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Reflect on how your interest in creativity and the creative arts has grown over the years. What art forms most attracted you 10 years ago? Five years ago? How has your taste in the arts broadened or deepened since you first became interested in them? What would you select as your three favorite art forms today (e.g., music, painting, photography, dance and movement, drama)?

Paralleling the growth of professional associations was a surge in the publication of periodicals dealing with the arts in counseling, such as The Arts in Psychotherapy. Likewise, the 1980s heralded an increased effort to share knowledge among mental health professionals interested in the arts. The National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations (NCCATA) was established in 1979. It held interdisciplinary conferences for arts therapists. The emergence of NC-CATA signaled a formal and systematic attempt to foster communication between creative arts therapies groups and individuals interested in these groups. NCCATA also focused on being an inclusive voice to achieve legislative recognition for creative arts therapists (Bonny, 1997).

Then in 2004, a new association within the counseling world, specifically in the American Counseling Association, was formed. It was the Association for Creativity in Counseling. Led by Dr. Thelma Duffey at the University of Texas at San Antonio, the association quickly attracted members and began publishing the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health.