PhotoTherapy
techniques are therapy practices that use people's own personal snapshots, family albums, and photos taken by others (and the feelings, memories, thoughts, beliefs, and values that these pictures evoke) -- during therapy or counseling sessions conducted by trained mental health professionals -- to deepen and improve personal insight, understanding, and relationships with others, in ways that words alone cannot do. (Photo Art Therapy is a specialized category of these techniques practiced only by those with additional training in Art Therapy).
Therapeutic Photography techniques are photographic practices used in situations where the skills of a trained therapist or counselor are not required, done by people themselves to increase their own insight and self-knowledge, activate positive social change, strengthen communities, improve intercultural relations and conflict-resolution, bring attention to issues of social justice, deepen visual literacy, enhance education, expand qualitative research methodologies, and produce other kinds of healing or learning.
*Not
limited to "paper photographs",
these techniques can be used with any photographic
imagery,
including digital/electronic photo formats,
cell phone pictures, videos, DVDs, films -- as well as technologies
yet to be invented...
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