🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

🇬🇧 [The course is taught and examined in English] 🇬🇧

The purpose of the course is for students to be introduced to Therapy through the Arts, and then to get to know and understand both the theoretical background and basic parameters of the existence and operation of a series of applications encountered in different educational settings. social and therapeutic contexts. In this context, they are used to achieve a variety of individual or social goals, such as, for example, in the context of Special Education. It includes study, analysis and practical application of methods and techniques used in environments of educational, social and therapeutic applications of Art Therapies, with the aim of developing similar abilities and skills by students.

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Know the basic types and functions of Therapy through the Arts

• Understand their social and psychological dimensions

• Use techniques of Therapy through the Arts in some of the topics under consideration

• Engage in original artistic activities by applying some of the basic principles of Therapy through the Arts.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (2 hours)

1. Introduction and brief presentation of the thematic units of the course
2. Creative Therapies / Expressive Therapy through the Arts
3. Healing through Visual Arts
4. Art Therapy Workshop
5. Music Therapy
6. Therapy through dance movement
7. Healing through Poetry
8. Psychodrama
9. Dramatherapy
10. Oral presentations
11. Dramatherapy Laboratory
12. Practical – experiential exercise
13. Team presentations and feedback

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (1 hour)

1. Introduction and brief presentation of the thematic units of the course
2. Creative Therapies / Expressive Therapy through the Arts
3. Healing through Visual Arts
4. Art Therapy Workshop
5. Music Therapy
6. Therapy through dance movement
7. Healing through Poetry
8. Psychodrama
9. Dramatherapy
10. Oral presentations
11. Dramatherapy Laboratory
12. Practical – experiential exercise
13. Team presentations and feedback

Language of assessment: English 🇬🇧

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Laboratory Work: 30%

• Artistic performance: 30%

• Public Presentation: 30%

• Participation in the course: 10%

• Face-to-face
• Use of ICT in teaching
• Use of ICT in communication with students
• Support of the learning process through the online platform

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/PDA189/

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Cusak, D. E, and Rosal, M. L.(eds.) (2016). The Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy. HEAL-Link Wiley Ebooks. (Code): 80501430)

Extra Bibliography

• Adamson, E. (1984). Art as Healing. London: Coventure

• Boal, A. (1995). The Rainbow of Desire: The Boalian Method of Theatre and Therapy. London: Routledge.

• Capaccione, L. (1996). Picture of Health: Healing Your Life With Art. USA: Newcastle Pub Co Inc.

• Dalley, T. et.al. (1987). Images of Art Therapy. New Developments in Theory & Practice. London: Tavistock.

• Furth, G. (1988). The Secret World of Drawings.Healing through Art. Boston: Sigo Press

• Goffman, E. (1959). The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday.

• Hanser, S. (2016). Integrative Health through Music Therapy. U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Jennings, S. (1997). Introduction to Dramatherapy: Theatre and Healing - Ariadne’s Ball of Thread.  London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

• Jones, P. (1996). Drama as Therapy, Theatre as Living. London: Routledge.

• Laban, R. (1975). Modern Educational Dance (3rd ed.) Boston Play Inc.

• Landy, R. (1994). Dramatherapy: Concepts, Theories and Practices. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas

• Langley, D. (2006). An Introduction to Dramatherapy. London: SAGE.

• McNiff, S. (1992). Art as medicine: creating a therapy of the imagination. Boston: Shambhala.

• Schott - Bilmann, F. (2015) Primitive Expression and Dance Therapy, When Dancing Heals. London: Routledge.

• Waller, D. (1996). Group Interactive Art Therapy. Its use in Training and Treatment. London: Routledge.

• Ward, D. (2000). Music therapy. Athens: M. Nikolaidis & Co G.P.

• Winnicot, D. W. (1974) Playing and Reality. London: Pelican.

• Association of Dramatherapists and Playtherapists of Greece (2016) Dramatherapy. Available at: http://www.edpe.gr/dramatotherapeia/

• Ekmektsoglou I. & Adamopoulou Ch. (eds.) (2006). Music therapy and other musical approaches for children and young people with disabilities. Athens: M. Nikolaidis & Co G.P.

• Evdokimou - Papageorgiou, R. (1999). Dramatherapy - Music Therapy. The intervention of Art in Psychotherapy. Greek Letters.

• Platskou, S. and Bataki, E. (2018). "Harnessing Art Therapy in Education. Approaches to Art Therapy and Dance Therapy". In the Proceedings of the 2nd Panhellenic Conference of the P.D.E. of Crete "Education and Culture: Relations and Prospects", vol. B, 156-164. Available online.

• Robertson K. & Robertson, T. (2018). Dramatherapy. Psychotherapeutic intervention for children, adolescents and adults. Athens: To Balma.

• Tsergas, N. (2020). Healing through Poetry and Therapeutic Creative Writing. Athens: Gutenberg Publications.