Presentation of a psycho-pedagogical training model focused on the approach of integrated arts therapies
Anna Damiani
This article focuses on the importance of promoting an integrated disciplinary approach in the structuring of a training course, aimed at acquiring knowledge and skills for the exercise of arts therapies, understood in this context, in a broader sense of «art-therapy disciplines», including the Music therapy, the Dance Movement therapy, the Therapy Theater and the plastic-figurative art (more commonly called art therapy as the first in order of appearance in the international training scene). The arts therapies, or more correctly the «art-therapy disciplines», are laboratory intervention techniques that involve the use of a specific artistic mediator. The basic assumption of this proposed training course is the belief, supported empirically and scientifically, that the four disciplines should be considered interconnected to each other and should be used in an «integrated pedagogical and psychology approach». This is confirmed by the fact that the success of each art therapy laboratory depends on the ability of the conductor to identify the most appropriate artistic strategies in relation to the disabilities and pathologies to be treated and not to the respect of the methodological specificities of the individual art-therapy disciplines.
Keywords
Arts therapies, integrated training, multiplicity of contexts.