Welsh Arts Therapies Advisory Forum Records
Archive of the All Wales Network Committee for Arts Therapies Professions (later Welsh Arts Therapies Advisory Forum (WATAF)),1988-2012, including correspondence, agenda and minutes of meetings, and related papers.
Digital archive of WATAF (1 disk), consisting of records, 2004-2021, relating to meetings, and supplementary material donated in January 2022.
Welsh Arts Therapies Advisory Forum
Minutes, correspondence and associated papers
Includes a questionnaire, 1994, sent out to all of the art therapists in Wales with a summary of the questions and answers provided, and a leaflet, 'Beth yw therapïau celfyddydol?/What are the art therapies?', 1992.
Minutes, correspondence and associated papers
Papers relating to the proposed changes to be put to the Professional Associations, April 1995 (aims); Poetry in healing project (Wales), 1995; Meeting the challenges – Arts Therapies provision in a climate of change, 1997; Borderlands/Ffiniau, a conference to creatively explore familiar and unfamiliar ground in and through arts therapies, 1997; news sheets, 1998; Therapists network day, Llandrindod Wells, 1998; and Gudrun M. Jones, ‘Art therapy in palliative cancer care in a rural community’.
Minutes, correspondence and associated papers
Includes leaflets: Introducing art therapy in Wales/Cyflwyno therapi celf yng Nghymru; The All Wales Network Committee for Arts Therapies Professions/Pwyllgor Rhwydwaith Cymru dros Broffesiynnau; and Beth yw Therapïau celfyddydol?/ What are the arts therapies?
Minutes, correspondence and associated papers
Minutes of AWNCATP/WATAF (NHS committee minutes), 2005-2012; terms of reference and constitution of the Wales Committee for Health Care Professions (NHS), 1997; ‘Arts in health and well being. An action plan for Wales’ developed with Arts Council of Wales and Welsh Assembly; arts therapists in NHS Wales, 2003; graph of art therapies establishments in NHS Wales by arts modality, 2003; examples of compliment slips and headed paper for The arts therapies All Wales Network=Therapïau y celfyddydau Pwyllgor Rhwydwaith Cymru Gyfan.
Minutes, correspondence and associated papers
Includes the minutes of the inaugural meeting of the Art, Drama and Music therapists in Wales, 15 October 1988, at the Bay Hotel, Aberystwyth, together with its aims and constitution, 1988.
Minutes, correspondence and associated papers
Papers relating to the conference ‘Siarad yn anweledig/Speaking the invisible’, on language, culture and healthcare at Theatr Felinfach, 2000; poster for a presentation, ‘Therapi celf mewn seiciatryddiaeth fforensig/Art therapy in forensic psychiatry’, Aberystwyth, 2001; dramatherapy and dramatherapists in Wales; and seminars organised.
Minutes, correspondence and associated papers, 1988-2012, relating to the administration of the forum.