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Final Exam
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Lesson 1 Exercise: Match the Quote!
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Lesson 1 Exercise: Select the type of Experiment
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Lesson 1: What is Psychology? Three Minute Quiz
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Lesson 2 Exercise: High vs. Low Art
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Lesson 2 Exercise: Matching
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Lesson 2 Exercise: Point of view on comic books quotes
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Lesson 2: What is Art? Three Minute Quiz
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Lesson 3 Exercise: Creativity and Amy Poehler
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Lesson 3 Exercise: History of Ideas about Creativity
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Lesson 3: Creativity three minute quiz
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Lesson 3: Matching
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Lesson 4 Exercise: Identifying Symptoms of Mental Illness
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Lesson 4 Matching
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Lesson 4: Can Creativity Hurt? Three Minute Quiz
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Lesson 5 Exercise: Becoming an Art Therapist
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Lesson 5: Art therapy is uniquely suited to help
Art therapy can be used with almost any population. Here are some examples:
Art Therapy Basics
- Art therapy can be a primary therapy or a supplement to traditional therapy
- Art therapists have a solid knowledge of art, art materials and the creative process. Many are artists themselves.
- Art therapists work in hospitals, community mental health centers,
senior centers, schools, private practice and other therapeutic
settings.
Most art therapists assume that:
- The creative process has positive, healing effects
- All people have the capacity to be creative with art
Art therapy nearly always involves two process:
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Doing - image-making, working with materials, creating something
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Reflecting - thinking about the work that has been created, understanding it, and discussing its meaning.
Emphasis is almost always placed on doing and reflecting – not on the final art product. People with little or no art experience benefit from art therapy.
The therapist almost never focuses on the quality of the work produced.
The point is not to create a masterpiece or improve artistic skill, but
to increase self-awareness and confidence.
Goals
The goals of art therapy are similar to
the goals of other forms of therapy. Art therapy facilitates awareness,
communication, self-understanding, catharsis, self-esteem and problem
solving.
Are there unique advantages to art therapy?
When might art therapy be preferable to traditional therapy?
- Art therapy is advantageous primarily because it is a form of non-verbal expression.
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Projection and the lowering of defenses occurs more readily because people are generally not accustomed to communicating with images.
- Art therapy has specific benefits for people with limited verbal skills and for people with well-developed verbal skills
- In the first case because clients my have trouble with expression
- In the second, because verbal expression my be used as a defense mechanism
- Difficult issues can be initially explored through the art at a safe psychological distance.
- Over time, a tangible 'record' of progress emerges.
What if I want to be an Art Therapist?
Educational Requirements (United States)
- Masters degree in Art Therapy from accredited program: https://arttherapy.org/art-therapy-masters-education/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
- Art therapists are required to be certified by the Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB)
- May take exam to become a registered art therapist (ATR).
- Meet any State licencing requirements
Resources
Includes educational requirements, conference information, job bank and information on local chapters
Professional journals:
Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association
The Arts in Psychotherapy
International Journal of Arts in Medicine
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Lesson 5: Can Creativity Heal? Three Minute Quiz
Art-making works in the short term as a cognitive distraction and sort of like meditation; the creator focuses more on the moment
and the choices he/she needs to make at each stage of the process
rather than on the worrying thoughts. In some cases, the creation of
art may help the creator process emotions...
Drake and Hodge (2015) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
found that expressive writing (journaling, for example) helped
participants to express their feelings whereas drawing helped them
escape negative emotions and focus on something else. They suggest that
drawing may be effective at reducing extremely negative emotions in the
short-term whereas journaling may be better for processing emotions and
long-term healing.
Some Strategies and Techniques for Creating:
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Lesson 5: Process or Product
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Lesson 6 Exercise: Freud or Jung?
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Lesson 6 Matching: Personality Lesson
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Lesson 6: What does your Art say about You? Three Minute Quiz
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Lesson 7 Exercise: Complementary, analogous, triadic or split complementary
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Lesson 7 Exercise: Hue, Brightness, or Saturation?
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Lesson 7 Exercise: Reject, Reflect, or Revise
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Lesson 7: Is Art on the Canvas or in the Brain? Three Minute Quiz
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Lesson 8 Exercise: Central versus Peripheral Route
One way art has been able to engage the peripheral and central
routes to engage social change has been through literature and
storytelling. Stories are engaging through the lifespan. It has been
shown that children make connections between the plots and events in
books and their own lives (Applebee, 1978; Favat, 1977). Also, telling
stories from culturally diverse sources supports the creation of
multicultural awareness in classrooms (McCabe, 1997). In a 2001 study,
Robin Mello asked students to participate in twice-monthly storytelling
sessions. As many stories with different viewpoints were told, students
began to challenge their own traditional and conformist ideas or to
adjust their social consciousness.
“the storytelling experience was both
educative and powerful because it allowed students an opportunity of
controlling their understanding through a comparison, or negotiation, of
real and fantasy worlds.”
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Lesson 8 Exercise: Propaganda
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Lesson 8: Does Art Influence Us? Three Minute Quiz
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