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About Fda Creative Arts For Health And Wellbeing in University of Suffolk

This dynamic course is designed to enable you to work with groups using the creative arts in art, health, care or education contexts. Creative activity is known to have tangible benefits on health and wellbeing. The arts, creative practice and the human imagination are all agents of wellness, they encourage resilience, flourishing and in mental health are an established means of aiding recovery. You will examine concepts of psychotherapy, while developing creative skills and applying this to supporting the work of others.

The FdA Creative Arts for Health and Wellbeing is designed to be combined with employment or a voluntary placement while studying to gain vital relevant experience and use creativity to engage communities in ways that enrich their lives.

Career opportunities

On successful completion of our Foundation Degree, you will have gained knowledge of a variety of relevant demographics and a sound working understanding of the professional frameworks of creative arts in therapy. This will allow you to pursue a range of related careers or further study with our BA (Hons) Applied Care Practice or BA (Hons) Arts Practice top-up awards.

Past students have gained funding to set up community provision and self-employed peripatetic services for schools pastoral needs.

Entry requirements

• IELTS 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components) where English is not the students' first language.

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