Part I: The context -- Framework for freedom -- Conditions for creative growth -- Part II: The individual -- Understanding development through art -- A diagnostic art interview -- Decoding symbolic messages -- A picture of the therapeutic process -- Some case studies -- Ways to facilitate expression -- Art therapy with the handicapped child -- Part III: The family and the group -- A family art evaluation -- Family art therapy -- Mother-Child art therapy group -- Group art therapy -- Multi-modality group therapy -- Case illustration: understanding and helping -- Part IV: The community -- Helping the "normal" child through art -- Helping the handicapped child through art -- Helping parents through art and play -- Part V: General issues -- Why and how the art therapist helps -- How the art therapist learns through research -- What child art therapy is and who can do it
