Graduate Diploma of Creative Therapies

The Graduate Diploma of Creative Therapies will provide you with a sound theoretical and practical foundation in creative therapies - therapies that include art, play, dance, drama, and music.

Specifically, this course has been designed to equip practitioners who work with diverse client groups to utilise creative therapies in your practice.

This course also imparts the necessary skills in research, evaluation, and professional practice to enable you to choose suitable therapies and to accommodate the unique challenges of each client.

The course blends Western approaches with Aboriginal healing practices and knowledges.

The course is designed for people working in health, community, justice, education, and cognate fields as well as individuals who work in Aboriginal and cross-cultural communities.

Core Units(6 units) - 60cp

Compulsory Core units totalling 60 credit points as per the list of units detailed below: SWK556 Trauma Informed Practice SWK571 Creative Therapy: Principles and Practices SWK573 Creative Ways of Working with Diverse Groups (available from 2021) SWK574 Creative Ways of Working with Trauma (available from 2021) SWK575 Creative Approaches to Case Work and Assessments (available from 2021) SWK576 Research and Evaluation of Creative Therapies (available from 2021)

Specialist Electives(2 units) - 20cp

Specialist Elective units totalling 30 credit points selected from the list of available units detailed below: IAS530 Neocolonialism, Advocacy and the Critique of Development IAS533 Indigenous Knowledges and Epistemologies PHM525 Indigenous Health Research PHM527 Health Research Skills PHM588 Qualitative Research Methods PHM593 Tropical Child and Adolescent Health

- 80cp

Total Credit Points

Successful completion of a bachelor degree or equivalent or a Graduate Certificate of Creative Therapies from Charles Darwin University.