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Creative Arts Therapy

ANZACATA

Creative Arts Therapists are allied health professionals who use creative processes to help students explore feelings that may be hard to put into words, using approaches that reduce anxiety, improve self-awareness and find new pathways to healing.

  • Online
  • ACT
  • NSW
  • NT
  • QLD
  • SA
  • Tas
  • Vic
  • WA

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: AHPA; NDIS; Approved elsewhere: VIC

Product type: Program; Professional learning; Presentation by an expert or speaker ; Drama performance; Whole school approach or initiative; Educator wellbeing resources or services; External support services

Contact details

ANZACATA
ABN: 63 072 954 388

https://www.anzacata.org/

member.services@anzacata.org

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

  • Grief and loss

  • Self-esteem and body image

  • Drug and alcohol education

  • Respectful relationships and consent education

  • Suicide and self-harm

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

  • Humanities and Social Science

  • The Arts

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1), Targeted small group early intervention (Tier 2), Intensive individualised approach (Tier 3)

Communities: Diverse cultures or language groups, Faith-based, First Nations, Neurodiversity or disability, Rainbow and LGBTQIA+

Context: School or centre-based, Outside School Hours Care (OSHC), E-schools

Main beneficiaries: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 8, Year 9, Year 12

Delivery style: Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

Creative Arts Therapy is an experiential psychotherapeutic approach offered by qualified practitioners utilising a range of creative modalities. It is holistic, attending to emotional, cognitive, physical and spiritual wellbeing and aligns well with indigenous and non-indigenous models of health and wellbeing.

Use the ANZACATA directory to FIND A THERAPIST in your area. All the therapists listed in the directory are professional members of ANZACATA and are qualified to the highest international standards.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor

Evidence

Creative Arts Therapy is conducted by university trained clinicians using evidenced-informed psychotherapeutic interventions, such as CBT, DBT, trauma informed counselling, ACT and similar. A summary report of 40 large scale RCT, meta-analysis and systematic reviews can be found here.