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ART THERAPY ON THE MAP 

THE STATE OF ART THERAPY IN FRANCE

National Association(s)

Art&Thérapie www.inecat.org
FFAT - Fédération Française des Arts-Thérapeutes  www.ffat-federation.org 
Guilde des Art-thérapeutes  www.art-therapie-tours
Ligue professionnelle d’Art-Thérapie  http://artherapie.levillage.org
SFPE-AT www.sfpe-art-therapie.fr

 
All associations are multimodal, none is specialized in visual arts.
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The state of Art Therapy in Iceland

Education

  • ​Université Paris 5, entry requirements Bachelor, Master degree, 2 years on part time basis, PhD.
  • Université Jean-Jaurès Toulouse, DU (University Diploma), 2 years, Bachelor degree.
  • Université de Tours, DU, 2 years, Bachelor degree.
  • Private programs referenced on the FFAT’s website: Bachelor + 1 degree
  • ATTEP-CEFAT Les Pinceaux - Paris
  • INECAT – Paris
  • INFIPP - Lyon
  • IRFAT – Avignon
  • PROFAC – Arles, Paris
  • PUZZLE - Lille
  • SCHEME – Lyon

Each training program has its own criteria of pre-requisites to admission, generally a first Bachelor’s or Master’s in a connected area (art, psychology, nursing, education, social sciences, etc).
Since 2009, the FFAT has introduced a protocol reference for the training programs according to European Master’s criteria; as well as an accreditation protocol for professionals, since 2006.
Many different short-time trainings are implemented as well in University, as in Private sector.
4 orientations are officially admitted:
- Psychoanalytical
- Cognitive-Behavioral
- Systemic
- Humanistic
+ specific to Arts Therapies:  Multi-modal comprehensive, Phenomenological.

Recognition

No state recognition. 

Employment

Visual art therapy is conducted in a variety of settings:
  • for clinical/medical clients (psychiatric, disabled, chronic diseases, cancer, etc),
  • social settings,
  • educational (though art therapy has not yet been introduced into the public schools),
  • private, etc,

Not many have full-time or even half-time work as art therapists; most have a part-time art therapy activity, necessitating complementing income with other activities (artistic, medical, paramedical, educational, social work, etc).

Research & Publication

Research programs are implemented at the Université Paris 5 and the Université Jean-Jaurès/Toulouse

CEE – Centre d’Etude de l’Expression : www.centre-etude-expression.fr and MAHSA – documentation center and art therapy museum based on the historical collections of the Saint- Anne’s Psychiatric Hospital and contemporary art therapy workshops.

Journals

Revue annuelle de la FFAT  www.ffat-federation.org
Art &Thérapie (bi-annual) www.inecat.org
Revue Annuelle de la SFPE-AT www.sfpe-art-therapie.fr  

Many books are edited in French and some translations of international publications are available.
The FFAT is currently preparing an online documentation basis.

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