Bachelor of Arts Therapy
Bachelor of Arts Therapy
Arts therapy is effective in working with diverse groups of clients of all age groups, abilities, and with a range of issues; it is particularly effective in engaging people who may struggle to participate in more traditional ‘talking therapies’ such as children, adolescents, people suffering from trauma, those with disabilities,…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Arts therapy is effective in working with diverse groups of clients of all age groups, abilities, and with a range of issues; it is particularly effective in engaging people who may struggle to participate in more traditional ‘talking therapies’ such as children, adolescents, people suffering from trauma, those with disabilities, language difficulties or those from diverse cultural backgrounds.
This course is recognised in the Australian Qualification Framework.
Course Overview
The Bachelor of Arts Therapy is designed to provide graduates with a broad body of knowledge relating to the field of arts therapy, with emphasis on the underlying principles and concepts of art making processes. A feature of the course is the focus on experiential small-group learning that supports students to develop and practice their skills and knowledge in a safe supportive environment.
This qualification is recognized in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF)
Course Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Demonstrate broad and coherent knowledge of critical psychological, social and transpersonal perspectives, relational, moment-to-moment experiencing, and heuristic phenomenology to inform arts therapy practice.
Demonstrate broad and coherent knowledge and application of a range of arts modes, materials, art making processes and emergent forms.
Demonstrate critical understanding of ethical issues, cultural and social diversity, and professional responsibility in the context of safe, ethical and reflexive practice.
Engage with and apply multimodal arts media within an intermodal, attuned, empathic, authentic and ‘presence-centred’ therapeutic relationship.
Demonstrate support for clients to deepen and represent their emotional experiencing using visual arts, sculpture, clay, dance-movement, poetry, expressive therapies, and music expression.
Demonstrate emotional and psychological attunement, attentiveness, responsiveness and ‘deep listening’ to artistic forms that emerge from the psyche and internal experiencing of clients during art making.
Critically review, analyse and integrate multimodal and intermodal arts processes to connect clients to what they are experiencing in their body in the here-and-now, utilising body sensation, body awareness and ‘felt- sense’ to release emotional patterns and transform emotional pain.
Establish respectful, ethical and collaborative relationships with clients and multidisciplinary teams, and communicate a clear and coherent assessment of presenting issues and therapeutic progress.
Reflect on their professional practice, and demonstrate responsibility, accountability and a commitment to continuous learning, personal creative practice and active citizenship.
Career Opportunities
The Bachelor of Arts Therapy prepares graduates for an exciting career as arts therapists with the skills to attend to the needs of clients in a variety of professional settings, ranging from mental health organisations and agencies to private practice.
Professional Recognition
Graduates may be eligible for tier membership of the arts therapy professional body in Australia, ANZACATA.
REQUIREMENTS
International applicants must have an English Language Proficiency Score of IELTS 6.5 (Academic) with Speaking no less than 6.5; Listening, Writing and Reading no less than 6.0, or equivalent.
Our admission pathway options include:
Applicants with Recent Senior Secondary Education (within the past two years) must have completed an Australian Senior Secondary Certificate (Year 12). For guaranteed entry applicants must have achieved an ATAR of 65 (or equivalent).
Applicants with Vocational Education and Training (VET) study must have completed a vocational qualification at Diploma level or higher
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