Develops students' skills toward integrating theory, processes, and dynamics of group work to form and facilitate ethically and culturally responsive art therapy groups. Principles of group purpose, design, and goal setting as related to the population served will be a focus. Group dynamics, therapeutic factors, member roles, leadership, group composition including selection criteria, the essential communicative role of art within the group, and time-limited, as well as long term group processes will be explored. Course will include instructor facilitated experiential art therapy group practices integrating theory and practice, leading to students then taking on leadership roles in class to practice running groups and further examine group dynamics. Prerequisites: ATP-509, Process: Art Therapy and Counseling Techniques and enrolled in the Graduate Art Therapy Program. [ 3 credits ]