ethics

The next issue of Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association will be focusing on ethics. As we enter the era of social networking, how to manage ethics and boundaries as a clinician is very relevant and important issue. I am particularly interested in the traditional view that the therapist should be a "blank slate" to the client. I find this concept a profound contrast to the increasing resources and media knowledge that social media often entail. Googling ones name may be more than a fun somewhat self-indulgent way to track one's status, but rather a form of quality control to see what your are "attached to" and just what is "out there" related to your name, affiliation, etc.