ABSTRACT
Practicing art therapy in Chile requires a great deal of flexibility, creativity, and sensitivity towards the environment. There are graduate training programs in art therapy, but, in Chile, training in psychotherapy—and art therapy is considered a form of psychotherapy—is geared toward professionals in psychiatry and psychology. The accreditation of training programs in psychotherapy is regulated by the National Commission on Accreditation in Clinical Psychology. The Association established a code of professional ethics based upon those of the American and Spanish art therapy associations, emphasizing its vision of art therapy as a form of psychotherapy. As a new treatment alternative, art therapy is fertile for the emergence of an ethical dilemma in the health field known as “furor curandis”. The art therapy students were inserted into a large social project aimed at promoting the resilience of, and the parental link between, young children and mothers who had been deprived of their freedom.
