General Education Requirements
ICAF certification requires completion of 10 General Education courses:
- PY001 Assessments in Creative Arts Therapy
- PY002 Culture & Diversity
- PY003 Documentation & Records Management
- PY004 Ethics & Standards
- PY006 Group Process & Creative Arts Therapy
- PY007 Human Growth & Development Across the Lifespan
- PY008 Intermodal Creative Arts Therapy: Theory & Practice
- PY009 Introduction to Psychology
- PY010-F Psychopathology (ICAF)
- PY012 Theories of Counseling & Psychology
General Education courses that must be completed through CELA:
- PY001 Assessments in Creative Arts Therapy
- PY006 Group Process & Creative Arts Therapy
- PY008 Intermodal Creative Arts Therapy: Theory & Practice
Each CELA online course is 30 contact hours
Arts Area Coursework Requirements
Every ICAF candidate is required to select a primary arts area and two secondary arts areas within which they will focus their internship work. Intermodal Creative Arts involves moving among different arts areas when working with clients. ICAF certification requires the arts area coursework to be in classes whose primary focus is in an arts area and not in arts-in-therapy.
CELA requires the following minimum number of contact hours for each arts area of focus:
- 50 contact hours in a primary arts area
- 20 contact hours in a secondary arts area
- 20 contact hours in an additional secondary arts area
Arts Areas include: visual arts, dance and movement, culinary arts, music, language arts, dramatic arts, horticulture, and permaculture.
CELA currently offers online courses in the following Arts Areas:
- Visual arts
- Music
- Language arts
- Creative writing
- Independent study
Each CELA Arts Area course is 30 contact hours
Required Reading
ICAF 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.
- Download Required Reading List
Supervised Internship Requirement
Facilitation Skills
ICAF certification requires completion of a minimum 500-hour supervised internship with a minimum 50 hours of individual supervision. The internship must be conducted at a CELA-approved internship site. Candidates must enroll in PY005 Facilitation Skills in order to complete the supervised internship training requirements.
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