EDPS 50900 - Expressive Arts: Music, Movement, And Spiritual Expression

Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides an introduction to the creative process and the use of that process in development of music, movement, and spiritual expression in traditions and cultures of healing. It presents evidence that the expansion of the creative potential with all of us is valuable for professional counselors to recognize and use in treatment. Further, the course will include definitions, historical roots, theoretical underpinnings, and basic elements of music, movement, and spiritual expression in art therapy. Course topics will include an examination of the major contributors in the field, and how music, movement, and spiritual expression can be used to affect behavioral, emotional, and psychological changes, and how art therapy can be used in the context of various psychological approaches. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

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