Work (MSW) at Catholic University. She was able to graduate in one year from Catholic University due to her vast amount of publications. While at NIMH, she taught art therapy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences and at Montgomery Community College. Wadeson left NIMH, expanded her private practice, and began work on her Ph.D. at Union Institute. Her dissertation, "Art Psychotherapy," was one of the first books in the field, and has currently sold 24,000 copies. In 1978, Wadeson began teaching at the University of Houston, where she became director of its Art Therapy Graduate Program. In 1980, she was recruited by the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). where she directed the Art Therapy Graduate Program for 23 years. One of Wadeson's biggest contributions at the University of Illinois at Chicago was the “Annual Summer Institute”, which was held at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. This program continued for 20 years. Wadeson developed and currently directs the art therapy program at Northwestern University. American Art Therapy Association Wadeson held various positions in the American Art Therapy Association (AATA), including publications chair, newsletter editor, research chair, honors chair, ethics chair, and status of women chair, among others, and has been the associate editor of the Art Therapy Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. Wadeson was awarded the art therapy profession's highest honor in 1992, honorary life membership (HLM) from the American Art Therapy Association. Approach Wadeson was known for her eclectic approach to art therapy. She believed it is important for art therapists to have a comprehensive knowledge of various human development and sociological theories to be most effective in working in diverse settings. She stated that an eclectic approach allows the therapist to be open to possibilities and to use methods that best suit individual clients, groups, and communities. Although she was eclectic, she also described herself as humanistic, existential, and phenomenological. Nevertheless, she believed it is important for art therapists to develop their own approach based on their life experience. Presentations In 2012 Wadeson presented on her book "Journaling Cancer in Words and images" at Emporia State University's Art Therapy Discovery Day. Publications Wadeson was giving presentations, workshops, and book signings throughout the US and in Europe, up to her recent passing, in connection with her most recent book, "Journaling Cancer in Words and Images, Caught in the Clutch of the