The Context -- Framework for Freedom -- Conditions for Creative Growth -- 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 -- 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 -- The Community -- Helping the "Normal" Child Through Art -- Helping the Handicapped Child Through Art -- Helping Parents Through Art and Play -- 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 -- A Cautionary Note