Art Therapy in Practice

Catalog description

This 10-week experiential course invites students to apply practical approaches to clinical issues through the use of art therapy. To gain insight into the universal nature of art, creativity, and how trauma & loss, conflict/resolution and clinical issues can be accessed, assessed and healed through the use of art and psychotherapy. Through the use of role- play, clinical and theoretical demonstrations, art directives/interventions, readings, lectures, written essays/projects, students will learn practical and clinical approaches of the therapeutic alliance within the perspective of Art Therapy. Discussion and exploration of this orientation and how it relates to or supports other theoretical perspectives may be an additional part of the coursework and written assignments.