Art Therapist

About the role

Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands is north Houston’s first true, free-standing pediatric hospital designed, equipped and staffed exclusively to provide care in more than 25 areas of specialty care for children and adolescents.

Responsibilities

• Counsels and educates patients and families about the benefits of art therapy
• Conducts formal and informal developmental assessments of psychosocial needs of patients and families for inpatients as evidenced by documentation in the medical record
• Provides interventions that increase emotional support to patients and families during identified stress points in order to facilitate adaptive coping
• Plans and implements developmentally appropriate interventions according to the therapeutic plan developed to meet specific patient care goals
• Communicates the benefits of arts therapy to the health care team, as evidenced by participation in interdisciplinary rounds, unit based projects, and/or daily report
• Reviews Arts Therapy program yearly with leader to determine process or program improvements
• Participates in the development and education of creative arts therapy programming by sitting on departmental committee and/or task force

Requirements

• Master’s degree required
• ATR-BC certification from the Art Therapy Credentials Board required
• 2 years of Art Therapy experience
• Previous employment in health care, a health care specialization in schooling or a field work practicum in health care preferred