HNRS 212 Happy Little Trees: Using Art Therapy to Mend your Mood
This class will introduce the student to using arts as an effective treatment option in clinical mental health practice. This course offers an exploration of creativity and self-expression using several medias to include crayon, paint, chalk, oil pastels, beadwork and clay. Students will participate in their own creative process with the guidance of the instructor and within the weekly objectives. An introduction to the theory behind the use of art as an adjunct therapy treatment will be discussed.
Student Learning Outcomes
- • Students will experience how art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, identify and resolve conflicts and distress and advance society and ecological change.
- This course will recreate many of the art therapy techniques used in practice for students to observe for themselves the power of art.