Art psychotherapy:
The industry is still in the reclamation period, and there are many misunderstandings
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Music therapy, art therapy, dance therapy, drama therapy...an imported product that uses creative art as a therapeutic method—artistic psychotherapy. In recent years, the “returnee therapist” who came from his studies has sparked a spark in the market this year. Because of the promotion of the epidemic, it has entered the public eye and is forming a new industry.
However, the domestic training and certification system has not yet been perfected, and the increase in demand has forced it to face a mixed market situation before it has a firm foundation.
While professional therapists are struggling to "cultivate wasteland", they must not only explore localization problems, but also popularize and promote them to the public, guiding them to correctly understand disciplines and industries, and prevent risks.
"This is a necessary stage for emerging industries. We must be tolerant and vigilant," said a consultant.
The reporter exclusively interviewed therapists and practitioners active in the Guangzhou market to deeply analyze the "risks" and "opportunities" of this industry.
Planning/Guangzhou Daily All Media Editor Cao Teng and Zhang Yu
By Lin Lin, All Media Reporter, Guangzhou Daily
Art therapy
In European and American countries, music therapy, art therapy (especially art), dance therapy, drama therapy, and expression art therapy (comprehensive use of multiple artistic methods) are independent therapeutic disciplines, which are interdisciplinary with medicine and psychology. It has a history of nearly a hundred years.
These creative art therapies are different from conversational psychotherapy. They focus on non-verbal elements, body and creativity, and use different art forms to open the inner world of the visitor and show its content, so that the visitor can sort and repair the heart. Increase self-worth.
It has a rigorous training, certification, and supervision system, has entered the medical system as an auxiliary treatment method, and has been widely used and accepted in the market.
What kind of person is a true art therapist?
Phenomenon 1: There are many short-term training courses lasting 3-7 days on the market, the main purpose is to promote personal growth.
After Xiao Hu (pseudonym) participated in several art therapy courses and workshops in different studios, he believed that he had mastered the skills, opened up art therapy training courses, and claimed to be an art therapist.
Analysis: Before obtaining the German certification, Wang Yuchi, a dance therapist with 13 years of experience, experienced 330 hours of compulsory third-level courses, 270 hours of elective courses, 130 hours of experience, 180 hours of dance learning, 610 hours of internship hours, 130 hours of supervision hours, completed a 60,000-word professional thesis and passed the thesis defense.
Phenomenon 2: An art therapist discovered that there is no real expressional art therapist in the local expressive art association. They are all psychological counselors. They are optimistic about the development prospects of this field: "The only'therapist' who is most connected to art , I just like to play the violin."
Analysis: "Many people who want to study art therapy see the prospects of the industry. This is not a problem, but they must first face the real needs of the audience and are willing to help them." Since 2007, they have been using art. Yu Miao, an art specialist who helps children with special needs, said that art therapy is backed by deep psychological knowledge. If you want to engage in art therapy, you only have techniques and skills, and ignore the psychology, then you will lose your internal strength; and if you only have a psychology major, you don’t understand Needs, art cannot be used as an auxiliary tool for psychological use, so what is operability and effectiveness?
Phenomenon 3: A certain "therapist" has gained a lot of fan acclaim with the ability to "look at pictures and speak"-she asks the visitor to draw a self-proposition or a picture of the proposition, and then uses relevant psychological theories based on the elements that appear in the picture To judge the inner world of the visitor and make a "diagnosis".
Analysis: “Everyone’s expression belongs to him. The therapist must confirm with the visitor what kind of emotion they are expressing, rather than judge it himself.” said Luo Jingyi, an art teacher who has helped people with special needs through art for five years.
Yao Yonglei, an expression art therapist who was trained in Switzerland and worked in the United States, found that many visitors hope to get a solution from the therapist. "But as an expression art therapist, you cannot project your own ideas onto other people’s works, but Guide the other person to discover things from the work."
Story one
The 15-year-old Xiaohui (a pseudonym) has autism and intellectual disability, and acts of attacking others and playing with his own feces. His parents have depression, anxiety, and family relations.
During his hospital stay, Yao Yonglei treated him once a week. Three months later, he changed his behavior of playing with feces and changed to playing with mud. The original behavior of scribbling became a creation with his own characteristics.
Story two
Ms. Jia (pseudonym), who had a concentrated outbreak of depression in her 40s, was in serious condition. As long as she got out of bed, she needed the company of her family. She was unable to take care of herself and went out. She relied on a weekly psychological consultation interview.
Wang Yuchi felt that the interview was not effective and suggested that she join the dancing therapy group at the same time to get more support.
After persisting for 5 years, Ms. Jia basically returned to normal life, was able to take care of housework, and was able to work part-time, and started fitness and running, and participated in a marathon.
Status Quo: Music therapy is developing rapidly and the industry is fragmented and weak
Status 1: Music therapy "one step faster"
"In Guangzhou, there are more music therapists returning from overseas, and they are relatively active, and the field of art therapy is relatively unpopular." Chen Junjun is an art teacher, but continues to study art therapy.
The situation of fish fry and Luo Jingyi, who are more recognized in the industry in Guangzhou, are similar. They understand the art therapy system. Although they have been receiving training and practice, they insist on not calling themselves "art therapists" because they have not been certified.
The music therapists active in Guangzhou are mainly German certified music therapist Shi Jingjie and Australian certified music therapist Wen Yun.
In addition to the large number of returnees, Shi Jingjie believes that music therapy has relatively high awareness in several disciplines, which is related to the development of domestic discipline education: "Music therapy has been developed in China for more than 30 years, and more than a dozen universities have established For music therapy majors, while they train clinical professionals, they will also cultivate students’ scientific research capabilities. Many majors also choose to go abroad for further studies, pursuing master's and doctoral degrees. Music therapy students who graduated in recent years have a good employment situation. There is a shortage of supply."
According to Shi Jingjie, domestic colleges and universities have not yet opened art therapy, dance therapy, drama therapy and other professional disciplines, only a few colleges have elective courses.
"In general, these disciplines still lack the talent training of professional institutions."
Status two: insufficient public awareness of it
"The public's awareness of creative art therapy is still very low." Luo Jingyi believes that with awareness, the public will believe and then participate.
The reporter has learned that at present, some people are wary and resistant to various creative art therapy methods or do not understand them, or have misunderstandings and believe in mixed and irregular practices.
Take music therapy as an example. There are trainings and activities such as "music healing" and "music therapy" in the market, and the public does not have the ability to distinguish.
Shi Jingjie explained that music therapists who have received systematic learning and certification are based on science and evidence-based medicine. The music therapy process has a complete process and framework. The therapist needs to be supervised on a regular basis, so that it can be strictly controlled. It is called music therapy. The other forms mentioned above are used to distinguish music therapy in a literal sense. In fact, there are several situations: "The person who is doing music companionship or music soothing, music healing may not be a systematically trained music therapist. , So they don’t do real clinical therapeutic work; there is also a music therapist doing some popularization and promotion experience activities in the face of the public, which is not treatment either."
"Most people's perception of music and therapy is more like'music prescription', so that what we hear most is'isn't music therapy just listening to music?'" Wen Yun emphasized, "It's not A( Understand music) + B (understand psychology or medicine) = C (music therapist)." However, common misunderstandings often make it difficult for registered music therapists who truly study systematically and obtain professional qualifications.
Although the industry is still in the development stage and the overall volume is small, the market demand is increasing.
At the same time, many therapists work alone in their fields, and the industry as a whole has relatively little support.
"From the level of national professional certification, supervision system and peer support, they are all lacking." Shi Jingjie said.
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The development of the industry urgently needs to establish a training and certification system
Yao Yonglei believes that the size of the industry needs to be expanded, and the most important thing is to establish a system for training therapists: "If there is no learning and training system, the therapists will return from their studies abroad and be scattered to different cities. It is difficult to form a joint force. "On the other hand, she also emphasized the importance of associations: "The current industry is relatively disordered, and it has a certain relationship with the lack of professional and influential associations."
Yu Donghui, deputy chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Psychological Counseling and Therapy Committee and a senior psychological consultant, also pointed out that there is an urgent need to train teachers. He suggested that the psychological industry organize some professional consultants to receive international professional training, and after completion, they will be used as seeds The entire market, but he emphasized that we must first establish strict industry rules, and then cultivate teachers.
In addition, he emphasized the importance of establishing a public evaluation system: "User evaluation is very important. It is both a supervision and promotion for consultants."
"It is particularly important to establish a training system and a professional qualification certification system." Yumiao said that learning, assessment, supervision, and certification systems can standardize the development of the industry, but it is true that the industry is still in its infancy and has not yet reached this point. To be tolerant of the characteristics of this stage.
Li Lusi, a DvT (drama therapy) therapist at the American Developmental Transformation Institute, recommends that people interested in creative art therapy should understand the teacher’s professional qualifications before participating in the event, whether they have received systematic training provided by a qualified drama therapy academy, and whether they have been awarded Relevant graduation certificate, whether you have enough internship experience, and whether you are receiving supervision.