MA ART Therapy, NYU, an art therapy specialty, combines psychotherapy with visual art practice to give play to the creative power of art for clinical evaluation and treatment. NYU advocates academic research and evidence-based clinical practice, cross-cultural ability of social justice and proficiency in developing technology.

It has become our daily habit to pay attention to and face the epidemic situation. The overwhelming news every day also puts a huge burden on many people's psychology. And art has always been shouldering the task of healing the soul and transferring emotional power. As a professional discipline, art healing is to keep a pure place in the heart of contemporary people.

Art healing first appeared in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. During World War I, a large number of post-war PTSD patients appeared in the United States. After a series of clinical studies, Art intervention therapy became the most important treatment method at that time This theory and profession also continue to this day.

　　NYU New York University Across the two colleges of art and health care, this art healing specialty also has a long history. Based on the people-oriented principle, Guided by interdisciplinary visual art practice and contemporary psychoanalysis theory , and based on the research of widespread psychological diseases, the task of artistic healing of attachment and event psychological trauma.

This two-year master's degree combines psychotherapy and visual art practice, Clinical evaluation and treatment with artistic creativity Through academic research and clinical practice, NYU has developed learning objectives for students from three dimensions:

　　 a. Cognition (theoretical basis)

Students will master solid psychological knowledge, And gained a lot of clinical theoretical knowledge through a series of internship opportunities The course also contains important professional ethics to guide students to think objectively in difficult situations.

　　 b. Psychology (professional skills)

Students will learn and target art therapy for different groups of people, and master what can help psychological problems in the current global society, Ability to coordinate and solve problems with multiculturalism 。

　　 c. Emotion (attitude/behavior)

　　 Students will have the dual identity of art therapist and artist , develop the clinical treatment ability that can be fully displayed only through deep personal creativity, as well as sympathy and sensitivity to patients.

Every student who successfully graduated from NYU's art therapy major Obtained the primary certification of internationally recognized art therapists 。

At present, art healing is a representative discipline of interdisciplinary research in the field of art and medicine. Relevant disciplines have been set up in Britain, America, Europe and Japan, and there are different research directions according to the advantages and priorities of colleges and universities. But generally speaking, colleges and universities only set up art healing majors at the graduate stage, because the essence is that students need to have mastered the basic ability of art creation, and the focus of training is more focused on the realization of "healing".

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