Expressive Arts Therapy E-News
September 2016 | Enjoy These Resources and Articles!
In this issue...
- "Why Art Therapy Works"
- "Expressive Arts and the Window of Tolerance"
- "It Didn't Start with You: Inherited Family Trauma"
- Current Workshops and Courses
- Continuing Education Updates
- Peter Levine Film Clip
...and links to latest downloadable resources, events and other trauma-informed expressive arts therapy information.
See You in Australia in November! Byron Clinic Workshops
"Expressive Arts Therapy & Trauma" 2-Day Workshops in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane: November 2016
These two-day hands-on workshops will emphasize the “neurobiology” of expressive arts therapy and how these approaches help “tell without talking”. Expressive arts therapy includes the purposeful application of visual arts, music/sound, movement, dramatic enactment, creative writing and storytelling to facilitate individual recovery through all the senses and all parts of the brain— it is truly a whole-brain approach.
These workshops emphasize the “neurobiology” of the expressive arts and play and how these approaches help clients “tell without talking,” supporting executive functioning through non-verbal experiences, and enhance self-regulation and internal resources. Participants will learn how to apply and adapt expressive arts therapy from a “brain-wise” perspective and develop their own creative strategies based on a neurodevelopmental model of treatment.
Adolescents and children can often have a resistance to authority, a lack of trust in the adult world and difficulty establishing a therapeutic relationship — engaging in traditional forms of verbal therapy may not be an option. Gain knowledge and skills and improve your proficiency when working with such cases. The workshop material covers working with children, parent-child dyads, adolescents, adults and families. Everything covered in the hands-on components and taught as general principles is applicable to working with children, adolescents and adults. These workshops have the potential to transform lives – research is demonstrating that art improves not only our quality of life but is also effective in reducing pain, fatigue and stress as well as increasing cognitive abilities, emotional well-being and security. It is also a worthy clinical skill when dealing with eating disorders, self-harm, drug and alcohol abuse where the client may not find the words to describe preceding events.
To Register, click this link or visit https://byronclinic.com.
Why Art Therapy Works | Psychology Today
As an approach to mental health, art therapy has heavily relied on expert opinion rather than actual evidence via various forms of research. Despite the collective enthusiasm from the profession, there has been very little substantiation that art therapy makes a positive difference in emotional recovery in individuals challenged by personality disorders.
Researchers Haeyan, van Hooren and Hutchemaekers (2015) set out to identify the possible effects of art therapy on the recovery process in groups of adults with personality disorders, based on existing anecdotal observations made by practitioners in the field and patient testimonies. Using Grounded Theory Approach (GTA), they constructed a qualitative study using in-depth interviews to collect data that reflected individuals’ responses to art therapy experiences and used open and axial coding to generate and distill information. For the non-researcher and clinician, this may sound daunting; however, the researchers were able to eventually identify a set of five concepts that encompassed all data collected...Read more here
Three-Day "Visual Journaling in Expressive Arts Therapy and Counseling" Denver CO, June 22, 23, & 24, 2016, Lowry Conference Center Denver-- Great time had by all!
Institute Faculty: Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, REAT and Elizabeth Warson, PhD, LPC, ATR-BC...we really enjoyed presenting this three-day seminar and learning from the participants. We are in the planning stage for 2017 for the Denver area and other locations around the US.
Have a Slice of Hope Pie-- Art Exchange
Exploring and Inventing New Journaling Approaches
Everyone Needs a Little Hope...
A Journal Gallery Walkabout...
Sharing Experiences and Approaches to Clinical WorK
Inspiring Journal Page...
Continuing Education Updates...
And for our current continuing education offerings, please visit our continuing education page for information.
Complete Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy Level One
To date, over 10,000 participants have attended one or more trauma-informed expressive arts therapy workshops and/or taken online courses! Thank you for your support! For more information about these courses, please visit this link. Here are a few of the most popular offerings:
- Trauma-Informed Art Therapy® and Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy©
- Resilience, Posttraumatic Growth and Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy Practice
- Art Therapy, Expressive Arts Therapy and Positive Psychology
- Expressive Arts Therapy Approaches to Resilience and Stress Reduction
To read more about completing Registration as an Expressive Arts Therapist, please see this link about the REAT.
How Trauma "Sticks" to the Brain...a short film with Peter Levine
Coming Attractions...Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy Courses Around the US in 2017
The following US and Canada workshops/seminars are open to all professionals and graduate students in the fields of mental health, health care and education...
- January 27th, 2017: Alabama Association for Play Therapy
- April 20-21st, 2017: Kansas Association for Play Therapy
- May 2017 [dates to be announced]: Saskatoon Canada Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy Level Two
- And a possible sighting of the Northern Lights and Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy Level One and Two in Anchorage Alaska in September 2017! Watch website for details.
Inherited Family Trauma | It Didn't Start with You
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The Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute is dedicated to providing professional education that promotes greater understanding of creative, trauma-informed practices. The Institute offers continuing education courses and workshops and convenient distance learning courses for mental health professionals and master's and doctoral students. Courses emphasize approaches that are based on best practices, integrative methods and current research in expressive arts, creative arts, and trauma-informed care and complement mind-body, somatic, sensory integration and neurobiology-informed methods of trauma intervention.
What Does a Duck Have to Do With It?
For more information on courses that will add to your practice with individuals of all ages who have traumatic stress, please visit this page for descriptions of the core courses given online and through live intensive presentations and workshops.
...and Free Articles for Download Here!
Why Music is being Prescribed for Heart Ailments, Brain Dysfunction, Learning Disabilities, Depression, PTSD, Alzheimers, Childhood Development and More
Expressive Arts Therapy and the Window of Tolerance
A Reprise...Defining Art Therapy in the 21st Century
Historically, the field has promoted two roads as its primary conceptual pathways in the US. These are: 1) art as therapy; and 2) art psychotherapy. These two concepts are ubiquitous in art therapy literature and have become well-worn mantras describing the profession and guiding the way art therapists define themselves for the past 40 years in the US and despite the influence of the field of counseling. They are also referred to as “the continuum of practice” in that art therapists may use both, depending on the situation and the client. According to some, these two concepts emerged in conjunction with a long-standing debate among early leaders that not only involved scholarly discourse, but also political control of the field’s future trajectory. Read more at this link...https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/arts-and-health/201304/defining-art-therapy-in-the-21st-century