Certificate of Art and Creative Therapies

Unit 1 – Scope and Nature of Creative Therapies and Counselling Skills 1

• What are creative therapies?
• Who can benefit from participating in creative therapy?
• Caution to be taken with some clients
• Benefits
• Scientific evidence
• Preparing for creative therapies
• Counselling skills
• Active listening
• Giving instructions
• Different learning styles
• Planning for choice
• Options for a response
• Open-ended tasks
• Improving creativity
• Health and safety
• Insurance
• Selling your craft
• After creative therapy

Unit 2 – Art Therapy and Counselling skills II

• Counselling skills – SOLER
• What is art therapy?
• What clients benefit from art therapy?
• Art therapy for specific conditions
• Scientific evidence
• Art therapy techniques
• Art therapy with children
• Playdough
• Candle making
• Therapeutic photography
• Colouring books
• Painting by numbers
• Doodling

Unit 3 – Crafts Therapy – Part 1 – Fibre and Paper Crafts

• What is craft therapy?
• How it works
• Knitting, ceramics and quilting
• Decoupage, embroidery
• Sewing, crochet, macrame
• Origami, tie dying and batik
• Scientific evidence and historical anecdotes
• Therapeutic benefits

Unit 4 – Craft Therapy –  Part 2 – Model Making and Building Crafts

• The skills required in model making
• Examples of building crafts and model-making activities
• Model building
• Woodworking/carpentry
• Interior design
• Light, space, textures and patterns
• Colour, line, form
• Furniture and objects
• Sculpting
• Building renovation and building blocks
• The benefits of model-making and building crafts
• Risks
• Working with individuals
• Creativity and the individual – find their creativity
• Exploring different types of craft
• Using technology
• Cultivate expertise
• The reward

Unit 5 – Singing Therapy and Music Therapy

• What is singing therapy?
• Therapeutic benefits and scientific evidence
• What is music therapy?
• Music therapy techniques and methods
• Receptive music therapy
• How does music therapy work?
• Silence
• Dementia and singing and music therapy
• Working with groups
• Helping a person when they are upset
• Talking to groups
• Organising sessions and planning

Unit 6 – Psychotherapeutic Writing

• What is writing therapy?
• Hiding the pain
• Therapeutic benefits
• Self-knowledge, balancing emotions, improving discipline
• Examples of writing therapy
• How it works
• Example of psychotherapeutic exercise and writing
• Writing a letter
• Word walls
• Be positive

Unit 7 – Psychodrama, Dance and Movement Therapy

• Non-verbal communication
• Body language
• Classification of non-verbal communication
• Kinesics Haptics
• Proxemics, occulesics
• What is drama therapy?
• The aims of drama therapy
• Working with different groups
• Therapeutic benefits and scientific evidence
• How drama therapy works
• Projective play
• Acting out
• Reunion and puppetry
• Dance and movement therapy
• Scientific research on DMT
• How DMT sessions work
• DMT and regulating emotions
• Psychodrama
• How psychodrama sessions work
• The uses of psychodrama
• Psychodrama and children

Unit 8 – Reminiscence Therapy

• What is reminiscence therapy?
• Individuals who benefit from reminiscence work
• Neurocognitive deficits
• Delirium
• Neurocognitive disorders (NCD)
• How does reminiscence therapy work?
• Therapeutic benefits and scientific evidence
• Reminiscence work tips
• Reminiscence work and other therapies