MAART5200 Professional Identity and Development Course description

Ongoing focus on professional development and self-reflection skills is a crucial part of art therapist’s professional identity. It ensures the ethical and high quality of practice since therapeutic relationship is one of the main effecting factors in art therapeutic working alliance. This course focuses on developing student’s self-reflective skills with art-based methods. Different forms of contemporary art media, such as digital tools, are used in addition to traditional art materials and methods.

The course aims to aid professional reflection and discussion of the whole three-year long study process. The goal is to integrate the gained knowledge, theoretical perspectives, practice experiences and art therapy skills into the personal professional identity that can have impact on the future practices. The students will develop their unique professional agencies that enables them to effect on the current educational, social- or healthcare practices and interact innovatively with interdisciplinary professionals.

Dag Jenssen

Jorunn Vindegg

Admission to the master programme.

None.

The course is combining campus seminars and distant learning. Teaching and learning methods include lectures, workshops and skills training in the form of practical art therapeutic assignments. The course will use varied art-based and student-active learning methods. It includes both personal experiential workshops and professional experiential workshops.

Between the seminars, the students will work with a project assignment that will later be presented and discussed in the group. The results of this project will be presented in the exam.

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

• participation in seminars, compulsory attendance of 80 %
• art therapy project presentation to fellow students and teachers

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

The teaching takes place through lectures, e-lectures, feedback on work requirements and study groups.

The exam in the course is an individual six-hours supervised exam.

No aids are permitted.

Grade scale A-F.