Seminars

Content normally includes topics such as:

• Definitions

• Regulatory context

• Art Therapy profession

• Core principles

• Meet the ancestors

  • Art?

  • Art Therapy pioneers: USA, UK, Northern Ireland

• Past, present, future

Content normally includes topics such as:

• Introduction to Art Psychotherapy or Counselling

• Definitions & regulatory / registration context

• Biopsychosocial paradigm

• Trauma-informed practice

• Pluralistic practice

• Relational foundation. therapeutic alliance, co-production

• Core principles, skills & process

  • Assessment, contracting, formulation, reviews, endings

  • Risk management, record keeping, own art, using supervision

• Art materials, media

• Key theories

  • Psychodynamic, Humanistic

Content normally includes topics such as:

• Developments in Art Psychotherapy or Counselling

• Diverse settings in art therapy

• Practice across the Stepped Care model

• Neurosequential Model of Processing, neuroscience

• Expressive Therapies Continuum

• Eco-practice

• Online practice

• Social action, social justice

• Group work

• Key theories

  • Object relations, CBT, Transpersonal, Attachment, Mentalization

Content normally includes topics such as:

• Diversity

• Biopsychosocial paradigm

• Diversity frameworks, e.g. ADDRESSING framework:

  • E.g. age & developmental, disability, religion / spirituality, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation, heritage, national identity, gender

• Intersectionality

• Systems theories

• Non-discrimination, anti-oppression, language, power

• Ritual, traditions

• Social justice

• Cultural competency, cultural humility

Content normally includes topics such as:

• Quality Assurance & Clinical Governance

• Treasure seeking, 'golden understanding'

• Systematic Routine Evaluation of Practice

• Clinical Audit

• Partnership working & Co-production

• Collective Leadership

• Information Governance

• Risk Management

• Education and Training: Career-long Learning

Content normally includes topics such as:

• Research

• Reflexive practitioner

• Research ethics, integrity & governance

• Dissertation / thesis

• Identifying a topic

• Research design: research question, hypothesis

• Research process:

  • Introduction

  • Literature review

  • Methodology: mixed, qualitative, quantitative, art-based

  • Methods

  • Data collection

  • Analysis of findings

  • Discussion

  • References

• Research dissemination