Community, compassion & integrity: Consideration to ethics within art(s) therapy community project

Compassion is at the core of art(s) therapy community work, and passion is the stimulus that excites and ignites such projects. Alongside the incredible drive, engagement, and transformative processes and gains from these noble and responsive efforts, integrity of the profession must be consciously adhered to and abided by. Ethics must consistently guide our profession, and the impact of social media and social interest on community arts therapy practice must be strategically attended to. This presentation will highlight the pragmatics of planning, delivering and documenting large-scale community art(s) projects within ethical frameworks that foreground community, compassion and integrity. Challenges and successes from practice will be discussed.    
Citation:
Lay, Ronald. “Community, compassion & integrity: Consideration to ethics within art(s) therapy community projects.” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Arts Therapy, vol. 13, no. 1, 2018, pp. 47-53.