All students commence their placement, and prepare for the second of their two major writing assignments, the Case Study of 8,000 to 10,000 words. Its purpose is to examine and communicate a student’s work on placements in depth and can concern one or more individuals, or a group, and is expected to include pictorial and photographic material. It will be in a similar format to Project Research and addresses some of the same issues, in this instance the case study as a genre of writing spanning the ‘scientific paper’, biography, narrative and story telling. An understanding of this, familiarity with such literature, and ability to use it both as a reflection on their own work and communicating it in the public domain, is vital for art psychotherapists and their profession. As in psychotherapy the case study is one of the primary research methods of art psychotherapy. In its completed form the Case Study, like the Project, will be assessed against the criteria for published work.