ART THERAPY ON THE MAPTHE STATE OF ART THERAPY IN UKRAINENational Association(s)Ukrainian Arts Therapy Association
Founded in 2003. www.art-therapy.org.ua National Psychological Association www.npa-ua.org |
Education
- Training based on Bachelor's degree: continuing education program for helping professions like psychologists, social workers, educators. Recognized by the Ministry of Education since 2005 in Kyiv, several compatible programs in the regions; 360 hours, includes core 144 hours/96 concentration (family, social, school; body, trauma, dance-movement; fairytale therapy concentrations), includes requirements for personal therapy and supervision; does not include psychopathology.
Prerequisites: complete or ongoing bachelor’s in psychology; a continuing education training program in another psychotherapy approach, 300 hours; 300 hours psychodynamic art psychotherapy, 250 hours personal experience in art groups, 700 hours practicum with supervision, 150 hours supervision, 150 hours psychopathology. - Ternopil National Pedagogical University, Applied Psychology Department. Training: private education program done by the NGO Ukrainian Psychotherapy Association itself; primarily with invited international instructors. Academic courses in arts therapy, samples: Introduction into arts therapy theory and practice, developed in 2008.
- Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Mental Health Department. Art therapy course developed to be taught in the fall 2018.
- Vinnytsya State Pedagogical University. Introduction into arts therapy course, developed and taught since 2004, then changed into art pedagogy until 2018.
Recognition
No state recognition.
Employment
Visual art therapy is conducted in a variety of settings and age groups:
• individual, family, group
• psychological first aid, trauma-focused therapy and support for abuse survivors, military, veterans, IDPs and anyone affected by trauma in-person/via media, including war trauma, or traumatic loss,
• prenatal/postnatal, with children, teens, adults,
• education setting with students and educator burnout prevention,
• medical hospital, clinic and palliative care setting,
• psychiatric and addiction treatment hospital setting,
• supports and social services for homeless, orphaned children and youth, vulnerable families,
• special needs and developmental disorders.
• individual, family, group
• psychological first aid, trauma-focused therapy and support for abuse survivors, military, veterans, IDPs and anyone affected by trauma in-person/via media, including war trauma, or traumatic loss,
• prenatal/postnatal, with children, teens, adults,
• education setting with students and educator burnout prevention,
• medical hospital, clinic and palliative care setting,
• psychiatric and addiction treatment hospital setting,
• supports and social services for homeless, orphaned children and youth, vulnerable families,
• special needs and developmental disorders.
Research & Publication
Textbooks and journals are published. Ukrainian Arts Therapy Association published nearly 40 titles in arts therapy.
• Collections of journal articles and other conference materials
• Concepts of introducing art therapy at pediatric hospitals
• Art therapy and the work of applied psychologist
• Art therapy resources for IDPs
• Art therapy and overcoming psychotrauma (2 editions)
• Journal The Space of Art Therapy (23 issues).
• Collections of journal articles and other conference materials
• Concepts of introducing art therapy at pediatric hospitals
• Art therapy and the work of applied psychologist
• Art therapy resources for IDPs
• Art therapy and overcoming psychotrauma (2 editions)
• Journal The Space of Art Therapy (23 issues).