Program Description

 

Art Therapy Program Description and Goals

Imagine a diverse education, rigorous supervision, clinical experience, and professional development. This is what the Nazareth Art Therapy program proposes: all that and a commitment to spiritual values based in a classical, medical model. Learners, informed by

aesthetic, ethical, and holistic exploration, engage in the general practice of clinical art therapy with a wide range of media, settings and populations. The preparation emphasizes diagnosis Working with a resident at Legacy Willow Pond Communityand assessment of patients to determine appropriateness for art therapy treatment (e.g., individual, group, and/ or family therapy). Theories learned in class are directly applied in clinical work with clients.

Apprentices exit well seasoned in assessment and evaluation techniques, and are able to communicate their findings both through written reports and as experienced lecturers and workshop leaders.

The hallmark of this program is the clinical emphasis, multiple approaches and exposure to varying disorders. Learners depart with a minimum of 1200 hours (maximum of 1800 hours) of internship experience servicing diverse, patient populations. Envision arriving at a prospective job site armed with experience, knowledge, and confidence.

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Music Therapy Program Description and Goals

The Music Therapy specialization in Creative Arts Therapy offers graduate students an opportunity to gain and refine skills in an interdisciplinary, personalized setting.  The on-campus clinic serves children and adults and music therapy is provided as a stand-alone service or in co-treatment with Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Art Therapy.  Further diverse clinical experience is possible because of the over 50 music therapists working in the greater  Rochester area.

Graduate Music Therapy students study core classes with their Art Therapy peers, exploring psychotherapeutic principles and their application to music therapy practice.  Music Therapy coursework calls for in-depth, qualitative examination of clinical practice, as well as a focus on music neuroscience.  Independent study and research/thesis classes allow students to concentrate on a specific area of practice, refining skills and gathering data on efficacy.  Current graduate research includes such varied topics as the personal reflections on music by persons with Williams' syndrome, and the effect of drumming on self-ratings of depression in elderly Spanish-speaking clients.

The Music Therapy specialization program includes tracks for both MT-BCs (48 hours) and Masters-Equivalency students -- those who have an undergraduate degree in music or music education, who wish to pursue their music therapy board-certification and Master's degree (60 hours). 

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History and Location

Nazareth College's program in Art Therapy, founded by Dr. Ellen G. Horovitz, gained approval by the American Art Therapy Association in 1990. The program grew out of an existing merger with the former Hillside Children's Center program in Creative Arts Therapy (located in Rochester, NY). In 1992, a union between the Creative Arts therapy Program and Nazareth College was created in order to offer students an education which granted a master's degree. At that time, the academic component of the Hillside Children's Center program was moved to the Nazareth College campus and augmented with additional course work in order to enhance the educational possibilities for matriculated, degree-seeking students. Today, the program has blossomed into an interdisciplinary format which dovetails with the School of Health and Human Services. There are over 60 placement opportunities within the art therapy training program. Students are exposed to a variety of placements that range from working with myraid populations. Nazareth's program is heavily embedded in a classical, medical model with a clinical component that hinges on didactic learning.

Although the clinically based model is still applicable to the program, three key elements were paramount in structuring the Nazareth College art therapy program. Embracing the concept of developing an "education for life" was critical in the composition of the program. Moreover, integrating this framework into an ethical viewpoint that would influence students in their vocational life plan was tantamount to preserving a commitment to the third area of concern, community service. As a result, the Graduate Art Therapy Program fabricated a mission statement that incorporates the vision of the old (Hillside) and defines the conception of the future.

The Music Therapy program at Nazareth College is over a quarter-century old, and graduate programming was added in 2006.  Dr. Bryan Hunter, head of the CAT program, has the first license for Creative Arts Therapists issued in the State of New York, and he a current board member and past chair of the New York State Board for Mental Health Practitioners. 

Nazareth Music Therapy graduates work throughout the country, but have also established a large, thriving music therapy community in the Rochester area.  Music therapists from other programs who have moved to Rochester have broadened the diversity of clinical practice, providing Nazareth students with rich experience in their education and training.

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Program Requirements:


Program Content Requirements 60 credits
All courses are 3 credits unless indicated

Core Courses Shared by Art Therapy & Music Therapy
(27 credits)

CAT 500 Human Development & Assessment across the Creative Arts Therapies

CAT 650 Ethical I& Multicultural Issues in Clinical Documentation & Practice

CAT 542 Group Therapy Counseling Techniques

PSY 534 Psychopathology of Childhood, Adolescence & Adulthood
CAT 684 Current Topics in Play Therapy

PSY 535 Principles & Techniques of Counseling

CAT 526 Family Therapy & Counseling

CAT 677 Methods & Research

CAT 530 Culminating Project & Thesis (I)

CAT 532 Culminating Project & Thesis (II)

CAT 502 Child Abuse: Maltreatment & Reporting ( 0 cr.- 2 hr mandatory workshop)

 

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Art Therapy Required Courses

ATR 522 Assessment, Diagnosis & Counseling I

ATR 523 Assessment, Diagnosis & Counseling II

ATR 528 Art Therapy Theories & Practice

ATR 504 Art Therapy Internship & Counseling Techniques

ATR 505 Art Therapy Internship & Counseling Techniques

ATR 506 Art Therapy Internship & Counseling Techniques

ATR 508 Art Therapy Internship & Counseling Techniques

ATR 650 Methods and Materials in Art Therapy

 

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Music Therapy
Required Courses

MTR 502 Advanced Psychology of Music

MTR 520 History & Philosophy of Music Therapy

MTR 600 Research in Music Therapy

MTH 522 Theory & Practice of Music Therapy - I

MTH 523 Theory & Practice of Music Therapy - II

MTR 506 Music Therapy Internship

MTR 508 Music Therapy Internship

MTR 652 Methods & Materials in Music Therapy

 

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Electives (9 credits)

CAT 548 Alcoholic Family Systems & Counseling

CAT 524 Art Therapy and the Chemically Dependent/Substance Abuse Client
CAT 680- Contemporary Issue  is Art Therapy ( these classes are subject to change depending on offerings)

ATR 546 Phototherapy, Techniques & Counseling
CAT 683 Foundatons of Play Therapy

PTR 503 Kinesiology

CAT 536 The Art of Transformation: Exploring Transcendence

CAT 550 Case Management of the Chemical /Substance Abuse Client

CAT 613 Intercultural Art Therapy

CAT 682 Dance/ Movement Therapy

CAT 683 Cross Patterning & Bodywork

Course Descriptions available through the on-line Graduate Catalog.

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