Expressive Arts: Painting, Poetry, And Dreams

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This course provides an introduction to the creative process and the use of that process in development of self-awareness and empathetic relationships with self and clients in the counseling relationship. The course will include definitions, historical roots, theoretical underpinnings, and basic elements of the field of art therapy. Course topics will include an examination of the major contributors in that field, what art therapists do, where art therapists work, how art-making can be used to affect behavior, emotional, and psychological changes, and how art therapy can be used in the context of various psychological approaches. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. View Class Schedule