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Offerings

MANDURAH-S2-INT-2018-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

Enrolment in the Graduate Diploma in Creative Arts Therapies. Other students wanting to study this unit can be interviewed by the Counselling Academic Chair.

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Learning outcomes

1.
Acquire knowledge, experience, and skills across a range of expressive arts therapy modalities that can be used to enrich the counselling process.
2.
Demonstrate a depth of engagement when working with this knowledge, experience and skills to develop imaginative and expressive responses that explore situational and individual experiences.
3.
Gain understanding of the philosophical and theoretical frameworks that inform different modalities of expressive arts therapies and their use as an arts based counselling medium.
4.
Identify the characteristics of the expressive arts therapies that most resonate with each student and which they choose to develop further during their practice as a counsellor.
5.
Describe and evaluate the efficacy of expressive arts therapy in the context of clinical and community practice.
6.
Demonstrate a clear knowledge of the ethics of expressive arts therapy practice within the context of mental health care and well-being.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:Key topics include: • Expressive therapies: History, Theory and Practice • Ethical issues in expressive therapies • Expressive therapies for different age groups: from children to aged care • Emotions and the body: Working with somatic awareness • Expressive writing for therapeutic purposes • Music therapy • Dance/movement therapy • Drama therapy and action-based therapies * Integrating expressive arts into counselling practice