This course is open to qualified Art Therapists and Art Therapy Trainees only. Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy is a brief focused acceptance based treatment. It is an intervention, which is both psycho-educational, guided self-help and psychotherapeutic.

Convenors: Gillian Lock

This course is for qualified Art Therapists or other qualified creative therapists only. Dyadic Parent-Child Art Psychotherapy is a way of working which focuses directly on the child’s primary attachment relationship. The therapist does not become the child’s therapist or the caregiver’s therapist but the relationship’s therapist.

Convenors: Anthea Hendry and Katie Wilson

This course is for qualified mental health practitioners only. (psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, art therapists, drama therapists, play therapists etc.) You must be qualified and currently under a professional body which enables you to undertake mental health treatment as well as hold insurance. CATT is an internationally applied and well-established child-centred technique for treating developmental trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Convenors: Carly Raby

This course is for qualified Art Therapists and Art Therapy Trainees only Evidence is mounting that patient education can both increase the effectiveness of psychological therapy interventions by strengthening the therapeutic alliance and be a valid brief intervention in its own right. Psychoeducational approaches which are overly academic or cognitively based can be less effective in situations where learning and attention can be compromised by emotional distress or developmental issues.

Convenors: Neil Springham

This training day is for both experienced and newly qualified art psychotherapists only who are thinking about becoming self-employed either as a private or independent practitioner. The aim of the course is to equip art therapists to work safely, ethically and legally as self-employed practitioners.

Convenors: Anthea Hendry & Themis Kyriakidou

This level 2 dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy training is for art therapist who have already completed the Level 1 dyadic parent-child art psychotherapy training run in London, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Manchester or Belfast since 2014.

Convenors:

Anthea Hendry, Lizzie Taylor Buck, Katie Wilson & Amanda Platt

This training day is for both experienced and newly qualified art psychotherapists who are thinking about becoming self-employed practitioners either as a sessional worker, private practitioner or some other form of independent practitioner.

Convenors: Janet de Heger & Dave Rogers

The current sharp increase in children and young people’s mental health issues at a time of significant budget cuts means that services are struggling to meet this need. ARTiculate is designed and endorsed by BAAT specifically for staff in education settings who wish to be better equipped to support children and young people through art.

Convenors: Mary Rose Brady

This course is for qualified mental health practitioners only. (psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, art therapists, drama therapists, play therapists etc.) You must be qualified and currently under a professional body which enables you to undertake mental health treatment as well as hold insurance. CATT is an internationally applied and well-established child-centred technique for treating developmental trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Convenors: Carly Raby