Self-Injurious Behaviors with Art Therapy Workshop
 
 
7 hours of CEC’s One day, 9 am - 5 pm Program Description: This program is designed to educate art therapists and other mental health clinicians how to effectively work with clients who self-injure using art based techniques. These behaviors, as well as the etiology and treatment options, are rarely discussed in graduate training programs even though manifestations of these behaviors are visible several populations including, but not limited to: the mentally retarded, thought disordered, and character disordered, as well as the “main stream” adolescent and young adult populations. Therapists may come in contact with individuals who self-injury in a variety of settings such as institutions, hospitals, residential and out-patient facilities, and their own private practice. This workshop will educate art therapists and other treating clinicians about the symptoms, signs and interventions that may be utilized to identify and treat individuals who self harm. Art therapy may be used as an effective treatment tool for individuals who meet the classification of “moderate” self-injure. Discussions of the theories of etiology concerning self-harm will illuminate why the art therapy process is a natural modality of treatment for these clients often viewed as alarming and sometimes difficult to treat by many clinicians. This workshop will offer an examination as to how these behaviors are manifested in the art work and specific tasks and examples of art-based interventions will be provided. Program & Participant Learning Objectives: • Participants will be able to identify three (3) classifications of self-injurious behaviors based on severity. • Attendees will be able to identify the signs and symptoms of co-morbidity the often seen with clients who self-injure, such as sexual abuse, substance abuse, dissociation, and other multi-impulsive disorders. • Attendees will be able to identify at least (4) therapeutic tools to utilize with clients who self-injure. • Participants will learn how art & the art psychotherapy process may be used to assist patients with urges to self-harm via modulating and containing painful affect. A dozen specific tasks and examples will be presented. Workshop Outline: 9:00 Introduction, background & history Definitions & Overview Prevalence & other demographics Culture & SIB Classifications Overview: Major Stereotypical Superficial/ Moderate Major Self-injury: Types: Associated psychopathology Major depression, mania, schizophrenia, transsexualism, & organic disorders Major themes Stereotypic Self-injury Definition Types Associated psychopathology Superficial/ Moderate Self-injury Definition Themes Biological explanations Emotional states around self-injury before, during and after Co-morbidity Sexual abuse & dissociation Personality disorders Multi-impulsive disorders D&A AN, BN and other ED’s Promiscuity, shop lifting... 12:15 - 1:15 Lunch (on your own) Treatment of Superficial/Moderate self-injury Psychopharmacology Brief in-patient treatment Outpatient Safe Toolbox Contracts Homework Other treatment tools Art therapy Cognitive/ behavioral Insight oriented Specific tasks and examples What NOT to do for Self -Injury 3:00 Art Experiential(s) 4:30 Questions & Discussion 4:45 Conclusion & evaluations 5:00 End time Treating Clients with Self-Injurious Behaviors with Art Therapy (7 hours of CEC’s) Sat., September 29, 2007; 9 am-5 pm Early registration: $ 150 if postmarked 1 month prior to workshop; regular registration $175. Distance-Learning Course $175 Professional%20Training.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1
“The Screaming Self” -a print making image made by a woman in her early 20’s who self-injured and had an eating disorder.
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