ABT (Arts-Based Therapy)
A certificate course on Arts Based Therapy [BT-ABT] is offered by the Bapu Trust, with a key focus on mental health and disabilities, within the overall frame of disability inclusive development.
“ABT is the evidence – based use of art forms, integrated in a way to offer choices for people with mental health problems and psychosocial disabilities, to accomplish their own individualized mental health goals within a safe, recovery oriented, therapeutic relationship”.
Bapu Trust is hosting the course, now in its fourth year, in the format prescribed by WCCLF. Faculty of the BT-ABT courseare trained as ABT educators with a continued permission to teach ABT for this year, generously given by WCCLF.
ABT as a creative modality fulfils to the maximum, the purpose and vision for which Bapu Trust was created: “healing environments will be creative, non-hazardous, non-violent and playful; and will respect the dignity and autonomy of the person.”
