ABSTRACT
The creative therapist is adept at integrating a wide body of information in a relatively short period of time and working collaboratively with clients to develop a flexible plan for accomplishing both short-term and long-term goals. Creativity requires finding the essentiality of the other and creating an ethical dialogue that brings out the most authentic and ethical behavior in the therapist and clients. Creativity means approaching each client from a new perspective, looking at their abilities and disabilities as resources for change. The creative process entails an active and often intense interaction with clients that includes the therapist's training, personality characteristics, and cognitive style and capacities; client's personalities, intellectual abilities, and presenting problems; contextual factors. The author believe that creative therapists also appreciate and seek to understand that change happens, both intrapersonally and interpersonally, on a variety of levels, including the somatic/biological, cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social/relational, volitional/motivational, moral, and spiritual.
