ABSTRACT
I have pointed out the importance to BAAT of art therapy training being situated within an education framework in order that art therapy could be viewed primarily as educational and not as paramedical (1963–75 approximately) and that art therapists could be provided with a career and salary structure equivalent to those of adult education tutors. BAAT therefore supported linking art therapy training with that of art teachers, and two of these initiatives were eventually recognised by BAAT as qualifying art therapists.
