Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an art therapist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an art therapist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

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.

Also known as dramatherapist.

Professionals 66 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: healthcare assistant, 62%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
healthcare assistant 62% covered recreational therapist 57% covered physiotherapy assistant 56% covered dental hygienist 56% covered animal assisted therapist 56% covered art therapist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from art therapist, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an art therapist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An art therapist needs 50 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • challenge patient behaviour by means of art assisting and caring
  • develop educational materials on art therapy communication, collaboration and creativity
  • enable patients to explore artworks communication, collaboration and creativity
  • techniques of practice in art therapy health and welfare
  • apply art therapy interventions assisting and caring
  • assess art therapy sessions information skills
  • prepare treatment plan for art therapy assisting and caring
  • schedule artistic activities management skills
  • take referred patients assisting and caring
  • theory of art therapy health and welfare
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an art therapist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Art therapist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an art therapist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.