Full Course Description
Art Therapy: 77 Creative Interventions for Challenging Children who Shut Down, Meltdown, or Act Out
Program Information
Outline
- Which clients benefit from art therapy?
- Ethical implications and limitations of using art therapy in your practice
- Creating products vs creative process
- Go with the flow
Clinical Application of Art Therapy
- What materials to use and when
- Normative development in art making and developmental stages
- Indicators in the artwork that suggest a child needs more support
- Seeing it differently (client perspective)
- Art talk, they made it now what?
CREATIVE TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES TO…
- Build Relationships & Connection
- For ASD, Trauma & ODD
- Quality world
- Magical thinking
- About me collage
- Play building
- Collaborative drawings
- Group activities
- Family art making
- Build Safety
- For Trauma, Anxiety & Mood Disorders
- Containers, containers, containers....boxes, circles, worry and calm down jars
- Create a safe place
- Color it in
- Special person
- A gift
- Erasers
- Hurt heart
- Animal family & other family art activities
- Trauma feelings
- Coming and going
- 3 wishes
- Build Self-Esteem
- For ADHD, Anxiety & Mood disorders
- Inside out
- Mask making
- Strong person
- Power animals
- Tree drawings
- Yeahs & yucks
- Self portraits
- Beading, knitting, weaving, sewing, rainbow loom
- Increase Responsibility
- For ADHD, Trauma, ASD, ODD, Anxiety & Mood disorders
- Miracle question
- Create the problem
- The science experiment
- A really bad day
- An ideal day
- Feeling faces
- Bridges
- Cartooning problems & solutions
- Increase Control
- For ADHD, Anxiety & Mood disorders
- Change the channel
- Chill out boxes
- Brain dump
- Blow it out
- Spray it away
- On the other hand
- Feelings volcano
- Sensory play: finger painting, paper folding, dripping, goop & more
- Mindful mandalas
- Scribble scrabble
- Imaginary problem solver
- Road drawing
Objectives
- Explore art therapy directives to immediately implement into therapy practice to help children regulate their emotions and behaviors.
- Consider the ethical implications and clinical limitations of using art therapy in clinical practice.
- Determine the stages of a child’s normative development, and identify the indicators suggesting a need for additional clinical support.
- Summarize the benefits of utilizing an art therapy approach in assessment, diagnosis and clinical treatment of mental health disorders.
- Develop a plan for introducing art into clinical practice for treatment resistant and challenging children and families.
- Determine the neurobiological implications of using art therapy among clients with various diagnoses.
Copyright :
05/17/2018