• Qualifications: Post graduate- 2/3 years; U.K trained, Crawford, Cork and Queen’s Belfast.
• Registration- ensures ethical and legal compliance. Registration is reviewed every 2 years and CPD Continued professional development (continual training and updating of skills) is mandatory. At present there is no registration system for art therapists in the South of Ireland.
• Supervision (i.e. Therapy about their therapy practice). – All therapists are obliged to undergo Supervision and they should discuss this with every client.
• Insurance: legally have to be insured (won’t get insurance if not fully trained)
• Memberships; IACAT-The Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists www.iacat.ie.
And BAAT -The British Association of Art Therapists
Filed under: What is Art Therapy?
