• To give an understanding of the roles and essential skills of an art therapist
• To provide knowledge of why children make arts and their stages of development in arts and psychosocial
• To share some strategies, techniques and skills for non art therapists to use art as a tool to connect to children

• For clinicians and practitioners working with children including counselors, social workers, volunteers, occupational therapists, teachers, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, etc.
• Background in counseling is recommended
• No background in art is required

There are four segments in this program to provide a structure and systematic learning. Participants are invited for discussion and doing response art at the end of each segment. The first segment is an introduction and understanding of the roles, tasks, and skills of art therapists. Thereafter, theories and research of developmental stages of children arts and their psychosocial stages. The research about Western and Eastern culture will be covered, in particularly, related to Singapore culture. The second and third segments will cover some recommended strategies for non art therapists to use art as a tool to communicate and connect with children. Finally, some case studies about using art as therapy and in therapy, and some important tips for non art therapists using art. 

Trainer/Lecturer Profile:
The trainer is Paul T.S. Lee, an artist, art therapist and consultant and his brief profile:

• Qualifications: Master in Arts - Art Therapy (LaSalle College of the Arts), Bachelor degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Certificate from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
• Professional Experience: 20 years of teaching arts to children (since 1989), founded UniqArts and Technologies (since 1995) to provide arts as education, therapy, creativity, and consultation. Author of 5 drawing books series for children (1996, 1997)  Drawing-is-Easy
• Expertise: Children population and creative art therapy
• Other areas of interest:

1) Children with special needs
2) Adolescents (At risk teenagers)
3) Cancer patients
4) Art Therapy for Positive Thinking, Creativity, and Health care
• Now: Private practice in art therapy and running group using Creative Animation for at risk teenagers at a school for children with special needs. Started an interest group Positive HAT (Happiness Art Therapy) - Prevention is better than cure.

• Program fee: S$680/= per person. 
• Registration fee: $30/=
• Deposit of $100 during registration and booking.

• It is a full day program from 9am to 5pm
• Schedule is on weekdays, contact us to check latest available time slot

• This program is for a minimum group of 5 persons

• Total Course program is 8 hours, to be completed in a day
• Schedule is on weekdays, contact us to check latest available time slot
• This program is available on site, contact us for your needs

Testimonials from participants completed this program
 

"The Art Therapy course provided a very comprehensive understanding of the approaches, strategies and case studies of therapy for working with children. Looking at the art work helps in the learning process (Miss Koh, Counsellor)."	"Paul was very good in drawing specific examples and gave very clear structure and strategis on art therapy. It was very useful that case examples were shown to give an idea on how it can be implemented (Miss Carolyn Tan, Program Executive)"
"I find this session very good. Help me understand that Art is personal and help a person to identify herself in a given situation. It can also be wholesome and life loving. As long as I live I can engage in art (Mdm Eileen Chan, Volunteer)."	"I benefitted a lot from Paul's teaching and learnt that while words may lie, art does NOT lie. I find that Paul is an effective and engaging teacher who shares many of his practical experiences as a true art therapy practitioner. Thanks to Paul who has opened up a brand new vista of art therapy for counselling children (Mr. Marshall Lee, Volunteer)."
"It's eye-opening. Art should be free and unrestricted. Realised that art can bring health and wellness to both children and adults, I feel very inspired by Paul's teaching. I would encourage children, teens and adults to express themselves in art and to do it on a regular basis (Mdm Ellen Leong, Family Life Educator)."	"It's very new to me. Never used it. Very enlightening to know that there's such a practice to help someone who expresses him/herself better through art. Encouraging to hear of how kids are 'healed' after sessions of professional art therapy. Trainer has shared a wide scope of cases on kids with some emotional/psychological issues. Very systematic and clear in his sharing. Enjoyed the session a lot. Thanks and Excellent course. (Miss Liow)."
"It was an enriching experience to see how we can use art as a way to allow expression and to express feelings (Miss Goh, Social Worker)."	"Training was great as we get to understand how art can help children as well as adults. There was appropriate use of case studies to aid understanding (Petrina)"