art therapist
Code 2269.9.2
Art therapists help patients overcome psychological and emotional difficulties through an artistic process which reflects emotions and feelings, focusing on patients who suffer a variety of problems such as mental, psychological, and behavioural disorders in order to facilitate self-understanding and awareness.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- fine arts
- human psychological development
- health care legislation
- cognitive psychology
- psychopathology
- sociology
- theory of art therapy
- psychological theories
- behavioural therapy
- techniques of practice in art therapy
Skills and competences
- apply art therapy interventions
- apply context specific clinical competences
- accept own accountability
- take referred patients
- communicate in healthcare
- contribute to continuity of health care
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- use art in a therapeutic setting
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- challenge patient behaviour by means of art
- assess art therapy sessions
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- manage healthcare users' data
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- enable patients to explore artworks
- listen actively
- organise relapse prevention
- prepare treatment plan for art therapy
- promote inclusion
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- interact with healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- utilizar la terapia artística para tratar problemas de salud
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
Transversal competences
- deal with emergency care situations
- respond to changing situations in health care
- apply organisational techniques
- refer healthcare users
- educate on the prevention of illness
- develop educational materials on art therapy
- assess the patient's therapeutic needs
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- schedule artistic activities
- provide health education
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences