ABSTRACT
The community mental health team is multi-disciplinary and includes psychiatrists, community psychiatric nurses, mental health workers, psychologists, liaison workers with other agencies, a part-time art therapist and often a trainee art therapist. Several staff are from minority ethnic groups, e.g. Europe, Asia, Africa, black British, with knowledge of many languages. Clients are visited at home or in counselling rooms at the team base. The art therapy room doubles as a multi-purpose room when art therapy is not taking place. This chapter discusses a series of six sessions around the theme of moving on', co-facilitated by Marian and Lynne, and helped by Nazlin, who acted as translator and role model. Each session ran for two hours, including a short period for coffee or tea at the beginning and a shared lunch together at the end. Art materials were provided in the art therapy room: paper, paints, brushes, pencils, pastels, oil and wax crayons and coloured felt-tip pens.
