Art and Drama Therapy
Art psychotherapy and dramatherapy as regulated professions: what a session involves, who they are offered to, and how good the controlled evidence really is.
- Craft, Making and Mental Health: Knitting, Pottery and Men's Sheds
July 17, 2026
Community making is not therapy and does not need to be. What draws people in, what has been measured, and how the claims inflate.
- Therapeutic Writing and Photovoice: Useful, Unregistered and Often Mislabelled
July 10, 2026
Expressive writing and participatory photography are neither of them registered therapies. What they involve, and the consent trap in one.
- Dramatherapy in Mental Health Services: Wards, Forensic Units and Evidence
July 8, 2026
Secure and inpatient settings employed dramatherapists long before the research arrived. What the work looks like there, and how thin the base is.
- Dramatherapy: The Fourth Protected Title and the Least Known One
July 1, 2026
Role, story and improvisation used clinically, on the same statutory register as music therapy. What it involves and where it is actually offered.
- Art Therapy During Cancer Treatment: Use, Access and the Certainty Problem
June 23, 2026
Oncology has a large arts literature and very little of it is strong. What the work is used for alongside treatment, graded claim by claim.
- Art Therapy for Children: Schools, CAMHS and Who the Picture Belongs To
June 22, 2026
Consent works differently when the client is eight. Where children are seen, who agrees to it, and what happens to the work a child makes.
- Training as an Art Therapist: UK and US Routes, and What the Credentials Mean
June 9, 2026
A protected title on one side of the Atlantic and a patchwork of credentials on the other. What each route requires, and what it does not.
- Art Therapy for Trauma and PTSD: What the Controlled Evidence Supports
May 29, 2026
The claims here run well ahead of the trials. What is genuinely established, what is borrowed from adjacent fields, and what is unstudied.
- Art Therapy for Psychosis: The MATISSE Trial and Why Services Still Offer It
May 8, 2026
Four hundred and seventeen people, three arms, no benefit on either primary outcome. What that trial settled, and the question it left open.
- What Happens in an Art Therapy Session: Materials, Silence and the Image
May 7, 2026
Nobody teaches you technique and nobody interprets your picture at you. The shape of the hour, and what happens to the work once it ends.
- Art Therapy or an Art Class: The Difference Is Not Talent
May 5, 2026
A painting group and a clinical intervention can look identical from the doorway. The checks that separate them, and why both are worth having.
- Art Therapy and Art Psychotherapy: The Regulated Profession Behind the Word
April 20, 2026
Two protected titles cover one profession, and a craft afternoon covers none of them. What UK regulation guarantees, and why no fee figure is quoted.