Includes second award: Certificate in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
A training programme co-run by The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (Academic Partner of the University of East London) and Centre for Child Mental Health.
Fees
Cost: £995 - Please view all of our training course fees.
Benefits from attending
- Gain a wealth of knowledge about the causes and healing of child and adolescent mental health problems.
- Learn key art therapy skills: sand play, art, poetry, clay, art imaged-emotion cards, use of puppets. Everyday words fail to do justice to what a child wants to say, whereas a picture or image really does speak 1000 words.
- Learn how to enable children/young people to use arts and imagery to name their feelings and communicate far more effectively in order to process important life events.
- Includes second award: Certificate in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (part one)
- Progression route for those participants who want to go on to become a nationally recognised and registered art therapist or child psychotherapist.
Part One (leading to the award of Certificate in Child and Adolescent Mental health)
As this is a rolling programme, you can complete part one at any time from now until July 2025 (subject to your application form being accepted). Once accepted, you will be given access to all 10 x 2 hours sessions (recorded). Alternatively, depending which month you join, you can choose to attend session/s live streamed instead.
- 10 x 2-hour child and adolescent mental health forums recordings view in your own time or live stream attendance Thursday evenings one per month (see forum page for dates).
- Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
- Two additional mental health webinars on therapeutic relational skills (watch in your own time).
- Assessment: Multiple choice to assess your assimilation of the course content of the 10 sessions
- Please note it is fine to begin part two before you have completed part one
Part Two of the programme starts during Part One (10am to 4.30pm each day)
- Day 1 Sat 29 March 2025
- Day 2 Sat 26 April
- Day 3 Sat 10 May
- Day 4 Sun 22 June
- Day 5 Sat 5 July
- Day 6 Sat 12 July
- Sunday 13 July (assessment day)
- 2 additional art therapy webinars (watch in your own time)
- You will need to pass assessments from Part One and Two to gain the award.
Admissions
Application form and attending part one. You will need to pass both part one and part two assessments to get the award.