Training program “Art therapy in the work of a psychologist with children and adults”

University “Ukraine” Rivne Institute announces admission to the training program in the direction of “Art therapy in the work of a psychologist with children and adults”

Purpose: training of specialists in the direction of art therapy in working with children, adolescents, adults and families. Mastering art therapy techniques, working out the methodological foundations of work in art therapy techniques.
Target group: designed for practical psychologists, psychologists of educational, medical and recreational institutions, social workers, counseling psychologists, psychotherapists, teachers, students.
The art therapy program in the work of a psychologist with children and adults will be implemented during 2011-2013, the duration of the program is 210 hours of group work, training will be held in sessions for 30 hours every three months.
The basis for the implementation of the art therapy program in the work of a psychologist with children and adults: the Center for Practical Psychology of the Republic of Ingushetia of Higher Educational Institutions of the OMUCH “Ukraine” – an art therapy laboratory; laboratory of interactive forms of education; consulting room equipped for play, sand and fairy tale therapy.

The main tasks of the project:

– To acquaint with the methodological and theoretical main methods of art therapy;
– Approbation of the main forms of art therapy in the process of group work;
– To master the systemic principles of diagnostics and correction by means of art therapy.
Forms of work: mini-lectures, watching video clips of corrective exercises, diagnostic workshop, using art therapy exercises, isotherapy (spontaneous drawing; scribble method, fantasy drawing, drawing archetypes, self-collages, ethno-psychological drawings, creating a generic picture, drawing in the sand, finger-drawing, work with a mandala (colored sand mandalas) sand therapy, play therapy, music therapy, work with clay, color therapy, fairy tale therapy (creation of psychological fairy tales; creation of corrective fairy tales, diagnostics in a fairy tale, acting out fairy tales, drawing according to the plot of a fairy tale, analysis fairy tales), music therapy (music as a metaphor, music therapy and the therapeutic nature of music, main directions of music therapy, active and passive forms of music therapy, combination of visual techniques with music, methods of interaction between a therapist and a client, with a group in music therapy, labeling using images, classification of musical metaphors, use of the method of musical therapy in the framework of group and individual work, criteria for choosing musical works, music therapy techniques, models for constructing an “individual” melody.