Creative Arts Therapies Are Universal

Integrating psychology and the arts, the Creative Arts in Therapy (CAT) program offers learning opportunities with people of all ages and diverse backgrounds, helping them find and maintain mind/body solutions. With equal focus on the arts, psychological theory and practical experiential skills, Creative Arts in Therapy students learn to be critical thinkers able to integrate creative, conceptual and clinical experience.

Artistic engagement is not the least of these. Creative engagement allows students to challenge themselves in a holistic, interactive manner — demanding the development of equanimity, frustration tolerance, appropriate expression, appropriate risk-taking, letting go and developing anew. It offers the opportunity to see, hear, move and experience the world in new ways; to think on many levels with openness to possibility.

Creative Arts in Therapy students concentrate in one of four creative areas: dance, music, theatre or visual art. This is a glimpse of the culmination of four years of work by our students in the visual arts.

I believe you will see that this year's seniors are courageously expressive, each in their very personal way.

— Leigh Davies, associate professor/director of the Creative Arts in Therapy program