Overview
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Offerings
MANDURAH-S2-INT-2022-ONGOING
Requisites
Prerequisite
Enrolment rules
Academic Chair may approve enrolment without completion of the prerequisites.
Concurrent enrolment is permissible with CSL576 and/or CSL566.
Enrolment in the Graduate Diploma in Creative Arts Therapies, Master of Creative Arts Therapies
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Learning outcomes
1.
Develop understanding of the developmental stages of childhood, attachment stages of childhood, and developmental stages of play that can provide foundational knowledge for therapeutic work with children.
2.
Acquire knowledge, experience, and skills in a range of play and expressive arts therapy modalities that can be used to enrich the counselling process with children and adolescents, and in the context of family therapy.
3.
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.
4.
Gain understanding of the philosophical and theoretical frameworks that inform different modalities of expressive arts therapies and their use as a counselling medium.
5.
Describe and evaluate the efficacy of expressive arts therapy in the context of clinical practice.
6.
Identify the characteristics of play and expressive arts therapies that most resonate with each student and which they choose to develop further during practice as a counsellor.
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:Key topics include:
Introduction
• Review of attachment and developmental stages of childhood
• History, theory and practice of art therapy with children and adolescents
Module 1 – Modes of working with children using the creative and expressive arts
• Art therapy
• Play therapy
• Expressive therapies
• Sand Tray therapy
Module 2 - Integrating creative and expressive arts therapies into work with different groups
• Creative arts and play therapies to engage children in family work
• Creative arts and play therapies for traumatised children and adolescents
• Creative arts and play therapies for groups
• Creative arts and play therapies to enhance mental health and wellbeing in children and adolescents