Welcome to the 22nd WCP Congress Program Scheduling

Various forms of medico-rehabilitation practice based on the use of visual activity differ in the features of artists accompanying (as participants of art therapy or outsider artists), organization of the environment classes, provide technical equipment, artistic and other materials, attract necessary resources. In some cases, this is the achievement of a certain artistic and creative result, the formation of an original artistic style, the support of "artistic identity", the public recognition of an outsider artist. In others, it`s mainly the achievement of therapeutic and prophylactic effects and social rehabilitation. It`s also obvious that the solution of these problems can be interconnected. As part of the symposium it is important to discuss models of clinical and social art therapy, accompanying patients in the process of their creative classes in inpatient and outpatient settings, as well as inclusive and socio-cultural projects. The symposium involves the following tasks: 1. Joint analysis of the current situation in the field of clinical and social art therapy, social initiatives related to supporting the creativity of people with mental disorders, outsider artists. 2. Formulation of conceptual positions and methodological recommendations related to the support of the creative activity of persons with mental disorders. 3. Discussing the possibilities of building a model of a single and continuous cycle of supporting the creative activity of people with clinical and psychosocial problems. 4. Raising the question of the need for interdisciplinary research of the accumulated artistic material, its institutionalization, legitimation and museumification.