Art Psychotherapy Practice MA

**Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.**<br/><br/>**Course summary**<br/><br/><br/>- Develop core professional knowledge and practical skills to enable person-centred art therapy practice <br/><br/><br/>- Participate in art-making to learn about client-centred approaches in psychotherapy <br/><br/><br/>- Develop a professional belief in the positive impact of art therapy on health and wellbeing in complex care settings. <br/><br/><br/>This full time Masters-level Art Psychotherapy Practice course provides you with specialist training, qualifications and opportunities to help you embark on a diverse and exciting career. Allowing study over a longer period which supports students with other responsibilities. <br/><br/>Learn directly from HCPC-registered art therapists, engaging with real-world practice throughout. Our staff integrate art-making into theory and experiential teaching.<br/><br/>**How you learn**<br/><br/>The course is designed to promote a critical and proactive approach to learning, which will enable you to become an effective and autonomous practitioner. There is a mixed mode of experiential and theoretical learning and teaching adopted in this programme. You are expected to engage fully in the learning process and in some of the modules you will learn with, from and about students from other health and social care courses in the School of Health and Social Care as part of the integrated curricula. This approach will ensure you have strong roots in your chosen profession of art therapy. <br/><br/>This approach will ensure you have a strong identity as an art therapist but are also able to deliver person centred care with an understanding of service integration and working within a multidisciplinary team to support the persons journey through health and care services.  <br/><br/>The focus of the integrated curricula will prepare you for working in an integrated working environment with multidisciplinary teams and organisations working effectively together to enhance the quality of care to the service user. These attributes will enhance employability not only for graduate employment, but will support career progression to senior positions within the NHS, social care, third sector, education and private organisations. <br/><br/>A detailed induction programme aims to facilitate students’ transition into studying at Masters level and introduces students to a range of support mechanisms to which they have access within the art therapy team and across the University. <br/><br/>**Key themes**<br/><br/>The course offers a structured progression of academic and practice experience. You will develop a critical, evidenced based and proactive approach to learning, enabling transition into an effective and autonomous therapist.  The course will reflect the cultural diversity within healthcare and practice, identifying global perspectives of health and inequality through a range of inclusive learning and teaching approaches to delivery of content.  <br/><br/>The teaching is based around the development of the key transferable skills you need to become a qualified art psychotherapist. The course is designed to promote independent structured learning leading to autonomous practice upon qualification. <br/><br/>Employability and associated skills form a continual feature throughout this programme. There is a firm belief that employability is important throughout the engagement on the course but in the final year the modules have a strong focus on the transition to practise. <br/><br/>Along with practice learning experience, these key modules will help you to maximise learning, skill acquisition, and professional and behavioural attributes required for employment The focus of integrated curricula will prepare you for working in an integrated working environment with multidisciplinary teams and organisations working effectively together to enhance the quality of care to the service user.