Diploma of Arts Therapy
Diploma of Arts Therapy
The Diploma of Arts Therapy is a higher education diploma where you will study the significance of arts marking process and symbolic expression for healing outcomes. Arts therapy is effective in engaging people who may struggle to participate in more traditional ‘talking therapies’ such as children, adolescents, people suffering from…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Diploma of Arts Therapy is a higher education diploma where you will study the significance of arts marking process and symbolic expression for healing outcomes. Arts therapy is 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 Diploma of Arts Therapy is a higher education diploma where you will study the significance of arts marking process and symbolic expression for healing outcomes. Arts therapy is 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 other cultural backgrounds.
Expressing oneself through creative activity has been found to assist in the promotion of physical, emotional, cognitive and social integration and functioning. The consequent insights and personal understandings can be instrumental in facilitating change. The course will introduce to you a range of major arts therapy theoretical perspectives and concepts, including expressive arts, multimodal approaches, and humanistic, cognitive and psychoanalytic approaches.
Through this course, you will develop relational skills and therapeutic presence to help clients explore their inner experience through the creative arts and the art-making process
Course Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Demonstrate an understanding of major arts therapy theoretical perspectives and concepts, including expressive arts, multimodal, humanistic, cognitive and psychoanalytic approaches.
Demonstrate an understanding of ethical issues, cultural and social diversity, and professional responsibility in the context of safe, ethical and reflective practice.
Establish relational qualities of empathy, mirroring, attunement and therapeutic presence in working with the arts with clients.
Demonstrate an understanding of a range of 2D and 3D art materials, colour and form, and how materials, colour and form can be used therapeutically to develop relationships and work with moment-to-moment experiencing.
Describe and apply the theory, philosophy and processes of the phenomenological method of arts therapy.
Assist the client to precisely verbally describe the inner experience represented in the artwork and the art making process.
Demonstrate an understanding of how the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is used to understand client presentations of mental health and distress in clinical settings.
Demonstrate self-awareness, self-motivation and personal responsibility for learning, work and emerging professional skills.
Career Opportunities
The Diploma of Arts Therapy prepares graduates with the skills to attend to the needs of clients in a variety of arts-based settings, ranging from mental health organisations, alcohol and drug centres, and other health centre agencies.
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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