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Email will be recieved in 2 weeks time I will screenshot evidence of the phone call but I will reblog the confirmation when the email is through.

I believe that through having to submit EV this has helped me to gain the confidence to apply for jobs and I have finally got one that will get my foot in the door for Art therapy

Researching into organisations  and articles on contemporary art practice and topics such as artists' pay.

This websites really help as it is lettered A-Z of organisations that do arts and are linked into art therapy. 

I have been searching online to see what would be the best outcome in order to start with some education on the professionalism of art therapy. Here is what I came across, this website has more than 200 online and classroom courses for art therapy.

Who is this course for?

If you are a social worker, coach, teacher, therapist, counsellor, psychologist, or anyone with a desire to learn and understand a new discipline and form of communication, then an Art Therapy education can help. This course is ideal for those that are either complete beginners to the field of Art Therapy and are considering making a career change to become a Art Therapist, with the aim of getting an insight and understanding of Art Therapist, or existing Art Therapists, psychologists, therapists, teachers, coaches or parents looking to reinforce their knowledge or to pick up some new skills. This course is also ideal if you are interested in a career in Art Therapy, though are unsure if you want to commit yourself financially and time-wise to a full Art Therapy qualification. Each course has different training skills provided. This is the course I have entered into my basket it is £49 it is self paced, 150 CPD hours. This course captures an overview of tackling each therapy within the places of: Hospitals Community Mental Health Centers Child Life programmes Shelters Prisons Nursing Homes Special Schools. So each practice will maintain differently for each place provided. I have entered my details and applied for this course so that I can learn more about art therapy in different areas and how this helps the client.

When looking closer into this website, it exploits trauma therapy for parents struggling with children as well as the nature of child like therapy. So it is very diverse and fits each need, but involves around children whether that be how the parent feels of the child, or the child itself.

They do different types of therapy with children such as play, filia and creative play, which is the part that stands out to me the most. With young children you have to think about the risk assessments in what materials/mediums are used. So when this is carried out, It’s creative play for children to express themselves in a safe and harmonious way. I like how it is kept professional for the adults but also immature for the children. It’s an interaction that can fulfill each clients needs. I decided to send my cv over along with a statement to ensure they understood my reasonings for emailing. I explained how I would like to understand more of how child in mind works and if there is any voluntary work being held within the facility/online (Due to covid)

What is to become of an art therapists

Wage? 31,365

Starter

to £44,503

Progression path?

How to become of? You can get into this job through: a university course, an apprenticeship You'll need to complete a postgraduate qualification approved by the Health and Care Professions Council.

Full-time postgraduate courses normally take 2 years to complete. Part-time courses take 3 years.

You should have a degree in art or creative therapies to do a postgraduate course.

You may be able to apply if you've got a degree in a related subject, for example psychology, nursing or social work. A degree in a relevant subject for postgraduate study is usually needed too.

Aims

• Apply for mental health places to gain experience working with vunreable people. via - personal CV

• search apprenticeships near me

• Ask for voluntry work (hard under circumstances)

• keep researching about art therapy, (look for more websites) via artist CV

Plain and simple.

As my experience hasn’t expanded yet I have wrote what I have done and achievements.

Positive: includes what I can do as an artist

Negative: really simple, not much experience.

However I can work on this with volenteer work and 1-1 talks on art therapy. It would be interesting if I could just get into mental health and work my way from there with voluntary on the side