Art Therapy
Certificate Programme
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow.
Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.
-- Joan Miro
AT2132
Family Therapy And
Art of Parenting
Parenting plays a significant role in children’s development process, yet it is full of changes and challenges. Throughout the developmental stages from a newborn baby to a grown-up adult, there are different changes and needs for different stages, in which both parents and children are required to adapt to in accordance. This course addresses in details on the issues faced by parents throughout children’s different developmental stages, including parental stress, changes in identity, and common challenges. You can be inspired through reviewing and re-understanding parenting through the lens of art, also learn to enhance parenting and relieve parental stress by adopting the concept of pursuing beauty in life. This allows establishment of beautiful relationship with children, such that children can be facilitated to author their beautiful life.
Course Objective
Parenting Psychology
Understand the possible challenges and obstacles faced by parents in children's different developmental stages, along with the psychological needs of both parties.
Beauty in Parenting
Reviewing parenting through the artistic aesthetic perspective to appreciate the beauty in the parent-child relationship.
Family Art Application
Using the family therapy as the blueprint to learn to use art in enhancing the parenting effectiveness and relieving parental stress.
Self-Review & Adjustment
Review on own development and concepts about family to make positive adjustment with the aim of improving the parent-child relationship.
