Postgraduate - Edith Cowan University

teachers. Workshop activities investigate materials and processes
used in school art programs. Peer teaching and analysis of the
performance, are used to identify appropriate teaching styles and
methodologies.
AHP5101 20 Credit Points
Advanced Health Practice
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
This unit is designed to advance students’ knowledge relevant to
their postgraduate program of study in health care. The students
will be required to complete a project consistent with their
postgraduate development. A learning contract will include aims
and objectives specific to the project.
APT5151 30 Credit Points
Module 1
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
This unit is designed to provide students with an introduction to
the theory and practice of arts psychotherapy. Through lectures,
readings and workshops, given by course staff and invited
speakers, students will become conversant with the historical,
philosophical and cultural background to contemporary art
psychotherapy practice. Students will also be introduced to the
broader context of creative arts therapies using alternative
modalities to visual art such as drama, music, dance and
movement. Through extensive experience in group-work,
students will experience the therapeutic power of making and
sharing images confidentially in a group - how their own and
others' images carry psychological meaning.
APT5152 30 Credit Points
Module 2
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
APT5151 Module 1
Module 2 stresses the unique role of art, images and enactment in
psychotherapeutic work. It will examine the ideas of
psychoanalysts who incorporated the arts into their work, for
example, Jung, Milner, Hillman and Winnicott, as well as those of
leading art psychotherapy theorists. Students will be prepared
through this module for the various situations in which their
placements and future work might occur. It is designed to help
students understand the practices and terminologies they might
encounter in some of the settings where they will do their
placements during training and possibly seek employment after
qualification.
APT5153 30 Credit Points
Module 3
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
APT5152 Module 2
Fundamental theories underlying art and psychotherapy are
examined in depth. This involves both the inter-subjective and
intra-subjective sides of human experience. The cultural, gender
and political contexts in which people suffer psychological
distress, care for others, and make art are also considered.
Contrariwise, the unit will also look at the impact of art, literature
and popular culture on therapeutic practice itself. Students will be
encouraged to develop a theoretical understanding along with
some of the fundamental interpersonal skills that underlie most
forms of psychotherapy, counselling and the arts therapies.
Training Groups and Image Seminars continue through this
module.
APT5154 30 Credit Points
Module 4
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
APT5153 Module 3
The module also serves as an introduction to research, particularly
the kinds of research methodology most suited to the specific
kinds of phenomena arising in art psychotherapy, and assists
students in developing ideas for their 8,000 to 10,000 word
Project to be submitted in their final year. This will be on a topic
of each student’s choice and will embody elements of research. It
will also help students in the writing of their Case Studies in Part
2 of their training. It is in this module that students will discuss
possible placement situations with their tutor and other staff and
possibly make some preliminary observational visits to placement
situations.
APT6155 60 Credit Points
Module 5
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
APT5154 Module 4
All students commence their placement, and prepare for the
second of their two major writing assignments, the Case Study of
8,000 to 10,000 words. Its purpose is to examine and
communicate a student’s work on placements in depth and can
concern one or more individuals, or a group, and is expected to
include pictorial and photographic material. It will be in a similar
format to Project Research and addresses some of the same issues,
in this instance the case study as a genre of writing spanning the
‘scientific paper’, biography, narrative and story telling. An
understanding of this, familiarity with such literature, and ability
to use it both as a reflection on their own work and
communicating it in the public domain, is vital for art
psychotherapists and their profession. As in psychotherapy the
case study is one of the primary research methods of art
psychotherapy. In its completed form the Case Study, like the
Project, will be assessed against the criteria for published work.
APT6156 60 Credit Points
Module 6
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
APT6155 Module 5
Placements in Module 6 can be a continuation of previous
placement work. If appropriate however, they may take place in
remote rural locations, in other Australian States, or other
countries if suitable supervision can be arranged. This might be
particularly appropriate in the case of interstate or international
students and those from remote locations. For students whose
placements remain in the Perth area the weekly supervision group
will continue from Module 5. For those further afield university
supervision will be via delegated local resources, staff visits
where possible, intensive short courses in the university, teleconferencing
and email. A series of student led presentation
seminars occurs weekly where students can present their work to
other students and staff. For those doing placements considerable
distances from the university and overseas Presentation Seminars
will be delivered in the form of an intensive short course if
possible.
APT6205 30 Credit Points
Module 5
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
APT5154 Module 4
Students will normally commence their placement and begin
preparation for the Case Study in this unit. Its purpose is to
examine and communicate a student’s work on placements in
depth. In this instance the case study is a genre of writing
spanning the ‘scientific paper’, biography, narrative and story
telling. In its completed form the Case Study will be assessed
against the criteria for published work.
APT6206 30 Credit Points
Module 6
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
APT5154 Module 4
Students will normally continue with their placement and their
Case Study. Its purpose is to examine and communicate a
student’s work on placements in depth. In this instance the case
study is a genre of writing spanning the ‘scientific paper’,
biography, narrative and story telling. In its completed form the
Case Study will be assessed against the criteria for published
work.
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