Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the program, students should be able to:
- understand and articulate principles, terms of reference, and theory of Expressive Arts Therapy and apply them to therapeutic practice.
- demonstrate empathic and aesthetic sensitivity, and an increased range and fluidity of exploration and expression.
- form a personal and professional identity and mode of working as an Expressive Arts Therapist, capable of providing therapeutic practice in private or service based contexts.
- engage imagination and work with different art forms in an integrative way.
- bring forth, explore, and shape inner realms such as feelings, events, thought, images, and metaphors.
- facilitate a space where the creative, that which is unique, personal, sensitive and needs encouragement in the individual, feels safe to emerge.
- outline and abide by professional guidelines for ethical practice and therapeutic competency.