MA Art Therapy
Postgraduate Certificate / Master's Degree
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ABOUT
Why choose Herts?
Industry accreditation and reputation: The art therapy programme at Herts is internationally recognised and has been at the forefront of the profession for 50 years. This course is approved by The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). This means, you’ll be eligible to apply for registration with HCPC when you graduate.
Work-Related Learning: You’ll benefit from 96 days of supervised placement learning. We work in partnership with a variety of providers in settings ranging from residential services to special needs schools. This practice-based learning will be the key to your success, giving you real-life experience, and knowledge of mental health services.
Expert staff: Our teaching team are highly motivated art therapy educators with a wealth of contemporary practice experience. We welcome visiting lecturers with bespoke clinical and research expertise from a range of client groups. Together, we are a friendly approachable team, delivering inspirational teaching.
Entry requirements and key information
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About the course
Join a vocational course, comprising of campus and placement-based learning. We’ll teach you through a combination of lectures, seminars and workshops, to bring together theory and practice. We offer a stimulating learning environment, teaching through role play, visual art practice, peer participation and experiential group work.
You’ll complete 96 days of supervised placement learning to give you valuable experience in practicing art therapy in real-life settings. This experience will help guide you to become a mindful, relational and ethical art therapist.
Every step of the way, we’ll encourage you to be an active learner. To be creative. Art making lies at the heart of this course, so you’ll have lots of opportunities to develop strong practical skills. Plus, you’ll reflect on how to use your own art making as therapy practice.
Outside of the course, we’ll require you to explore your own therapeutic journey. To engage with personal therapy to gain self-awareness and to see the approaches used to facilitate honesty of expression.
The course is offered on a full-time (2 years) and part-time (4 years) basis. With students on each pathway studying together. Both pathways are equally weighted in terms of practice-based and campus-based learning.
We welcome creative and psychologically minded students from a wide range of cultural, ethnic and social backgrounds.
Why choose this course?
- You want to study art therapy in a School of Creative Arts, to benefit from a creative, collaborative and energising environment
- You want to immerse yourself in making art, using the resources of the School of Creative Arts alongside our dedicated art therapy spaces
- You want to be taught by motivated and talented staff who care about your successes and your future clients
- You want to immerse yourself in sector relevant and inspiring course content
- You’re looking for the opportunity to explore art therapy with all client groups and settings, to see which path best suits you
- Upon graduation, you want to become eligible to apply for registration with the HCPC.
What will I study?
You’ll master core skills to deliver art therapy to clients of all ages, in all settings. We’ll teach you theories of creativity and the arts from a neuroscientific, psychological and evolutionary perspective. You’ll gain an understanding of the issues of culture, race, gender, sexuality, class and disability. You’ll use this knowledge to create equality of opportunity in your practice. Together we’ll explore intersectionality and privilege. We’ll teach you strong clinical reasoning, evaluation and decision-making skills. You’ll learn the ethical, legal and organisational context to therapeutic practice, becoming confident to manage risk. You’ll discover how to tailor interventions to help service users with complex needs. You’ll become a confident researcher, developing evidence-based practice, as you employ the arts to improve wellbeing. We’ll assess you through a mix of written, oral and visual assignments.
Through clinical placements in a range of acute and community mental health services, you’ll observe how to maintain safe and helpful relationships with service users. You’ll learn the skills needed for effective multi-disciplinary teamwork. You’ll become an excellent communicator, using verbal and non-verbal techniques with clients. During your placements, your fitness to practice will be nurtured, developed and assessed.
At the University of Hertfordshire, we want to make sure your time studying with us is as stress-free and rewarding as possible. We offer a range of support services including; student wellbeing, academic support, accommodation and childcare to ensure that you make the most of your time at Herts and can focus on studying and having fun.
Fees 2022
UK Students
Full time
- £8405 for the 2022/2023 academic year
Part time
- £1050 per 15 credits for the 2022/2023 academic year
EU Students
Full time
- £11620 for the 2022/2023 academic year
Part time
- £1450 per 15 credits for the 2022/2023 academic year
International Students
Full time
- £11620 for the 2022/2023 academic year
Part time
- £1450 per 15 credits for the 2022/2023 academic year
From September 2021, the MA Art Therapy part-time and full-time routes will both be eligible for Student Loans Company funding. You will be able to apply for a Postgraduate Masters Loan whatever route of study you choose.
In addition to fees, it is necessary to budget for personal therapy. (See ‘Personal Therapy’ section below). Travel expenses to placements are also the responsibility of trainees. Wherever possible, placements are arranged within a reasonable distance of the trainee’s home in order to minimise costs.
Personal therapy
Some experience of personal therapy can be useful prior to application but it is not a pre-course requirement. However, once a student is enrolled, it is a mandatory aspect of the course that all students must be in personal therapy for the duration of their training. It is usual for therapists to expect attendance throughout the calendar year except for usual holiday breaks; this may entail attendance outside college term times. Therapy can be art therapy or verbal psychotherapy. Attendance should be once weekly. Applicants should be aware that this is an additional item that must be budgeted for. Some organisations and individual therapists may be prepared to offer a reduced rate to students.
*Tuition fees are charged annually. The fees quoted above are for the specified year(s) only. Fees may be higher in future years, for both new and continuing students. Please see the University’s Fees and Finance Policy (and in particular the section headed “When tuition fees change”), for further information about when and by how much the University may increase its fees for future years.
This course is closed for 2022 applicants.
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