Art-based Counseling with Children and Adolescents

Catalog description

This course provides an examination of the psychological, psychosocial, cultural, cognitive, creative, and spiritual development of children from birth through adolescence to age nineteen as it relates to the practice of creative arts counseling. Through readings, discussion, practice sessions with children, experiential exercises, and assignments, students focus on understanding development and assessment, including art-based counseling assessments, attachment theory, approaches to treatment, cultural competency, and the practice of creative arts counseling with a variety of child and adolescent populations. TAT students. Prerequisite: CMHC 605.