MAART4500 Evaluation in Art Therapy Course description

All exam papers are assessed by one internal and one external examiner.

MAART4100 Introduction to Methods and Ethics of Art Therapy, MAART4200 Assessment and Intervention Methods in Art Therapy, MAART4300 Art Therapy in Prevention, Treatment, or Rehabilitation, MAART4400 Emotions and Relations in Art Therapy.

Admission to the programme

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence: 

Knowledge

The student:

• can critically consider and use ethical principles in evaluating practice

• can analyse and evaluate practice experiences to improve the quality and evidence-base of art therapy

 Skills

The student:  

• can apply different methods and tools to evaluate the process and outcome of art therapy
• can critically reflect and evaluate art therapy process and outcome

• can adjust and develop own practice work in a constructive and flexible manner according to the experiences and evidence of the process and outcome

Competence

The student:

• can evaluate the process and outcome of art therapy

• can contribute to professional collaboration and developing of the quality of art therapy services

The course is combining campus seminars and distant learning. The course will use varied art-based and student-active learning methods. Teaching and learning methods include lectures, workshops and skills training in workshops and practice. It also includes supervised practice

Between the seminars, there will be digital practice supervision and the students will work on the documentation and evaluation assignment that will later be presented and discussed in group.

Skills training takes place during seminars. In professional experiential workshops, the focus is on simulating art therapeutic interaction to enable learning and reflection from the therapist perspective. In personal experiential workshops, students will explore and reflect art making and their own creative process from the client’s perspective.

Practice

The art therapy practice can be conducted both in live and in distant interventions depending of the context of practice and client group. For more detailed descriptions of practical training, see separate plan for practical training.

The following coursework must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam:

• participation in seminars, compulsory attendance of 80 %
• 60 hours of art therapy practice, compulsory attendance of 90 %
• Individual evaluation of own practice on a given format

Course requirements can be conducted in English or in Scandinavian language.

Individual written project exam up to 1500 words excluding references. Project exam is worked during the course period and contains reflection of the art therapy practice with a client or a group.

The exam answer can be given in English or a Scandinavian language.

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Graded scale A-F

All exams are assessed by two examiners, of whom at least one is external.

BITPRA 6000 overlaps 60 hours of the art therapy practice. 60 hours of the practice hours can be replaced by it.