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Healing
Children Through Creativity
with Catherine Rogers Jonsson, MFA, MA, ATR
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| Healing Children through Creativity Workshop |
2010 Presentation and Training
Event Topics:
Child Art Therapy Art Therapy with Children of Alcoholics and Addicts Art Therapy with Sexually Abused Children Art Therapy with Children of Divorce, Adoption and
Abandonment Psychodynamic Art
Therapy with Adults 12-Step
Art Therapy for Addiction Recovery Team
Spirit through Creativity (Corporate Team Building) Art Therapy for Professional Artists
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Below is an example of the Child Art Therapy Training Workshop
goals and agenda.
Workshop Goals:- Introduction to the field of art therapy.
- Outline
the history of art therapy highlighting key contributors to the field.
- Explain
the underlying principles of art therapy.
- Outline the components
an art therapy course of treatment.
- Experience art materials through
art therapeutic processes.
- Experience non-directive and directive
evaluation and treatment approaches.
- Illustrate art therapy principles
and practice by reviewing six case studies of clients and their art therapeutic course of treatment.
- Demonstrate the use of metaphor and healing stories in art therapy.
- Present art therapeutic interventions to improve the client's self-esteem, increase
insight, decrease trauma and acting-out behaviors.
- Review
forensic art therapy evaluation techniques for suspected child sexual abuse.
- Review the importance of object relations, art making and expression.
- Understand issues involving the interpretation of children's art.
Workshop Agenda
Workshops
are limited to a maximum of 20 participants.
Day One: Child
Art Therapy Principles & Evaluations
Registration check-in: 7:45 - 8:00 AM
Workshop Time: 8:00-12:00 & 1:00 to 5:00
Morning & afternoon refreshments (10AM and 3PM) are provided for you.
Lunch is available through nearby restaurants or in museum cafes.
Art materials including paper, drawing and painting supplies and stoneware clay
are included in the workshop fee.
The
first day begins by covering a brief history of Art Therapy and an overview of key contributors to the field. ( S. Freud,
A. Freud, C. Jung, M. Naumberg, E. Kramer,E. Ulman, J.A. Rubin, V. Lowenfeld, H.X. Kwiakovska, H. Wadeson, S. McNiff, C. Malchiodi) - The major clinical modalities used in Art Therapy are highlighted (psychodynamic,
cognitive-behavioral, developmental model, et al).
- Developmental stages of child mark-making and art creation is visually presented through
power point. (Kellogg, Lowenfeld)
- The developmental
model of Art Therapy assessment will set the foundation for various therapeutic evaluation techniques. (V. Lowenfeld, R. Kellogg)
- Non-directive (E. Ulman) Art Therapy evaluation
explained. Participants will experience this process first-hand.
- Origins of art therapy in power point and lecture.
- Who is and is not an art therapist. The education and registration process for art therapists.
- Directive drawing, painting and sculpture evaluations will be experienced
by the participants. (Draw-a-Person-in-the-Rain Test, Kinetic Family Drawing Test, Winnicott Scribble Test)
- A psychodynamic analysis of art media is introduced. (Naumberg, Kramer,
Wadeson)
- Issues in decrypting and interpreting
children’s visually imagery: process and product. (J.A.Rubin)
Day Two: Child
Art Therapy Exercises
Workshop Time: 8:00-12:00 & 1:00 to 5:00
Workshops are limited to 20 participants.
Morning & afternoon refreshments (10AM and 3 PM) are provided for you. Lunch is available through nearby
restaurants or in museum cafes.
Art materials including paper, drawing and
painting supplies and stoneware clay are included in the workshop fee.
Day
Two is heavily experiential and designed to build upon the principles of art therapy covered in Day One. Specific
art therapeutic exercises will be experienced by the participants for the treatment of: childhood depression/suicidal ideation abused and neglected children children of divorce/custody battles children of dysfunctional families medically
stressed children children
of alcoholics/addicts ADHD children sexually abused children Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in children children with learning & developmental disabilities child victims of ritual
abuse
- Case studies of child clients and power point presentations of client artworks are reviewed.
Course of treatment reviewed.
- Forensic
interviewing techniques: how to question and speak to children about traumatic events reflected in their artworks.
- We will identify effective metaphors and healing stories and how to present
these methods in an art therapeutic manner.
- How art therapists avoid re-traumatizing the child client through the use
of transitional objects. Participants will create a transitional object in stoneware clay.
- The psychological impact of creating therapeutic art in clay, charcoal, pastels and
paint will be experienced by the participants. Feelings Maps will be created and analyzed.
- Using Art Therapy in a school setting: tips for teachers and counselors in working with
art therapists. How to structure Art Therapy sessions to comply with the school day. Creating an after-school Art Therapy
program.
- Structuring Art Therapy sessions
for individuals and groups.
- Question
and Answer period.
- Evaluation of the
Child Art Therapy Training Workshop, forms passed out/turned back in.
- Wrap-Up, Thanks and Goodbyes.
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After completion of this workshop participants will
be able to: - Define art therapy and the educational
steps toward becoming an art therapist.
- Explain the basic principles
and purposes of Art Therapy.
- Explain the history of art therapy
in the context of the psychoanalytic tradition.
- Understand how
art therapy is used with emotional, behavioral, developmental and neurological disorders in children.
- Understand how art therapy evaluates the developmental capabilities of the child.
- Identify art therapy assessment approaches (Non-directive and Directive).
- Explain the creation and use of transitional objects in art therapy.
- Identify ways to use art materials in an art therapeutic manner.
- Explain how to use metaphors and healing stories art therapeutically.
- Know how art therapists create and use art therapeutic prompts.
- Identify different ways art therapists structure art therapy sessions.
- Identify appropriate art therapeutic interventions for various diagnoses.
- Identify ways that art therapy can be used in school, hospital and clinical settings.
- Demonstrate various art therapy techniques used by art therapists for individual and
group sessions.
Who should take this workshop?
Elementary and Middle School Counselors
Special Education Teachers
Elementary School Teachers
Social Workers
Mental Health Providers
Pediatric & Psychiatric RNs
Occupational Therapists
Licensed Professional Counselors
Marriage & Family
Therapists
Head Start & Early Childhood Teachers
Graduate & Undergraduate Students
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