Creative Arts Therapy Careers

Succeeding as a Creative Professional
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-47652-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 543 g

Reihe: PERFORM

Creative Arts Therapy Careers is a collection of essays and interviews by working drama, dance/movement, music, art, poetry, and expressive arts therapists that shows theatre, dance, music, and visual arts students exactly how to turn their training into a career in psychotherapy.

Most creative arts students never hear about this career path until they stumble onto it by accident. A young performer or painter looking for what comes next after their degree searches for "careers in theatre" or "art career ideas" and finds acting jobs, teaching jobs, gallery jobs, nothing about the therapists across the country using drama, dance, music, art, poetry, and creative writing to help people process trauma, manage mental illness, and build a life. Existing therapy and psychology career guides don't fill the gap either: at best they mention "art therapy" as a single narrow specialty, without showing how six distinct creative arts therapy fields actually differ, train, and pay, or how the credentialing path works, which varies by field and rarely means what people assume it means.

This book closes that gap directly. Thirty essays and interviews, organized across five career stages, Getting Started, Sticking It Out, Finding Success, Getting Ahead, and Starting Again, walk through what working creative arts therapists actually experienced: choosing the right graduate program, how registration and certification work across each of the six fields, what it's really like working with at-risk populations in medical, educational, correctional, and mental health settings, and how practitioners have built, and rebuilt, careers and businesses around this work.

This book is written for undergraduate and graduate students in theatre, dance, music, and the visual arts who are wondering what comes next; for instructors and advisors preparing arts students for the professional world; and for working artists considering a second career that puts their training to direct use helping others heal.

If you've ever wondered what you could actually do with a degree in the arts beyond performing or exhibiting, this book was written for you.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bailey, Sally

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterleitung, Theatermanagement
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstförderung, Mäzenatentum, Auktionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Beratungspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Getting Started 2. Sticking it Out 3. Finding Success 4. Getting Ahead 5. Starting Again

Über Autor(innen)

Sally Bailey, MFA, MSW, RDT-BCT, is a Professor of Theatre and Director of the Drama Therapy Program at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. She also directs the Barrier-Free Theatre for adults with and without disabilities and worked for 13 years in the Washington, DC area as a registered drama therapist with recovering addicts and with people of all ages with disabilities. A past president of the North American Drama Therapy Association, she is a recipient of their 2006 Gertrud Schattner Award for distinguished contribution to the field of drama therapy in education, publication, practice, and service and their 2018 Teaching Excellence Award.