Course Objectives

This course will help participants:

• Understand the difference between “art in therapy” and “art as therapy”
• Understand normal artistic development in children
• Greater understanding and more purposeful use of the therapeutic space, different medium, the creative process for therapeutic intervention

 Course Contents

• Tenants of Art Therapy
• A brief history
• Artistic development in children
• An overview of Art Therapy with a child through a case presentation
• Art materials and their therapeutic properties
• Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC)

 Who Should Attend

Social workers, psychologists, counsellors, teachers and other social service practitioners working with children.

Award

Participants who meet 75% class attendance will be awarded a Certificate of Accomplishment by the Academy of Human Development.