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27, 166–170.
Svensk, A. C., Oster, I., Thyme, K. E., Magnusson, E.,
Sjödin, M., Eisemann, M., et al. (2009). Art therapy improves
experienced quality of life among women undergoing
treatment for breast cancer: A randomized controlled study.
European Journal of Cancer Care (Engl),18, 69–77.
Wadeson, H. (2000). Art therapy practice: Innovative
approaches with diverse populations . New York: John Wiley
& Sons.
Sandra Drabant is a senior art therapist at Mater Children’s Hospital
CYMHS Day Program and a lecturer in the School of Medicine at
The University of Queensland. She is interested in using her own art
making as a way of expression and practicing an eclectic art therapy
approach when working with children, young people and their families
within a multidisciplinary team. Maggie Wilson is a high school
art teacher, who completed her postgraduate art therapy training at
Goldsmiths College London University in 1990. She has worked for
the last 19 years in drug and alcohol, homelessness, and child and
youth mental health. Her private practice interests are currently cross-
cultural art therapy group work, creative debriefing and supervision
for mental health teams and practitioners. Maggie works at the Mater
CYMHS as the KOPMI (Kids of Parents With a Mental Illness) program
co-coordinator. Maggie is an Australian Registered Art Therapist and
lecturers in the Masters of Mental Health Art Therapy Program at
the University of Queensland. Robert King is a clinical psychologist
and Associate Professor in the School of Medicine of The University
of Queensland where he leads a multidisciplinary graduate mental
health program. He is interested in psychosocial rehabilitation for
people with severe mental illness and is the author of The Handbook of
Psychosocial Rehabilitation (Blackwell) as well as many peer-reviewed
papers in this field. His involvement in this project reflects a specific
interest in the role of creativity in recovery from mental illness.
Correspondence to:
A/Prof Robert King
School of Medicine
The University of Queensland and Kids in Mind Research
Mater Health Services
email:
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training and treatment. London and New York: Routledge
Taylor & Francis Group.
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to change. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 11,
271–282.
Wilson, M. (1996). Emergent youth case management
in a crisis medium term refuge. In National Conference on
Homelessness, Homelessness in the lucky country 1996-
2000: how will we meet the challenge? (pp. 291–297).
Melbourne: Council to Homeless Persons.
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