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Best Practices For Creative Arts in Psychotherapy

Enhance your clinical practice through the responsible integration of art therapy techniques. Gain a deeper understanding of the practical applications and therapeutic benefits of incorporating creative arts in psychotherapy. Certificate provided upon completion.

  • Advanced
  • 18 and older
  • $850
  • Zoom
  • 18 hours over 12 sessions

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  • $850
  • Zoom
  • 18 hours over 12 sessions
  • plus a $50-100 materials fee
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What you'll learn in this health class:

A semester long LIVE ONLINE course on how to effectively and responsibly integrate art into clinical practice. 

Certificate provided on completion of course.

This 24.0 hour (24 CEs) course will provide clinicians and practicing psychotherapists with a deeper understanding of the practical and treatment oriented use of the creative arts in therapy, with an emphasis on the visual arts in psychotherapy.

Some presentations will include content on the use of drama therapy, music therapy and dance/movement therapy.

This course will examine how to effectively and thoughtfully incorporate art into therapy with attention to designing interventions that are relevant to the needs of your clients and session goals.

Participants will be introduced to responsible techniques for how to understand the artwork by co-constructing meaning and discussing the here-and-now process with clients.

We will pay close attention to the relational dynamics of the therapist offering "assignments" during session and the transferential/countertransferential activation for client and therapist.

Topics covered in this intensive, hands-on course include how to facilitate different facets of creative arts intervention such as process oriented, depth-oriented, problem-solving, and esteem-building.

Learn how to plan projects that achieve your therapeutic objectives in the clinical moment. Discussion will include an overview of art therapy practice including New York State licensing, national certification and scope of practice guidelines.

Course will review the advantages of art and nonverbal interventions including an understanding of basic media along the expressive continuum of control vs. regression.

A description of the teaching methods to be used:

  • We will MAKE ART every week!
  • Lecture and discussion to introduce creative arts therapy theory.
  • Role-play breakout rooms to practice  ‘therapist-client’ engagement and demonstrate the application of theory.
  • Group discussion of role-play experiences and impressions of activities to enhance learning and to gain perspective on the varied subjective experiences of group participants and to identify resistances that clients may experience when asked to complete tasks offered to them by their therapist.
  • Weekly course readings
  • Assessment of understanding of course content to meet requirements for NYS Continuing Education Credit

Prerequisite: MA or PhD in social work, mental health counseling, psychology, marriage and family therapy, creative arts therapy, or related field with approval of instructor. Second year students currently enrolled in a Masters program in these fields can also participate.

Curriculum topics week by week:

  1. Introduction to the creative arts therapies. Understanding different approaches to using the arts in therapy Review of national training standards, New York State licensing and scope of practice Art as therapy vs. art psychotherapy A modality or a profession, the controversy.
  2. Client engagement: How to use the arts early and often. Connecting psychotherapy theory with creative arts therapy. Introducing art materials. Setting limits and boundaries (i.e. touch, mess, destruction). Art as play. Art as task mastery. Issues related to the transactional nature of "assigning" projects in the clinical setting.
  3. Structural analysis and best practices for "interpreting" art created in session. Principles of pictorial analysis. Projective drawings and use of art assessments.
  4. Talking to the art: strategies and clinical considerations when discussing client imagery. Handling of artwork. Co-constructing meaning with clients. Art product as “other” (an Object-Relations approach). The attuned therapist during art making. Can I draw with my client? Clinical considerations when the therapist joins in artmaking
  5. Working with children. Developmental aspects of children’s artwork: Lowenfeld’s six stages. Differentiating drawing talent from developmental milestones. Incorporating art into different treatment approaches with children.
  6. Working with adolescents. Developmental considerations. Privacy and boundaries. Using art to engage and make contact. Choosing materials and designing projects Making meaning: dialoguing with the art.
  7. Adult treatment. Designing intervention to match treatment goals. Adult resistance to creative arts interventions. Here-and-now approaches to enhancing interpersonal awareness.
  8. Trauma and non-verbal treatment. Review of current evidence-based trauma treatment approaches in psychotherapy. Understanding the non-verbal aspects of a traumatic event. Case examples of sexual abuse (child and adult survivors) and family violence treatment using the arts.
  9. Trauma and arts intervention continued.
  10. Group therapy: Clinical considerations when using art and actvities with groups.
  11. Advanced Clinical Issues. Managing countertransference responses to disturbing artwork. Working with challenging populations. Topics selected by students.
  12. Issues of Termination. Creating transitional objects. Take it or leave it? Understanding the meaning of artwork left behind?

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

  • Cancellations prior to 11 business days before a scheduled workshop or training starts receive a refund minus a $15 processing fee.
  • Participants who cancel their enrollment less than 11 business days before the first continuing education session will not be refunded but can receive credit towards a future workshop or training.
If the school cancels an entire workshop or training your paid fee will be refunded less a 5% non-refundable registration fee or credited to another workshop at your request. If you transfer to another workshop and then cancel, do not attend or leave early there is no further transfer.

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