During the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, art therapists used new methods, materials, and techniques to help address the needs of community members. The practices that emerged from art therapy while adjusting to the pandemic, created new perspectives and ways to re-theorize and re-energize community art therapy engagement. As the acute stage of the pandemic passes, the art therapy profession can take this opportunity to pause and explore the new practice-based knowledge and techniques developed “on the ground” during the acute crisis and canonize them by connecting practice to the growing body of theory on social art therapy. This paper will help conceptualize, articulate, and thus demystify these developments, anchoring them to social theories of community. This paper will integrate setting, role of art, role of art therapists, ethical considerations, and evaluation, into social theories, describing specific features of a new theory of social art therapy in the context of community crises.

在 COVID-19 大流行危机期间，艺术治疗师使用新的方法、材料和技术来帮助满足社区成员的需求。在适应大流行的同时，艺术治疗中出现的实践创造了新的视角和方法，以重新理论化和重新激发社区艺术治疗的参与。随着大流行的严重阶段过去，艺术治疗专业可以借此机会停下来探索在严重危机期间“实地”开发的新的基于实践的知识和技术，并通过将实践与不断增长的群体联系起来将它们经典化。社会艺术治疗理论。本文将有助于概念化、阐明这些发展，从而揭开这些发展的神秘面纱，将它们锚定在社区的社会理论中。本文将整合背景、艺术的作用、艺术治疗师的作用、伦理考虑、