Creative Therapeutic Activities (7cr)

Objective

The students are able to use creative therapeutical activities as a tool of therapy. They recognise their own relationship with different forms of activity and they are aware of their own capabilities on acitivities. The students understand the therapeutical significations of the creative activities. The students can analyse the impacts of these forms of activity and they can adapt them as therapeutical. The students can use the group to support their own growth and they understand the meaning of emphatetic and trustworthy relationships for the occupational therapy process. They can guide occupational therapy groups.

Content

Lectures, individual and group exercises, as well as written and occupational assignments related to creative movement, pictorial expression, drama, movie and to therapeutical use of stories and literature.

Qualifications

The students know the basics of group dynamics and group guidance

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Active participation in individual and group work, courage to try and apply creative activity, as well as an open and ruminative manner of examination in the learning diary and in written and occupational assignments.