Presently, I think my greatest struggle is in wanting to approach art therapy from a social action perspective, but having a rigid idea of how this looks and feels in practice. There is a gap between the ideology with which I ascribe and my ability to apply or interject this approach in my internship setting. Social action, to me, means recognizing the intersecting roles that race, gender, class, sexuality and other systems of oppression affect and inhibit an individual’s quest for empowerment. It is an approach that shifts the focus of treatment from deficits and diagnosis to an emphasis on strength and possibility.
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