Improving mental health through restorative justice
Free

This CPD certified e-course aims to train mental health professionals, institutional coordinators, carers and other health care professionals on restorative justice and creative art therapeutic approaches with the ultimate objective of improving their practice. A key purpose of this course is to introduce those working within the mental health sector to the values of restorative justice and give them a methodological approach that combines them with a therapeutic form of art as a means of restoring mental health and injustice. The ultimate objective of the programme is to enable practitioners to lead patients through a healing and self –representation process that empowers them to improve their mental health and overall wellbeing.
The e-course can be paused as many times as you need, and completed in your own time. It takes approximately 5 non-stop hours to fully complete all modules and take the test. Additional reading material are also provided for optional further learning and research.
Certification
Successful completion will lead to CPD (Continuous Professional Development) Certification.
Target Groups
- mental health professionals and volunteers
- mental health structures’ coordinators,
- mental health career advisors
- carers of people with mental health challenges
- other health care practitioners,
- restorative justice practitioners.
Learning objectives
Upon completion of the training programme, participants will be able to understand:
- the concept of restorative justice and its value and as well as connection with restorative art
- the important role that restorative justice and restorative art can play for people who suffer from mental health issues
- the use of art therapy tools and restorative justice values to support wellness and well-being in mental health structures
- the approach of co-creative art in mental health units
- the implementation of art activities for the benefit of mental health service users.
It is also expected that successful completion will lead to improved skills and knowledge in:
- using restorative justice for the empowerment of patients within mental health structures
- applying art therapy for mental health
- implementing restorative justice values and techniques for the healing of mental health patients and restoring relationships.
Course Features
- Lectures 33
- Quizzes 1
- Duration 50 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 15
- Certificate No
- Assessments Yes
Introduction
Pre- Evaluation Questionnaire
Module 1: Creativity and Recovery: The mental health benefits of Art Therapy (CSI)
Module 2: The concept of Restorative Justice Art: The connection between restorative justice and restorative art
Module 3: Using art tools and restorative justice values to promote communication
Module 4: Exploring co-creative art in mental health units
- Module 4: Exploring co-creative art in mental health units
- Introduction to art therapy
- Support knowledge of art therapy
- Best Practices of Co-creation in individual settings
- Best Practices of Co-creation in family and group settings
- An example, worksheet for designing community art making by mental health team
- Reading list
- Now that you have completed the module…
Module 5: Art activities to support mental health treatment and the promotion of mental health
Test
References
Post- Evaluation Questionnaire
RJ4ALL DIVERSITY FORM