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Art Therapy for Children and Adults: Virtual toolkit

£249.00 + VAT

The positive transformative benefits of Art Therapy are rapidly becoming well known in educational and early year settings. This healing practice is being used to help children and adults understand the creative process of self-expression, improve overall wellbeing and reduce mental health issues.

The Art Therapy for Children and Adults virtual toolkit is an on demand module based course perfect for those seeking to understand the use of art therapy for children. This course will also explore how art can be used to help individuals explore and express emotions, communicate, and build self-awareness and self-esteem.

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You will learn:

  • Learn how art-making can contribute to your self-care and wellness
  • Understand and appreciate the use of art in art therapy and develop a crystal-clear idea of what art therapy really is
  • Gain an overview of the tools and methods that are used during art therapy sessions
  • Learn how to plan and facilitate therapeutic art sessions that include engaging the individual to freely express using the art materials
  • Understand the long-term lasting impact of art therapy on individuals
  • Understand the requirements of art therapy as a profession

Agenda

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  • Module 1:

  • WHAT IS ART THERAPY?

  • Definition and benefits of art therapy
  • Difference between art therapy and other art related programmes
  • Art therapy spectrum and who is art therapy for?
  • Tools and methods used in art therapy
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  • Module 2:

  • KEY CONCEPTS AND ETHICS OF ART THERAPY

  • Unique difference of art therapy in comparison to other modalities
  • Triangular relationship & Psychodynamic framework
  • Expressive Therapies Continuum Model
  • Ethical practices of Art Therapy
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  • Module 3:

  • CHALLENGES IN ART THERAPY

  • Purpose of setting boundaries (at organization and at personal levels)
  • Stigma against mental wellness
  • Misconceptions of Art Therapy
  • Art therapy space
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  • Module 4:

  • BECOMING AN ART THERAPIST

  • Requirements and qualifications needed to become a professional art therapist
  • Accreditation art therapy boards and regulations
  • Job opportunities in the field of art therapy
  • Art therapist role and its importance

Speakers

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Dr Hayley Berman

Dr Hayley Berman

Psychotherapist

Dr Hayley Berman
is an art psychotherapist with specialist expertise in contexts of trauma and social and political upheaval. She has a PhD in psycho-social studies.
Hayley has worked with individuals, groups and businesses in the UK, South Africa and several other countries. Her thinking is informed by applied group analytic and psychoanalytic theory. She has a private art psychotherapy practice, supervises mental health professionals and consults to organisations.

She is a member of:

The Group Analytic Society
The British Association of Art Therapy
The Public Health Connect Strategic Group (UK)
The South African Psychoanalytic Confederation
The Global Liaison for the European Confederation of Arts Therapies Educators
The Institute of Group Analysis
Hayley is also a supervisor and examiner for Public Health, Psychosocial Studies and Visual Arts doctoral students, a senior lecturer at Hertfordshire University, and a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg. She is the founding Director of Lefika La Phodiso (www.lefikalaphodiso.co.za) the first psychoanalytically informed art therapy training in South Africa.

Some of her publications are available on:
https://researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/hayley-berman(365831c2-78dc-40bd-8a7d-59b8c5bdffb9).html

She can be contacted via hayleyberman@gmail.com

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