创意艺术疗法是一种以人为中心的人文主义心理疗​​法，其中包括运用表达艺术来增强治疗过程。这种治疗方法在现有的从业者中正在蓬勃发展，并将引导学生发展理论知识以及基本的动手艺术治疗和咨询技能的基础。尽管该课程对辅导员与客户合作以表达自己的观点是有益的，但教师，社会工作者，牧师，心理学家，青年工作者和其他对提高其客户的表达能力和心理健康感兴趣的其他人也对此课程感兴趣。作为西澳州唯一提供的以大学为基础的创意艺术疗法计划，并获得了澳大利亚咨询协会（ACA）的认可，该课程将具有高度的体验性，并在曼杜拉校区新建的专用教
The Graduate Diploma in Creative Arts Therapies will teach you how the creative arts – from drama and movement to painting and poetry – can offer healing benefits when navigating difficult personal experiences, trauma and general mental health.Artists have been using art to express themselves for centuries – Vincent Van Gogh famously used his art to cope with mental illness throughout his life, and Edvard Munch is widely regarded to have inspired a whole movement of expressionism in art connecting to mood and internal emotional life.Modern science and psychology has helped to uncover the benefits of creative arts in promoting positive mental health outcomes. There is growing evidence about the power the artistic process has to help us connect with emotions and experiences, and by doing so face life’s dilemmas.Learn how expression through the arts can be used to enhance the therapeutic process by using a person-centred framework. You’ll learn the newly-emerging theory in this area of counselling, combined with hands-on experience that will build your counselling skills.While this course has proven beneficial for counsellors to work with clients to express themselves, if you’re a teacher, social worker, chaplain, psychologist, or youth worker, you’ll also be able to apply the skills you learn in your current role. Students who complete the Graduate Diploma in Creative Arts Therapies may apply for admission to the Masters of Counselling and will be exempt from the units already completed which are common to both degrees.