Events
Accredited Diplomas
Art therapy with children and young people diploma
Application deadline: 6 January 2025
Online
The level 6 diploma, accredited by CPCAB (Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body) is a theory-informed and practice-based course. It aims to equip art therapists with the knowledge and skills required to provide ethical and effective art therapy for children and young people.
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Peer review training
Friday 24 January 2025
Online via Zoom
For us to develop art therapy literature that is truly representative of contemporary practice, we need the widest possible involvement of art therapists as peer reviewers. This training prepares you to review submissions to the International Journal of Art Therapy.
ARTiculate courses
ARTiculate for staff in education and social care
Day 1: Friday 24 January 2025
Day 2: Friday 28 February 2025
Day 3: Friday 28 March 2025
Online via Zoom
We've designed this course to better equip education and social care professionals to use art safely and effectively as a communication tool when supporting young people with a range of issues such as trust, relationship building and emotional literacy.
CPD courses
Art therapy with young people who self-harm and/or express suicidal ideation
Saturday 25 January 2025
Online via Zoom
The world is constantly changing and can be a confusing and seemingly terrifying environment for many young people. Sadly, the numbers of young people who self-harm and express suicidal ideation is increasing. This course introduces practitioners to many of the issues surrounding self-harm and explores how art therapy can be an effective intervention.
CPD courses
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy training - Level 1
Friday 31 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
Online via Zoom
This is a practical course to help you develop your dyadic art therapy work, whether you are experienced in working dyadically or have never practiced in this way.
CPD courses
Nature-based art therapy: principles and practice
Friday 7 - Saturday 8 February 2025
Online via Zoom
This course offers an introduction to nature-based art therapy. If you are curious about what it means to be working in natural environments, this course will introduce you to the principles and how to practise it safely.
CPD courses
EMDR meets art therapy for children, young people, and adults
Saturday 22 February 2025
Online via Zoom
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be used as a treatment for people who have a diagnosis of PTSD/C-PTSD, depression, OCD, and eating disorders, to name a few. This course introduces practitioners to the potential of EMDR as a useful tool and signposts to training and accreditation.
Masterclasses
Masterclass in trauma-informed art therapy practice
Tuesday 25 - Wednesday 26 February 2025
Online via Zoom
Trauma therapy is based on three core principles: stabilisation, trauma exploration, and integration. This masterclass will focus on art-based exercises for stabilising clients, applying pendulation and titration for safe trauma exploration, and using a bottom-up approach for cognitive integration of new paradigms.
Introduction and Foundation courses
Introduction to the profession of art therapy
Saturday 1 March 2025
Online via Zoom
Are you looking for a new career that involves helping others, creativity, and personal growth? Whether you are starting to shape your professional path or want to change an established career, this introduction day will give you a chance to find out if the profession of art therapy may be for you.
CPD courses
Working with looked after and adopted children: complex trauma and art therapy
Friday 7 - Saturday 8 March 2025
Online via Zoom
This course outlines the legal and regulatory framework governing working with children who are looked after, on Special Guardianship orders, in kinship care, or adoption. It promotes best practice in working safely, ethically and effectively with this group of children, many of whom have experienced complex trauma.
Accredited Diplomas
Art therapy supervision diploma
Start date: 18 and 19 March 2025 (both days)
Online
This Level 6 Accredited Diploma has been tailor-made by the British Association of Art Therapists and is accredited by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB). This intensive theory-informed and practice-based course will equip you with the knowledge and skills required to provide effective, inspiring, ethical, and art-based supervision.
CPD courses
Art therapy with groups of children
Friday 21 March 2025
Online via Zoom
This course will support your understanding of what to consider in order to set up and facilitate art psychotherapy groups with primary age children within schools and child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
CPD courses
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy - Level 2
Friday 28 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Online via Zoom
Dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy is a way of working which focuses directly on the child’s primary attachment relationship. This course equips art therapists who are already developing a dyadic art therapy practice with what they need to feel confident and competent to work in this way.
Frequently asked questions
Bookings for our online Introduction, Foundation, ARTiculate, CPD and Masterclass courses close one week before the start date, at 10.00am.
Joining instructions and materials will be available in your Memberzone, under bookings, once bookings have closed. A reminder email will be sent out to delegates one week before the course.
It is the attendees’ responsibility to check they have access to the joining instructions before the course. Contacting the office on the day or evening before the start date will not always be responded to prior to the course starting.
Employer funded bookings are available for our online Introduction, Foundation, ARTiculate, CPD and Masterclass courses.
These bookings can be made on our website by paying by card at no extra cost. The booking should be made on the delegate’s account as we will need their contact details for the course. If they don’t have an account they can create one for free here. The employer will be required to provide their credit/debit card details to complete the payment. Please also tick the employer funded option at checkout.
If your employer wants to pay by invoice, you will need to complete our Invoice Details Request – Course Booking Form, and return it to us along with a PO number. Please note, we cannot accept the form without a PO number. Please note, there is an additional £20 admin fee for bookings via invoice.
If you need further assistance, please contact us at events@baat.org.
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