PP5001 Creative Helping Practices: Critical Evaluation Brief on Green and Blue Spaces

PP5001 asks students to critically evaluate one creative helping practice covered in the module. In this brief the practice is therapy and helping work in green spaces such as parks, gardens and woodland, and blue spaces such as coasts, rivers and lakes, judged through ethics, theory, research evidence and the practical and policy challenges facing service users and professionals.

Assessment Instructions

Write a 3,000-word critical evaluation on a chosen topic covered in the module relating to creative helping therapies.

Title: Creative Helping Practices in Green and Blue Spaces

Evaluate your chosen topic in relation to the four knowledge domains below. The assessment will include an exploration of:

1. ethical challenges for end users and professionals;
2. relevant theories and their relationship to the topic of creative helping therapies (for example, how do power differences affect communication between end users and professionals?);
3. what the research evidence concludes about creative therapies and practices; and
4. the challenges of using creative therapies in practice for end users and professionals (what are the policy implications?).

Mapping to Programme Goals and Objectives

Knowledge and Understanding

1. You will demonstrate understanding of creative helping practices in diverse contexts.
2. You will demonstrate knowledge of how professionals deliver creative helping therapies in different service settings, and the experiences of end users.

Intellectual / Professional Skills and Abilities

3. You will develop critical analysis skills to assess and evaluate the impact of practical helping skills on end users and professionals.
4. You will acquire a range of analytical skills on the challenges of innovative creative therapies and their differences from traditional and mainstream interventions in health and social care.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural Awareness, Ethics, Curiosity)

5. You will acquire an appreciation of the ethical challenges to users who undertake creative helping therapies and to professionals.