Art Therapy - Drexel University

Art Therapy from Drexel University is a Campus Master Alternative medicine degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. Students create their own art in response to their personal journey through the program as well as their experiences within art therapy sessions. The Art Therapy program was founded in 1967 at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital. It was the first program in the world to offer graduate-level art therapy education. One of the distinctive features of this program is that it is housed within an academic health center environment while also maintaining an affiliation with a school of fine arts. This marriage of health sciences and the arts provides both the learning atmosphere and the depth of resources highly conducive to quality art therapy education. The curriculum integrates knowledge of art psychotherapy with current theoretical and practical approaches to assessment and treatment in such fields as mental health medicine and education. Didactic clinical and supervisory aspects of the program are balanced and integrated to provide a foundation of theoretical knowledge and practical application. The program is unique in that faculty members are art therapists and mental health professionals with an interest in the arts who can help students integrate the principles of art therapy with current mental health theory and practice. The curriculum includes classroom and clinical field placements that occur simultaneously throughout the two-year education. Through experiences in the classroom students in the Art Therapy program study the theory behind the creative and complex interaction of the therapist the patient/client and the art process. They then apply what they learn in a clinical practicum and internship setting while under the supervision of a qualified art therapist . Individual and group supervision assist in acquiring an integrated understanding of the theory and the art therapy practice. Through this process the students learn the importance of the synthesis of these elements in the art therapy treatment milieu and therapeutic relationship. View more details on Drexel University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Alternative medicine courses.