qualified, cohesive, and ethically bound profession. Additionally, the ALAtD provides information to the public and collaborates with European counterparts to promote the advancement of art therapy.
A list of qualified art therapists working in private practice can be found on the ALAtD website: https://www.alatd.lu/
For information about ALAtD and Art Therapy contact us by mail: alatd.asbl@gmail.com
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❓Where do you work?
💬 Hôpital Kirchberg - Adult Psychiatry Service
❓Which target group do you work with?
💬I work with adult patients aged 18 and over with all kinds of psychiatric diagnoses.
❓With what objective?
💬Due to the diversity of the problems we treat, the goals vary greatly from individual to individual, but on the whole, one can say that in an acute crisis, the aim is always to achieve psychological stabilization.
❓A special sense of achievement?
💬There are many examples, but just a few days ago a patient (who was quite experienced in therapy) told me that through art therapy she had learned and understood many things that had not been clear to her before, and that this showed her that art therapy was useful and meaningful.
❓Where do you work?
💬I work in the youth psychiatric unit at Hôpitaux Robert Schuman (acute care unit, day clinic, and therapy unit).
❓Which target group do you work with?
💬I work with adolescents with psychiatric illnesses such as adjustment disorders, incipient psychoses, affective disorders, addictions, eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, obesity, etc.), attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADD/ADHD) or post-traumatic stress disorder.
❓With what objective?
💬Above all, it's about meeting the young person where they are. Depending on the problem/diagnosis, very different goals are formulated. These range from stabilization during the acute phase to fostering personal resources, regulating emotions, learning skills, and strengthening self-esteem and self-image.
Above all, patients should be able to express themselves freely in a protected therapeutic setting, using a wide variety of materials.
❓A special sense of achievement?
💬It's always nice to receive feedback from patients describing the feeling of "being a child again." Patients often say that they feel joy again and have found something through art therapy with which they can freely express their feelings or inner images.
Art therapy is generally very well received by young people, and is often even called their “favorite therapy.”
❓Où travailles-tu et avec quel setting?
💬 I work in my cabinet, in libéral, essential in individual séances.
❓Avec source population cible travailles-tu?
💬 It works with children for 3 years, with adolescents and adults.
❓What are their objectives?
💬 In all premier lieu, I have the advantage of establishing a relationship of confiance and a free therapeutic space and protection, in order to accumulate the person who says it, in all its singularity and with all the amène, without jugement. Je vais l'accompagner, de manière non directive, dans un processus créatif, en utilisant des médiateurs artisticiques, tels que le dessin, la peinture, le collage, l'écriture ou le jeu de sable. Ceci, afin de lui permettre de trouver d'autres voie/voix pour s'exprimer, de mieux se connaître et de se découvrir de new resources où venir puiser pour dépasser les difficultés, les souffrances ou les traumas.
❓Une expérience de réussite particulière!
💬 I spend a lot of time with a woman who has an accompaniment and who has debuted in a completely insatisfactory way with her paintings, which will not arrive until the image is reproduced in a precise and parfaite manner that is available in person. Elle a pu lâcher prize et faire taire son critique intérieur. The painting and the collage are on the permis de se reconnecter à des émotions profondes et enfouies, de se reconnecter à la small fille en souffrance et continuent aujourd'hui de l'aider à « penser » et « panser » ses blessures. Grâce à ces médiateurs, grâce à la force des images plutôt que des mots, elle peut mettre de côté son cerveau et ce sont ses mains, son qui travaillent, sous l'impulsion de son inconscient, lui permettant d'avancer et de devenir de plus en plus forte.
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❓Où travailles-tu et avec quel setting?
💬 Je travaille au Centre National de Rééducation Fonctionnelle et de Réadaptation - REHAZENTER en séances individuelles et de groupe.
❓Avec quelle population cible travailles-tu?
💬 Je travaille avec les personnes dans le cadre de leur rééducation neurologique (AVC, TC, maladies neuro-dégénératives,...) ou traumato-orthopédique.
❓Quels sont tes objectifs?
💬 Les objectifs diffèrent de patient à patient. Souvent l'objectif principal est de permettre aux patients d'exprimer leurs émotions par rapport à leur situation d'handicap, de revaloriser leur estime de soi et de regagner en confiance de soi.
❓Une expérience de réussite particulière?
💬 Les exemples ne manqueraient pas, mais dernièrement une patiente m'a remercié pour que grâce à l'art-thérapie elle aurait découvert son intérêt pour l'art, alors qu'en début de prise en charge elle était très sceptique. "Comment quelqu'un d'hémiplégique peut dessiner ou faire de la poterie?".
L'art-thérapie lui a permet de retrouver confiance en elle, d'oser faire, elle a pu lâcher prise pendant les séances et faire "le vide", comme elle l'exprime des pensées négatives. Elle m'a aussi dit que es séances d'art-thérapie étaient pour elle un "time out" de la rééducation.