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Medical Art Therapy

SOC WEL 1007

71861

Get an overview of the methods used in medical art therapy with supportive information from modern mind-body and trauma healing literature. Medical art therapy has developed adjunctive art and imagery processes for pain reduction and symptom relief for people suffering from acute and chronic illnesses and trauma. Understand treatment strategies through case studies of imagery produced by children and adults healing from cancer, lung and heart disease, arthritis, chronic migraines, brain injuries and disorders, eating disorders, trauma, and comorbid depression and anxiety disorders. Through hands-on experience, you learn the developmental and clinical dynamics of using art media. You produce your own art-imagery series of drawings, paintings, collage and sculpture. You are encouraged to bring your own case(s) in for consultation with other students. Wear comfortable clothes for art making.

Learner Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will have learned:
  1. Medical art therapy benefits for clients and patients in hospital and outpatient settings
  2. Art therapy applications in acute and chronic situations and cases
  3. Methods and materials used in medical art therapy cases
  4. Development of treatment plans in art therapy
  5. Health psychology and mind-body psychotherapies
  6. Hands-on medical art therapy exercises to implement in actual cases
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This course applies to the following programs:

Professional Program in the Study of Loss and Grief

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Required Courses

  • Clinical Case Seminar
  • Introduction to Loss and Grief Issues: Refreshing Old Skills, Learning New Skills

Electives

  • Aging and Long-Term Care: Update for Clinicians
  • Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Loss: Working With Families
  • Art Therapy With the Elderly
  • Clinical and Ethical Approaches to End-of-Life Care
  • Contemplating the End: Understanding the California End of Life Options Act
  • Differentiating Between Normal Grief and Major Depression
  • The End of Life Option Act: What Mental Health Clinicians Need to Know
  • An Experiential Introduction to Art Therapy
  • Grief Support: After a Sudden Death or Long-Term Illness
  • Health Care Advocacy and the Connected Patient
  • Integrating Mindfulness Into Your Professional Practice
  • The Trauma of Loss and Grief With Children, Youth and Families
  • Medical Art Therapy
  • Physiological, Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Suffering and Pain
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Assessment and Treatment
  • Somatic Aspects of Loss and Grief
  • Somatic Aspects of the Grief Response
  • Spiritual Approaches to Illness, Death and Grief
  • Support Group Facilitation Skills for Mental Health Professionals
  • The Role of Spirituality and Religion in Our Work with Grief
  • Trauma Informed Care and Social Justice: Supporting Youth Impacted by Toxic Stress and Trauma
  • Trauma, Loss, Grief and Resilience: Helping Children, Youth and Families Thrive
  • Vicarious and Secondary Trauma
  • Working With Families After a Sudden Death
  • Working With Grief Issues From a Cross-Cultural Perspective

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Notes

Departmental contact: extension-counspsych@berkeley.edu | ​(510) 643-3883

Accrediting Associations

  • American Psychological Association (APA) 14.0 hours 14.0 hours
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