Visual Art Therapy
Course code
KUR6076.LT
old course code
KUR6076
Course title in Estonian
Visuaalkunstiteraapia
Course title in English
Visual Art Therapy
ECTS credits
5.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
To give an overview of contemporary orientations, methods and techniques of art therapy.
Brief description of the course
The course takes place in a part-time format on 4 days, 8 hours each. Topics covered are the following:
1. Visual art therapy – what is it? History of art therapy. Therapeutic relationship: client – therapist – medium. Three triangles: therapist – client – medium; space, time, dynamics (tempo); colour-form – material – meaning. Theoretical background of visual art therapy: psychoanalytical, cognitive-behavioural, humanist therapy. The development of children’s drawing skills.
2. Forms of visual art therapy: individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy.
3. Methods of visual art therapy: imagination, concentration (mandala), restructuring (my tree of life), transformation, reconstruction.
4. Different client groups and techniques appropriate to them. Lectures take place in the form of seminars. At the end of the course students compile a portfolio containing works made during the seminars.
1. Visual art therapy – what is it? History of art therapy. Therapeutic relationship: client – therapist – medium. Three triangles: therapist – client – medium; space, time, dynamics (tempo); colour-form – material – meaning. Theoretical background of visual art therapy: psychoanalytical, cognitive-behavioural, humanist therapy. The development of children’s drawing skills.
2. Forms of visual art therapy: individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy.
3. Methods of visual art therapy: imagination, concentration (mandala), restructuring (my tree of life), transformation, reconstruction.
4. Different client groups and techniques appropriate to them. Lectures take place in the form of seminars. At the end of the course students compile a portfolio containing works made during the seminars.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
As the outcome of the course:
Students know what visual art therapy is, they are familiar with the history of the field and contemporary trends of development;
To support their professional work as special pedagogues, they can choose methods of visual art therapy appropriate to the client’s needs and are able to implement those activities;
As special pedagogues, they are able to give meaning to their work based on the theoretical material covered during the course;
They are able to analyse children’s development through manual activities and find ways of supporting it.
As the outcome of the course:
Students know what visual art therapy is, they are familiar with the history of the field and contemporary trends of development;
To support their professional work as special pedagogues, they can choose methods of visual art therapy appropriate to the client’s needs and are able to implement those activities;
As special pedagogues, they are able to give meaning to their work based on the theoretical material covered during the course;
They are able to analyse children’s development through manual activities and find ways of supporting it.
Teacher
Marika Ratnik, MSc
Prerequisite course 1
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