Occupational Therapy and Arts Therapies
Head of Subject : Ian McMillan
The Subject of Occupational Therapy and Arts Therapies brings
together the following distinct disciplines.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy is about living, enabling people - usually
those with difficulties resulting from physical or psychological
problems - to carry out activities which make their lives
meaningful, from getting up and dressed, to going out for
work, doing the shopping and socialising.
Art Therapy
Art Therapy involves the use of art materials for self-expression
and reflection in the presence of a State Registered Art Therapist.
Previous experience and/or skill in art is not required as
the overall aim of Art Therapy is to enable a client to effect
change and growth on a personal level through the use of art
materials in a safe and facilitating environment. Art Therapy
offers an opportunity for expression and communication and
can be particularly helpfull to people who find it hard to
express their thoughts and feelings verbally.
Dance Movement Psychotherapy
Dance Movement Psychotherapy (also known as 'Dance Movement Therapy') is a movement-based therapy in which the client-therapist relationship plays a central role. It is founded on the principle that movement reflects an individual's patterns of thinking, feeling and communicating. Through acknowledging and supporting the client's movements, the Dance Movement Psychotherapy practitioner encourages development and integration of new adaptive movement patterns together with the emotional and relational experiences that accompany such changes.
Music Therapy
Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy is an established approach to personal and group therapy which utilises the inherent potential of music as an effective communicative medium. Creating and improvising music with the client, the therapist seeks to draw her/him into active musical involvement, seeking out, gaining and maintaining contact in order to establish and develop a working relationship. Both therapist and client are engaged in a progression of interactive therapeutic experiences from session to session, the therapist supporting each stage of the client’s creative development with the music itself regarded as the main agent of change.
movement reflects an individual's patterns of thinking, feeling and communicating.
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