From music therapist to art therapist
36 of the 50 essential skills of a art therapist are already essential for a music therapist — about 72% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from music therapist in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 36
- skills carry over
- 14
- would be new
- 72%
- of the target job covered
- 50
- essential skills of a art therapist
What a art therapist does
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.
What carries over
36 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- assess the patient's therapeutic needs
- behavioural therapy
- 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
- educate on the prevention of illness
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- 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
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- psychological theories
- psychopathology
- respond to changing situations in health care
- sociology
- 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
What would be new
14 skillsEssential for a art therapist and not for a music therapist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply art therapy interventions
- assess art therapy sessions
- challenge patient behaviour by means of art
- develop educational materials on art therapy
- enable patients to explore artworks
- fine arts
- prepare treatment plan for art therapy
- refer healthcare users
- schedule artistic activities
- take referred patients
- techniques of practice in art therapy
- theory of art therapy
- use art in a therapeutic setting
Other moves from music therapist
2 roles- speech and language therapist33 skills in common
- clinical psychologist31 skills in common
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a art therapist?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.