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About Us
The Art Therapy in
School Service is a cooperative of five state registered art therapists
with experience of working with children and adolescents in diverse
settings including schools, children's care homes and the NHS throughout
England. Our aim is to provide a complementary service to schools using
art therapy to address the needs of children with emotional and
behavioural difficulties.
We work individually with children in the separate schools and organisations. We work together to market ourselves, establish art therapy in schools, and provide education about art therapy. More importantly we support each other in our practice by participating in regular peer supervision and organisational meetings where we discuss practical issues as well as issues of our practice.
Art Therapy Package
Schools are encouraged to purchase art therapy for a minimum of one day a week for one school year. A short-term intervention may not give enough time for a child to explore strong and complex emotions and consequently may present difficulties for the art therapist when evaluating the efficacy of Art Therapy within that time.
It is important for art therapists to work closely with staff members and parents/carers and a one-day contract enables us to arrange meetings frequently and flexibly.
One day of art
therapy,each week,over 39 weeks provides:
• 4 individual
sessions of art therapy
(group work
may be arranged as appropriate, e.g. one group session and 2 individual
sessions)
• Availability to see parents/carers
• Attendance at multi-disciplinary meetings
• Feedback for staff (written reviews termly or annually, weekly verbal feedback, etc. )
• Administration (record keeping of each session, etc.)
• Staff presentations and workshops by request
• Schools are asked to provide art materials for art therapy.
The cost of one day is £210.
Over the course of an academic year ( 39 weeks), this equates to £8190. This fee is
subject to review under Agenda for Change.
• An
exploration of the basic principles of art therapy
practice. • A case study
presentation, illustrating some of the ways in which art therapy may be
used to facilitate positive change for a child. • Time for
discussion and to answer any other questions that staff may
have. If you are
interested in having an art therapy workshop or bringing art therapy to
your school,please Contact
Us To view the
Profiles of the ATISS Art Therapsits, click Here
Workshops
The package offered by
The Art Therapy in School Service includes a workshop for staff, which we
try to facilitate at an early stage of our work in a school. For
vulnerable young people an integrated system of support is very important,
and our aim is to demystify the art therapy process so that a strong
working liaison with staff can be established. Workshops are organised
according to the needs of a school, but usually run between one and two
hours. A typical session would include:
An experiential component where staff will have the
opportunity to use a variety of art materials. Structured
exercises will be used to help staff gain an insight into how
making artwork can be used as a form of non-verbal
communication, or as a way of expressing and thinking about
complex feelings.
The Art Therapy in School Service is also able to
facilitate workshops for other allied professionals such as
members of a Behavioural Support Team, Additionally Resourced
Centres etc.
Profiles
