COURSES

Kati 1: Art Therapy History                                                           
This course focuses on the role of art in healing practices from pre-history to the present. Students will explore parallels between traditional symbolic healing practices and the development of Art Therapy in art education, medicine, rehabilitation, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry.

Offered alternate years
Fall 2009 - during September intensive, online and class time

Kati 2: Art Therapy: Interpretive Methods
A variety of interpretative frameworks will be examined that can be applied to the practice of art therapy. Metaphor theory, structuralism, psychoanalytic theory, hermeneutics and the phenomenological method will be introduced and explored through art making and writing. A postmodern approach to interpretation will be used to examine art, nature, symbols, contemporary culture, fairytales and therapy.

Offered alternate years
Fall 2009 and winter and spring 2010 - during the intensives
Intensive course offered summer 2010                      

Kati 3: Art Therapy: Theory & Practice              
The examination of the theoretical foundations of art therapy will cover a wide spectrum of approaches to art therapy and the underlying theories. It will include psychoanalytical, object relations, existential, humanistic, developmental, cognitive, behavioural and gestalt orientations to art therapy.

Offered alternate years
Fall 2010 - during September intensive, online and class time

Kati 4: Art Therapy: Human Development            
Theories of human development will be considered in relationship to the practice of art therapy. Human development will look at the full life span and specific attention will be given to the theories of Freud, Erikson, Klein, Winnicott, Piaget and Greenspan. Current neuroscience and brain research will be discussed in relationship to attachment theory and art therapy practice.

Offered every year
Fall 2009 and winter 2010 - during the intensives, online and class time

Kati 10-1 & 10-2: Art Therapy Research: Qualitative Methods
This course orients students to the spectrum of qualitative research approaches, methodology, and related issues. It focuses on critical thinking and developing an outline for the major project / thesis. It includes the development and presentation of case studies.

Offered every year
Intensives, online and class time 

Kati 11: Art Therapy: Cultural Identity
This course orients students to the complexities of cultural influences in the therapeutic relationship. Cultural identity includes addressing age, generational influences, developmental and acquired disabilities, ethnicity, religion and spiritual orientation, socio-economic class, indigenous heritage, national origin and gender.

Offered alternate years
Winter/spring 2010 - intensives, workshops and class time
Summer workshops 2009 and as requested 

Kati 12: Art Therapy Readings                                                           
The focus of this course is on philosophical and theoretical orientations of contemporary art therapists. The intention in this course is to examine the role of art and the creative process in its application to therapy.

Offered alternate years
Winter/spring 2011 - intensives, workshops and class time   

Supervision
This seminar focuses on: 1) referrals, agency consultation, crisis intervention, limit setting, ethics, case review, and termination; 2) record keeping: clinical files, intakes, daily notes, assessments, summary reports, treatment plans and termination reports; 3) review of client art and clinical work; 4) exploration of transference and counter transference dynamics as they pertain to clinical work; 5) group work: designing, planning, setting goals and exploring issues and dynamics.

Offered every year
During intensives, weekly group or individual sessions
Distance students have online, email, or phone supervision
A summer semester of supervision can be contracted for separately  

The Kutenai Art Therapy Institute has hosted both national and provincial art therapy conferences. Workshops, summer school courses and mini-conferences are offered through each school year. We bring in noted art therapists from across Canada and around the world. See our Upcoming Events and Workshop pages.

Clinical practica are designed to provide practical experience in facilitating art therapy in a variety of settings. Students may work with children, adolescents adults, families, groups or individuals, the mentally ill, senior citizens, developmentally delayed adults, or the physically challenged. Kutenai Art Therapy Institute has established an extensive list of practicum locations. These include community services offices, residential homes, mental health centres, hospitals, schools, and transition houses. Other locations can be arranged according to the student's interest.