Continuing Education

Professional development workshops

None currently scheduled

Certificates 

Counseling & Art Therapy offers the following two stand-alone graduate certificates.

These certificates target continuing education for alumni and area art therapists based on coursework to meet continuing education standards, fill gaps in education, and engage in the developing literature in the field. 

Advanced Cultural Humility 

Course Requirements:

• CAT 616: Cultural Humility (3 credit hours)
  This course supports the development of culturally humble counselors and art therapists through multicultural orientation with regard to intersecting identities including age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, socio-economic status, developmental ability, physical ability, education, family values, and religious and spiritual values. Through review of the current literature, application to clinical practice, and self-assessment, students will explore culture and their own unintentional biases, develop strategies for working with diverse individuals, groups, and communities, foster critical thinking skills, and explore the role of the counselor and art therapist in culturally alert and responsive practices for clinical mental health counseling, art therapy, social justice, and advocacy.

• CAT 631 Applied Cultural Sensitivity (4 Credit Hours)
  Applied Cultural Sensitivity in Counseling & Art Psychotherapy will engage students in cultural immersion to learn about cultural similarities and differences in mental health services, counseling, and art psychotherapy, and varied aspects of the impacts of trauma related to culture. Students will engage in content and experientials that explore art expression, role of art, artists, therapists, and art therapists in society, art/crafts processes, preferences or prohibitions to various art processes or media, and conventional/cultural symbolism; cultural appropriation in art therapy; and cultural sensitivity to the use of art processes and materials in art therapy for trauma informed approaches integrated into art psychotherapy and counseling in various community settings.

Trauma & Neuroscience Informed Art Psychotherapy 

Course Requirements:

• CAT 624 Trauma & Neuroscience Informed Counseling & Art Therapy (3 Credit Hours)
  This course will review and engage students in the current literature of Trauma and Neuroscience Informed Counseling & Art Psychotherapy Practices and additional materials. The objective is for the student to build skills and understanding of how to treat survivors of trauma, understand the etiology of behaviors, emotions, and functioning related to trauma, and develop age-appropriate treatment plans based on best art therapy practice. In addition, students will develop an understanding of brain-based science and neuro-informed practices in counseling and art psychotherapy. 

Educational Format

Classes are taught online or on campus during fall, spring, or summer terms. There may be unforeseen circumstances such as low registration numbers where on-campus delivery mode sections will be moved into an online delivery mode section.

Admissions Requirements and Application Procedure

Tuition

Tuition will be based on our current per-credit-hour rate.

Counseling & Art Therapy has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an approved continuing education provider, ACEP No. 6399.