Art Therapy Practicum at Benioff Children’s Hospital
An art therapy practicum at Benioff Children’s Hospital is focused on bedside and group art therapy. Trainee’s create and facilitate treatment plans for individual bedside patients, including the creation of art therapy interventions, and collaboration on multi-disciplinary hospital teams. Trainee’s also facilitate art therapy groups via in-house broadcast television to patient rooms, and produce blog posts for featured artists.
Art Therapy services are provided to all inpatient units, including: Pediatric Intensive Care, Cardiology, General Medical/Surgical and Transitional Care, Hematology/ Oncology, Bone Marrow Transplant. Art therapists are integral members of the interdisciplinary treatment team for many patients.
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco is a state-of-the-art, 183-bed medical facility. And UCSF Medical Center is a top-10 ranked hospital in the United States, with a high commitment to excellence and compassionate care.
Watch BCH Art Therapy Documentary
Art Therapist Shalene Hatton interviews patient artists about their artwork and personal experiences.
Bedside Art Therapy
Bedside art therapy is a cornerstone of the art therapy program at Benioff Children’s Hospital
Group Art Therapy
Group art therapy offers socializaion for isolated patients and the chance for peer support in a difficult time
Remote Live Art Group
Art kits are dropped off to patient hospital rooms before a live broadcast art show
Art therapists co-host, create artwork, demonstrate technique, tell stories, and take calls from patients during the hour
Treatment Planning
Planning art therapy projects that allow for learning, challenge, and expression of thoughts and experiences
Hospital Enviornment
This is a fast paced, high responsibility internship. Doctors, nurses, child life specialists send regular consults for art therapy and expect close collaboration in meetings, through clinical notes, and in treatment planning. Good communication skills, organization skills, and flexibility are essential to working in the hospital environment. The work with patients is very rewarding. Supervisor allows for great creativity and innovation if standard of care is established.
TO APPLY email shalene.hatton@ucsf.edu with:
Resume
Cover Letter
Any applicable artwork, art therapy websites, blogs, digital media
A video clip explaining your interest in art therapy, as well as this internship site.
Optional: A clip of you leading an art project/activity
Patient Artwork
Dominican University Database Info Form
Site Name: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Address: 1975 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94158
Website:
https://www.bchcreativearts.org/bcharttherapyinternship-4-1 BCH Art Therapy Internship Site (Here)
https://www.bchcreativearts.org/ Benioff Children’s Hospital creative arts webpage
https://www.bchcreativearts.org/blog Benioff Children’s Hospital creative arts Blog
Site contact’s email and phone number: Shalene.hatton@ucsf.edu
2.Name and contact information for current supervisors:
Shalene Hatton: Shalene.hatton@ucsf.edu
Is there an Art Therapist available on site to supervise? Yes: Licenced LMFT and ATR. Weekly individual supervision, and Triadic supervision with two Dominican Art Therapy trainee’s.
3.Site Requirements for trainees:
i. Fall and/or Spring start date? Fall Semester 2023: On-site training starts three weeks before semester start (two weeks training, one week off before semester). This allows you to start your direct clinical hours in the first weeks of practicum. Early start on direct clinical hours makes collection of clinical hours easier throughout the year.
ii. Mandatory training days & times? Four weekdays/week, six hour shifts. Weekday of your choice off. More detail in #6
iii. Pre-Semester training needed before hours accrue and cases are assigned? If so, when and how much? Yes: UCSF on-boarding and Pre-semester training. UCSF on-boarding includes: Vaccinations, background check, fingerprints, drug-testing. Virtual learning for hospital protocols. On-boarding needs to be completed before on-site pre-semester training. (On-boarding takes about 4 weeks, and begins just after spring semester ends)
5.Type(s) of population(s) served? Pediatric hospital patients: Ages 4-25. All units. Strong collaboration with several units and teams including ICU, Cardiac, Oncology, Amplified pain, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Eating disorders.
6.Amount of weekly client contact hours? 4 days weekly, 6 hr. shifts. +/-. Generally, 10:00-4:30 weekdays. 4 days is important due to patients not always feeling well enough for sessions. It’s common to reschedule 2-3 sessions each week.
7.Type of weekly client contact hours (individual, family, group, couples, etc.) Primarily 1x1 individual art therapy at bedside, weekly art therapy groups (in person and remotely through in-house TV studio broadcasting). Case management with parents. Occasional family therapy, and sibling-diad work.
8.Amount of weekly supervision available (individual or group)? One hour individual art therapy supervision with LMFT/ATR, one hour Triatic supervision with supervisor and co-art therapy trainee. Group supervision done off-site through NDNU. Supervisor will be present and available on all weekdays throughout the internship. Weekly meetings, trainings, and collaboration with supervisor is provided.
9.Types of trainings? Art therapy specific trainings, opportunity to work with Music Therapy interns and larger creative arts team (Music Therapy, Art Therapy, TV broadcasting). Also Child Life pediatric hospital trainings. the Art Therapy department is part of the larger Child Life department.
10. Is there a stipend available? How much? What is the time commitment? No Stipend. Free accounts with Linked-in Learning, Adobe Creative Cloud suite, Canva, and Garage-Band.