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This Unit is archived with an end date of 28/03/2022

Overview

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Offerings

MANDURAH-S1-INT-2018-2021

MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

Academic Chair may approve enrolment without completion of the prerequisites. Concurrent enrolment is permissible with CLS566. Enrolment in the Graduate CertiWcate of Counselling, Graduate Diploma of Counselling, Master of Counselling, Graduate Diploma in Creative Arts Therapies, Master of Creative Arts Therapie
Other students wanting to study this unit can be interviewed by the Academic Chair of the Graduate Diploma of Creative Arts Therapies.

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Acquire knowledge and experience of a range of creative arts therapy modalities, materials, processes and skills that can be used to enrich the counselling process.

2.

Demonstrate a depth of engagement when working with this knowledge and experience to develop imaginative and expressive responses that explore situational and individual experiences.

3.

Gain understanding of the philosophical and theoretical frameworks that informs the creative arts therapies, with specific focus on the use of imagery and metaphor, as a counselling medium.

4.

Identify the characteristics of the arts therapies with which you resonate and choose to develop further in your practice as a counsellor.

5.

Articulate your position in relation to working with the creative arts therapies in counselling and be able to substantiate your position with reference to your experiential learning and reading of the philosophical and theoretical literature.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Key topics include:

  • Historical background to the arts therapies
  • Working with the image
  • The role of the image in the arts therapies
  • Embodied and diagrammatic imagery
  • Working with metaphor
  • Multi-modal approaches
  • Art therapy
  • Drama therapy
  • Sand Tray therapy
  • Poetry therapy
  • Ethical practice
  • Media explorations
  • The arts therapies space