Artistic Activity as Therapy

Objectives

Artistic Activity as Therapy aims to provide a basic approach for understanding the relationship between art and therapy, and more specifically, about the potential use of artistic tools through therapeutic practice or social intervention. It also aims to be an experience about the therapeutic resource for the students themselves, based on a structure of practical proposals for an artistic mediation workshop. Although the subject is suitable for all disciplines that have a socio-health approach, it is structured on the basis of occupational therapy.

The objectives are:

• Offer the student the opportunity to experience the possibilities of artistic tools and resources (writing, drawing, painting, photography...) in a social and health intervention.
• Provide the student with the ability to clearly distinguish the different ways of approaching the analytical tools and working objects of the disciplines of art therapy and artistic mediation.
• Foster the skills of project analysis, improvement of reflection capacities, establishment of working hypotheses, evaluation and processing of results.
• Provide the student with a space to reflect on their own creative process and assess the advantages and disadvantages of using artistic tools in social/therapeutic intervention.

Learning outcomes

• RA1. Know the basic principles of some different artistic resources to be used as tools in a therapeutic and/or social work framework.
• LO2. Know the principles of social and therapeutic interventions such as art therapy or artistic mediation and their differences and particularities.
• LO3. He solves problems and situations inherent in occupational therapy (and other related disciplines) with entrepreneurial and innovative attitudes.
• LO4. Master English as a social and health communication tool.

Skills

Specific skills

• Carry out appropriate treatment, respecting different phases and basic principles, through therapeutic occupations based on occupational science in the different areas of occupation, analyzing performance components and contexts.
• Know about, assess, analyze, prepare and participate in health education and promotion within the scope of occupational therapy in order to prevent occupational dysfunctions in general and those following medical, surgical and psychiatric disorders and social maladaptation.
• Understand and interpret information sources, oral and written, specializing in health sciences, in a second language.
• Use significant activity, ergonomics, new technology and assistive technology in occupational therapy throughout the life cycle.
• Use strategies and skills that enable effective communication with patients, families and social groups, and expression of their concerns and interests.

Basic skills

• Students can apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and have competencies typically demonstrated through drafting and defending arguments and solving problems in their field of study.

Core skills

• Project the values of entrepreneurship and innovation in one's academic and professional career, through contact with a variety of practical contexts and motivation for professional development.
• Use oral, written and audiovisual forms of communication, in one's own language and in foreign languages, with a high standard of use, form and content.

Content

Theoretical framework

1. Presentation
2. Frames of reference: art therapy
3. Frames of reference: artistic mediation
4. Collage
5. drawing
6. writing
7. photography
8. Other languages
9. Questions of practice
10. examples

Routes of experimentation

1. Practical proposals based on theoretical foundations
2. Exhibition and exchange of experiences on practice

Evaluation

According to the academic regulations for undergraduate studies at UVic-UCC, there is only one official call that foresees two different evaluation periods:

• Ordinary period, which takes place in an integrated way in the training process and within the teaching period.
• Complementary assessment period, in which the student can be assessed again for those tasks, activities or tests that he has not passed satisfactorily within the framework of the first period.

ordinary period

The continuous evaluation of the activities carried out by the student is carried out through:

Individual activities (recoverable)

1. Final art project (25% of the final grade)
   • The purpose of this assessment is to carry out a personalized artistic and creative project so that the student can experience his own creative process.
   • The proposal is personalized, suggested based on the evolution of each student.
2. Field notes (25% of the final grade)
   • The aim of this assessment is to make a field diary with the reflections and connections that each student produces based on the practical proposals and the visualization of the audiovisual theoretical content.
3. Bibliographic research and inspired artistic production (20% of the final grade)
   • The aim is to carry out a bibliographic search on artists and, with this information, generate an artistic proposal of your own.
   • It is assessed: the ability to analyze the tools, the own contributions and the originality and congruence of the proposal. The ability to research and justify consulted sources, proposals and methods is also taken into account.

Group participation (non-refundable)

1. Participation in the virtual proposals in the forum (10% of the final grade)
   • Participation in the experimental proposals carried out by the teacher in each of the weekly sessions is valued. As a maximum assessment, communication with the rest of the students based on their creations and virtual exhibition is taken into account.
2. "Exquisite Corpse" (20% of final grade)
   • The aim is to do a group activity in the virtual forum, so that the materials always start from the previous creation of another student. The ability to interact during creation and the ability to reflect on what is produced are valued.

The subject is approved if a grade equal to or higher than 5 is obtained. The final grade of the subject is the result of the weighting of the grades obtained in each of the parts. To be able to do the weighting you need:

• That the grade of the final project is equal to or higher than 5.
• That the average of all recoverable activities (except the final project) is equal to or greater than 5.

Complementary assessment period

The student who does not pass some of the activities considered recoverable can recover them during this period. The evaluation of this second period cannot account for more than 50% of the final mark of the subject.

The final grade for this period is calculated by taking the weighted average of the grades obtained in each of the parts, using the last grade obtained in the ordinary and the supplementary assessment. The subject is passed if a grade ≥5 is obtained.

important

Plagiarism or copying someone else's work is penalized at all universities and, according to the Rules of coexistence of the UVic-UCC, constitute serious or very serious offences. Therefore, in the course of this subject, plagiarism or the misappropriation of other people's texts or ideas (see what is considered plagiarism) and improper or undeclared use of artificial intelligence in an activity automatically results in a suspension or other disciplinary action.

To cite texts and materials appropriately, consult the academic citation guidelines and guidelines available on the UVic Library website.

Methodology

In line with the UVic-UCC regulations for accreditation and demonstration of knowledge and skills in third languages, this subject is included in the "Plan for the implementation and deployment of English in undergraduate degrees at the FCSB". This implies that it includes training and evaluation activities in the English language to accompany the student in the achievement of this competence.

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Bibliography

Key references

• Case, C., Dalley, T. (2014). The handbook of Art Therapy. Routledge.
• Klein, J.P. (2006). Arteterapia, una introducción. Octaedro.
• Marxen, E. (2011). Diálogos entre arte y terapia. Gedisa.
• Rubin, J. (2010). Introduction to Art Therapy. Routledge.
• Schaverien, J. (1999). The revealing image. JKP.

Further reading

Teachers will provide complementary bibliography and compulsory reading throughout the course via the Virtual Campus.