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Post Graduate Diploma in Art Therapy
Satakunta Polytechnic, Kankaanpää Art Unit, Finland and Hertfordshire University, UK (Franchising agreement)
The programme has been accredited by the British Association of Art Therapy (BAAT)/The Health Professions Council HPC), and approved by the Finnish Ministry of Education.
Entry Requirements
A first degree or its equivalent in visual arts, special education, teaching, psychology, occupational therapy, psychiatric nursing, social work (etc). In cases where candidates have other than arts background, additional art studies are expected. All applicants must present a portfolio of their recent art work, and produce a piece of art for a professional art teacher in the entrance examination.
Other requirements are fluency in studying in English, and personal suitability and maturity to study therapeutic
subjects. Language test, personal interview, and group observation are included in the entrance examination day.
Previous clinical experience is needed in the field of education/ rehabilitation (minimum 12 months). Willingness to
engage in personal therapy is needed. The minimum age is 23.
Duration of studies
Three year, part-time studies.
Course content
The Programme consists of three modules, which are all mandatory for the award of the Postgraduate Diploma Art Therapy.
The students must grain a pass in all the assessed elements of each module:
- Art Therapy Theoretical studies (1,2)
- Experiential Art Therapy Training (1,2,3)
- Clinical Placement and Supervision (A,B,C)
These modules include lectures, seminars, clinical practise (120 days), clinical supervision, workshops and experiential
groups, studio practise (fine art), literature review, academic reading, empirical research and tutorials.
In addition to this, the students have to study altogether 200 hours of psychotherapy, and they have to receive at least 120 hours of clinical supervision in three years time, in order to meet the Finnish psychotherapy training requirements. Each student is participating their personal psychotherapy throughout the three-year programme. The level of the therapist must be level two ("Vaativa Erityistaso").
The teaching team needs to have a monthly team supervision.
The programme assessment includes: examination by written assignments, tutor assessment of student performance, self appraisal, and attendance. 100 % attendance is required, 80 % minimum attendance.
The Programme Committee, meeting at least once a semester, has got a responsibility to encompass all aspects of the Programme. The body consists of both teaching staff and student representatives. This is a way to pass the student's own opinions and ideas on to the teaching staff.
The Examination Board meets once a year, where all reassessment and/or repeating modules will be at the discretion of the Examination Board. The board consists of the teaching team, and is managed by a representative from the University of Hertfordshire.
The students meet the External Examiner once a year, telling opinions about their own progress and learning experience.
The role of the External Examiner is to meet both the students and the staff, and give a report to the University about
the Programme in the Exam Board meeting. This is a way of forming a neutral view about the student learning experience,
and the everyday management of the programme.
Course philosophy
A lot of learning happens through group discussions, experiential group processing, and continuous and progressive dialogue between the student group and the teaching staff/ visiting specialists. Another way of learning is the self-directed reading and writing of self-appraisals, essays and clinical reports, as well as developing oneself as an artist both in a group setting and individually. An ongoing Art Therapy group experience offers the students a central way of gaining insight and understanding into ways of using both image-making and interpersonal processed to work through personal material. An integrated tutorial system is supporting the overall development of the trainee Art Therapist.
The students are expected to be responsible for their own reading, using initiative and self-discipline; they are expected to adapt and manage change; to stand ambiguity and uncertainty concerning the group process and the individual growth to become professional art therapists; to use their intellectual and imaginative powers, to be reflective and critical, to analyse, to synthesise and to be creative; and to view the subject in a broad intellectual, ethical, social, and environmental context.
Contact Address:
Sisko Miettinen (Programme Tutor: on vacancy during the year 2004)
Päivi Maria Hautala (substituting Tutor, year 2004)
Satakunta Polytechnic
Kankaanpää Fine Art
Paasikivenkatu 24
38700 Kankaanpää
Finland
Fax: 00-358-2-6206160 (Kankaanpää Fine Art)
Tel: Sisko: 00-358-44-7103116
Päivi-Maria: 00-358-50-5289711