Professional Certificate in Art Therapy Skills (CPD Accredited)



CPD Accredited Programme

IACPlogoProfessional Certificate in Art ******* Skills 

 

Programme Provider

Dublin Art Therapy College IACPlogoIACPlogoIACPlogo

Venue

1a Village Green, Tallaght, Dublin.  D24 EP94

Contact Details

Jean ******               Email:  dublinarttherapystudio@gmail.com

                                  Phone: 086 2432930

Duration: One weekend a month

10.00am –5.**** = 120 CPD hours (20 training **** face to face)

Start Date

30 & 31 September 2023

Programme Fee

€3,500 (€500 ******* + payment plan) 

*** Programme is suitable for:

 

 

 

***** requirements: 

 

This ********* is specifically designed to enhance the practice of Counsellors and Psychotherapists by ****** Art ******* as a tool in their clinical practice.  It is also a steppingstone to Year 4 ** the BA (Hons) in *********** Counselling and Art Therapy programme (Level 8) ** *** in Creative Art Psychotherapy (Working **** ***** People).

 

Minimum Level 7/8 Counselling/Psychotherapy training ** equivalent with sustained clinical practice experience.

 

There ** no requirement *** previous experience of art or art therapy training.

***** Requirements

30 hours of Art Therapy integrated into clinical practice

10 hours ** Personal Therapy 

  

 

Date 

Timetable

4 x Written Assignments

 

1

30Sept+***** 2023

Foundation 

 

 

2

21+22 Oct 2023

Foundation 

1. Journal Assignment

 

3

25+26 Nov 2023

Neurobiology (1)                                  

N Rogers + Ways + A/T Practice + Self-Supervision

 

 

4

2+3 Dec 2023

Approaches ** Art Therapy

Neurobiology (2)                                  

 

 

5

13+14 Jan 2024

GROUP Approaches Pres + Clinical Supervision

Book Review (1) 

********** Presentation

Practical

 

6

27+28 Jan 2024

GROUP *** (Intro) + Book Review (2)

Case ***** + Application to Clinical Practice

2. Neurobiology Assignment

 

7

17+18 Feb 2024

**** Rev GROUP  Presentations (*** 3 groups)

(****** Health Project + Jungian Focus 

(Application to Clinical Practice

Book Review Presentation

Practical

 

8

9+10 Mar 2024

Art Therapy FISHBOWL 2***** Clinical Practice

Case Study Presentations (not assessed)

3. Book Review Assignment

 

9

23+24 Mar 2024

Mental Health Project ************* (Practical)

Closed Studio Practice

 

 

10

20+21 ***** 2024

GROUP Led Presentation (Practical)

Programme end tutorials + Studio Review

4. Mental Health Assignment

***** Led Presentation

 






  • ** is ******** but dates may be changed.

 

‘Art Therapy *** ** used effectively 

** every level of human development’ 

(Silverstone 2009) 

 

 

Education Objectives

To upskill Counsellors/Psychotherapists and Clinical *********** or equivalent in the integration of Art ******* into their clinical practice.  To ****** RPL entry to Level 8 (Year 4) of the Dublin Art Therapy College BA (Hons) in Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy (Accredited SETU + IACP). To enable RPL to MSc in Creative Art Psychotherapy (******* with Young People) SETU Accredited.

Credentials of ********* Facilitators

Programme facilitators hold Counselling/Psychotherapy/Art ******* training to at least Level 8 *** are versed in ************ on the ****** *** Therapy BA (Hons) in Integrative Counselling and Art Therapy Programme (Level 8) 

******** Outcomes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Programme Content

Assessment Criteria:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  • An in-depth *********** of *** Art Therapy processes experienced
  • An understanding of the therapeutic nature of Art Therapy
  • Integrative group dynamic processes
  • Experience of individual *** group Art Therapy exercises
  • Exploring the creative connection to self
  • Learn to trust the process 
  • Enhanced personal and professional reflection 
  • Experience of reframing thoughts and practices
  • Integration of programme content **** everyday life
  • Make friends with your own innate creativity
  • ************* that the creative process has an intelligence that *** be trusted, *** the **** ** creation is the ability to work with it
  • Creating symbolic representations
  • Distilling the ******* of ******** thoughts and feelings
  • Integrate Art Therapy skills with various therapeutic approaches
  • Understand *** apply Neuroscience ** self and clinical practice
  • Group work applied ** theoretical concepts and approaches
  • Proficient in facilitating an art therapy group
  • Clinical proficiency and supervision
  • Completion of a mental health project
  • Integrating the concepts ** Open and Closed ****** Practice
  • ******* self-awareness
  • Art Therapy as a tool for self-supervision/self-care
  • Become comfortable using art as a therapeutic *** ********** tool
  • Experiential learning
  • Integrative Approaches ** Art Therapy and Neurobiology applied to Counselling and *** Therapy skills practice.
  • Group facilitation experience
  • Book Review
  • Case Study
  • Mental Health Project – Jungian Aspect.
  • Studio Practice
  • Integrating Art Therapy as a tool for personal and professional self-awareness
  • Application of *** Therapy in the clinical practice

 

  • 4 x written assignments
  • 5 x practical and experiential exercises
  • Ongoing participation in skills, feedback **** peers, self and facilitators.
  • Learning Journal x 1 (experiential and written).
  • Neurobiology Assignment (written).
  • Book Review ********** (practical and written).
  • Mental Health Project (practical and written).
  • ***** Led ************ (************ and practical).
  • Skills Practice and feedback (practical).
  • Studio review (************ and practical).
  • Evidence ** the use of Art Therapy Skills within 30 hours of art ******* clinical practice.
  • 30 hours of clinical practice signed off by your clinical supervisor .
  • ***** assessment by self and ***** to be validated by programme facilitators.

Learning/Teaching Methods

Series ** one/two-day workshops using lectures, ************ exercises, tutorials, self-supervision and clinical supervisory techniques.

Educational Content

Art Psychotherapy Training to Level 7 & 8

Programme Outcomes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This programme specifically ******** the practical application of art therapy as a therapeutic intervention and is experiential ** nature.  ** facilitates the *********** of professional *** ******* skills supported by theoretical underpinning. 
 
*** programme integrates *********** skills with art therapy practice.  Successfully completing the course enables access ** the second year of the BA Hons in Integrative Counselling and Art Therapy.
 

To help clients to ****** integrated, we need to promote and integrate the experience of verbal and non-verbal approaches *** encourage them ** be in tune with both rational thinking and intuitive knowing.  Using Art as an integrative part of your **** practice will bring ***** **** non-verbal wisdom.

Programme Evaluation

Written assignments *** assessed as per Level 7 assessment criteria.  A pass is the ******* requirement for successful completion.  As well as theoretical assessment students **** be monitored for application of theory to practice and demonstration of the lived Humanistic experience ** *** *********** process.  Students will ** ***** every opportunity to resubmit an assignment where the initial submitted assignment falls short of the assessment criteria.

First Class Honours:

Distinction             (1:1)

70-100%

****** Class Honours Grade 1: 

Merit, Grade 1       (2:1)          

60-69%

****** Class Honours Grade 2:         

Merit, Grade 2       (2:2)

50-59%

Pass:

Pass

40-49%

Resubmit:  An assignment not reaching the above grading system percentage **** receive a ******* to Resubmit.  A Pass grade will be awarded for the successful resubmission of an assignment.       

 

Each assignment has specific criteria outlined in a Programme Handbook.

 

Attendance:  100% attendance expected, 85% attendance required.

 

Supervisory Evidence of 30 hours of Art Therapy integrated into clinical practice.

Personal ********* Evidence of 10 hours of Personal Therapy.

 

 

‘Creativity ** ************ having fun’ (Einstein)

‘The ******** ********* of our time ** to take our own path ** individuation under our feet because if we do not, no one will do it for us and we will be forever undone.  To live one’s own life is to take these steps of creativity’. (Ruff, 1988) ** Swan-Foster, N. 2018 Jungian Art Therapy, A Guide to Dreams, Images, and Analytical Psychology, Routledge, New York.

 

 

 

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