Occupation Atlasart therapist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/eb48ccbd-75f2-4799-81be-443034858473
art therapist
Art therapists help patients overcome psychological and emotional difficulties through an artistic process which reflects emotions and feelings, focusing on patients who suffer a variety of problems such as mental, psychological, and behavioural disorders in order to facilitate self-understanding and awareness.
Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
SAISocial · Artistic · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social5.64
- A Artistic5.49
- I Investigative3.67
- R Realistic2.99
- C Conventional2.86
- E Enterprising2.32
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Art Therapists (29-1129.01): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (50)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply art therapy interventions
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- assess art therapy sessions
- assess the patient's therapeutic needs
- behavioural therapy
- challenge patient behaviour by means of art
- cognitive psychology
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- develop educational materials on art therapy
- educate on the prevention of illness
- enable patients to explore artworks
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- fine arts
- follow clinical guidelines
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- health care legislation
- human psychological development
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- manage healthcare users' data
- organise relapse prevention
- prepare treatment plan for art therapy
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- psychological theories
- psychopathology
- refer healthcare users
- respond to changing situations in health care
- schedule artistic activities
- sociology
- take referred patients
- techniques of practice in art therapy
- theory of art therapy
- use art in a therapeutic setting
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional (16)
- applied music therapy
- apply psychoanalysis
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- define creative components
- handle patient trauma
- neurophysiology
- pedagogy
- philosophy
- practice gestalt therapy
- psychoanalysis
- psychosociology
- relaxation techniques
- sexology
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
- victimology
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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