[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-592312-105":59,"doc-detail-592312-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":123,"head_meta":125,"extra_data":127,"updated_unix":129},105,"en","minding-our-ps-through-qs-addressing-possibilities-and-precautions-of-community-work-through-new-questions","Minding Our P’s Through Q’s - Addressing Possibilities and Precautions of Community Work Through New Questions","","Art therapists increasingly provide art-making experiences in community-based settings outside traditional mental health programs, where ethical safeguards such as privacy, consent to treatment, role clarity, and therapeutic goal-setting may not be automatically supported. Drawing on self-reflective questions from a 2008 gathering, the viewpoint examines how practitioners can define purposes, communicate expectations, and navigate power dynamics when public sharing is expected.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":35,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/healthcare/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/minding-our-ps-through-qs-addressing-possibilities-and-precautions-of-community-work-through-new-questions/592312/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/minding-our-ps-through-qs-addressing-possibilities-and-precautions-of-community-work-through-new-questions/592312.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"McGucket","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-10","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":81},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"Why can ethical principles be harder to apply in community-based art therapy settings?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"Community settings may lack formal policies for privacy, consent, roles, and therapeutic goal-setting. This requires therapists to create and clarify ethical processes through other means.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How does the viewpoint relate the idiom “mind our P’s and Q’s” to art therapy practice?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"It uses the idiom as a framework: mind possibilities and precautions through asking key questions that support self-reflection and ethical decision-making.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What challenge arises when youth express anxiety, grief, or trauma in a non-clinical after-school program?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"The therapist must determine the role and boundaries of expressive art activities when the setting is not designed for mental health treatment, including responsibilities around purpose and parameters.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},592312,1792656789,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":34,"category_name":35,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":81,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":19,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":52,"preview_page_count":4},1236954412713,"https://us-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_29158cc5080c5b710cf443261637dec0","viewpoint  \nMinding Our P’s Through Q’s: Addressing Possibilities and Precautions of Community Work Through New Questions  \nDana Elmendorf, Pittsburgh, PA  \nAbstract  \nArt therapists increasingly work outside traditional mental health treatment programs and facilitate art-making experiences within community-based settings. Although traditional mental health facilities provide frameworks for meeting ethical principles such as privacy, roles, consent to treatment, and setting therapeutic goals, community-based art therapists may require a different process for ensuring that ethical principles are met. A series of self-reflective questions posed by community-based practitioners at a 2008 gathering sponsored by the Maryland Institute College of Art offers valuable guidance to art therapists working outside traditional therapeutic settings.  \nIntroduction  \nImagine an art therapist employed at a neighborhood after-school program who is tasked with creating an art therapy group. The youth participating in the program are not there for mental health treatment. More important, clinical therapy services are not part of the established goals of the program. The goals instead relate to offering the youth expressive opportunities that foster a sense of visibility and engagement as members of their community. Although it may be easy to imagine the potential of expressive art activities in such a program, what might be the role of the art therapist if the youth begin to express anxiety, grief, or even traumatic issues through their art? How might art therapists define the purpose and parameters of the expressive activities? Furthermore, what are the responsibilities of an art therapist when working in a program where public sharing of the artwork is the expectation, rather than being a private communication between a client and a therapist? In other words, how do art and therapy go together when the setting isn’t therapy?  \nEditor’s note: Dana Elmendorf, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, is an Assistant Professor of Art Therapy at Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA. Correspondence concerning this viewpoint maybe addressed to the author at [elmendorf@setonhill.edu](elmendorf@setonhill.edu).  \nDefining Roles and Responsibilities  \nThe American English idiom that reminds us to “mind our P’s and Q’s” offers a useful framework for considering the possible thinking process of an art therapist working in such a community setting. Just as the idiom encourages us to be very careful or mindful, an art therapist working in a setting outside of a formal mental health program can be mindful of the historical contract that art therapists form with their clientele, and learn to make this contract with careful consideration and in explicit detail. Kapitan (2008b) wrote about the basis of integrity with which art therapists work as they form relationships with clients. This work includes responsibilities and challenges founded on consent, the rejection of coercion, and the awareness of power dynamics. An art therapist working in a mental health setting, for example, honors this agreement by contracting with the client to consent to treatment. Although many ethical dilemmas do not fit neatly into the American Art Therapy Association’s Ethical Principles for Art Therapists nor the Code of Professional Practice of the Art Therapy Credentials Board, Moon (2006) noted the importance of a verbal discussion of expectations and limitations of the art therapy process when certain ethical principles are not made explicit in community settings. However, how does one follow the principles of informed consent in settings that don’t utilize consent contracts? How does one verbally convey the goals of the art therapy process? In addition, do art therapists have a right to engage people in telling their personal stories through art in a relationship where privacy, roles, and responsibilities are not clearly defined?  \nSystematically asking oneself key questions can engage a community-ba","cbCaioarWzzxXtza","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioarWzzxXtza","pdf",107045,"English","# Introduction\n## Defining Roles and Responsibilities\n## New Settings, New Goals","[{\"question\":\"Why can ethical principles be harder to apply in community-based art therapy settings?\",\"answer\":\"Community settings may lack formal policies for privacy, consent, roles, and therapeutic goal-setting. This requires therapists to create and clarify ethical processes through other means.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the viewpoint relate the idiom “mind our P’s and Q’s” to art therapy practice?\",\"answer\":\"It uses the idiom as a framework: mind possibilities and precautions through asking key questions that support self-reflection and ethical decision-making.\"},{\"question\":\"What challenge arises when youth express anxiety, grief, or trauma in a non-clinical after-school program?\",\"answer\":\"The therapist must determine the role and boundaries of expressive art activities when the setting is not designed for mental health treatment, including responsibilities around purpose and parameters.\"}]","Minding Our P’s Through Q’s - Addressing Possibilities and Precautions of Community Work Through New Questions | PDF",1792074291]