The CELA academic year runs approximately September 1st through June 30th and is made up of four, 10-week sessions. The Intermodal Creative Arts Therapist (ICAT) Certification Program requires the completion of General Education and Arts Area coursework, required readings, and a supervised fieldwork component. CELA classes are all online. Each online class is 30 contact hours. Students must pass each CELA online course with a grade of B- or higher in order to receive their certification.
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General Education Requirements
For students inside the US:
ICAT certification requires that students have independent licensure in their state.
There are 4 General Education courses that CELA requires for ICAT certification. Typically these courses are taken as part of a master’s degree program and are the requirements for licensure in one’s state. CELA accepts transfer credits for the following required General Education courses:
- PY001 Culture & Diversity
- PY002 Ethics & Standards
- PY003 Human Growth & Development Across the Lifespan
- PY005 Theories of Counseling & Psychology
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For students outside the US:
There are 4 General Education courses that CELA requires for ICAT certification. Transfer credit may be approved and is determined on a case-by-case basis:
- PY001 Culture & Diversity
- PY002 Ethics & Standards
- PY003 Human Growth & Development Across the Lifespan
- PY005 Theories of Counseling & Psychology
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For all ICAT students:
There are 2 General Education and 3 Facilitation Skills courses that ALL students working towards their ICAT certification must complete through CELA:
- PY006 Assessments in Creative Arts Therapy
- PY007 Intermodal Creative Arts Therapy: Theory & Practice
- PY008 Facilitation Skills 1: Individual Process & Creative Arts Therapy
- PY009 Facilitation Skills 2: Group Process & Creative Arts Therapy
- PY010 Facilitation Skills 3: Approach, Application, & Process in Intermodal Creative Arts Therapy
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Required Reading
ICAT certification training has a required reading component. All candidates must enroll in PY011 Required Reading in order to complete the reading work. Each required reading title has an assigned writing component that students must complete. Several of the required reading titles are required reading in other CELA online courses. Titles need to be read only once.
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.Supervised Fieldwork Requirement
Facilitation Skills
ICAT certification requires completion of a supervised fieldwork component. We offer two tracks for the supervised fieldwork in order to accommodate the different training backgrounds candidates may have:
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Track A: 200-hour supervised fieldwork
Candidates who have a graduate degree in psychology, educational psychology, counseling, social work, marriage and family therapy, or a related mental health discipline. This track has a 200 hour fieldwork requirement with a minimum of 50 individual supervision hours.
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Track B: 500-hour supervised fieldwork
Candidates who have a graduate degree in a creative arts area, for example, visual arts, music, dance, writing, theater arts. This track has a 500 hour fieldwork requirement with a minimum of 50 individual supervision hours.
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All candidates must enroll in PY010 Facilitation Skills 3: Approach, Application, & Process in Intermodal Creative Arts Therapy in order to complete the supervised fieldwork training requirements.
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Arts Area Requirement
Every ICAT candidate is required to select a primary arts area and two secondary arts areas within which they will focus their fieldwork. Intermodal Creative Arts involves moving among different arts areas when working with clients. ICAT certification requires the arts area coursework to be in classes whose primary focus is in an arts area and not in arts-in-therapy.
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CELA requires the following minimum number of contact hours for each arts area of focus:
- 50 contact hours in a primary arts area (2 classes)
- 25 contact hours in a secondary arts area (1 class)
- 25 contact hours in an additional secondary arts area (1 class)
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CELA currently offers online courses in the following Arts Areas:
- Visual arts
- Music
- Language Arts / Creative writing
- Culinary Arts
- Individualized Focus
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CELA’s ICAF and ICAT Certification Programs meet the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA) supervision and training from an Expressive Arts Institute requirement for the Registered Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator (REACE) credential and the Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT) credential.
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