Creative Arts & Psychomotor/movement Therapies

Creative Arts & Psychomotor/movement Therapies are forms of treatment for clients with psychological, psychosocial or psychosomatic disorders and/or other disabilities. Creative Arts & Psychomotor/movement Therapy makes use of the media drama, art, music or psychomotor/movement. A Creative Arts & Psychomotor/movement Therapist specializes in one of these media.

Creative arts and psychomotor/movement has helped people heal and supported them in dealing with problems for centuries. Telling stories, acting, painting, singing, drawing, dancing and playing can help to put daily worries aside or to work through grief and pain. A Creative Arts or Psychomotor/movement Therapist focuses on the use of drama, art, music or psychomotor movement to achieve therapeutic aims. In the therapy process, the client expresses him or herself through the use of the chosen medium that supports the healing process or improves the quality of life. In an ever changing process, the Creative Arts & Psychomotor/movement Therapist works purposefully and methodically to influence the client’s problem. In Creative Arts & Psychomotor/movement Therapy, the client actively participates in the medium process, observes the medium and (where possible) reflects upon the experience of the activity and the use of the medium. There is an explicit connection between activities in the medium and the problems of the client; this connection is also evident between the transformation processes facilitated by the medium and those needed by the client. Creative Arts & Psychomotor/movement Therapists work with children, adolescents, adults, or the elderly in individually and groups-settings. A Creative Arts & Psychomotor/movement Therapist can work independently as well as as part of a multi-disciplinary team. A Creative Arts & Psychomotor/movement Therapist can work together with other therapists, teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, doctors, nurses, social workers and supporting collogues; he or she regularly contributes to treatment plan of clients, organizes work condition and supervises students and/or colleagues.
 

Drama Therapist. Acting, playing in an as-if situation and creating different roles are ways of working that are commonly used in drama therapy. By using body language, movement, voice work, miming, improvisation, spontaneity, communication and playing together, inner emotions are given form and the client gains insight into him or herself. In drama therapy, clients can experience a new flexibility, try out different roles and change their way of perceiving the world. The drama therapist’s treatment aims are adjusted to the needs of the client.

Art Therapist. Pencil, ink and paper, paint, wood, iron or clay are media for art therapy. In art therapy, things are given form by working with the material; an image of the self appears. A picture or a sculpture for example, an illustration that is ready for the client’s own interpretation. The art therapist supports this process of finding an artistic form and encourages transformation in therapy by means of well defined treatment methods.

Music Therapist. Singing, playing, improvising, composing, and listening to music; music therapy connects via the emotional and structuring effect of music. Using your voice, piano, guitar, wind-, string- and percussive instruments in active, or listening to and associating on composed music in receptive form; music touches and structures human emotions. Deep impressions of listening to a piece of music stay imprinted in your memory. Without knowing it, you silently sing or your foot moves in the rhythm of the sound. The music therapist uses these qualities of music, sings or plays and engages clients in the touching process of personal alteration of a defined treatment.
 

Psychomotor/movement Therapist. Psychomotor/movement therapy uses forms of movement that come from play and sports as well as from body activities like relaxation and bodyawareness. In psychomotor/movement therapy, the human psyche and physical appearance and bodymovement in the here and now are connected. The ‘how’ and the ‘who’ of a person become apparent through activities focused on body and movement, and within these, changes can be made. A Psychomotor/movement Therapist also works with the paradox of moving the immovable and being still in the midst of action.

Work Opportunities. Creative Arts & Psychomotor/movement Therapists find work in psychiatric and medical hospitals, schools, children and adolescent centers, social institutes, nursing homes, forensic detention centers and services for the handicapped in special settings.