Seminars meet 10 weeks for 2 hours. 20 CEU hours. Interns may count seminar hours as BBSE hours of training. Participants learn how creativity and expressive processes develop from early childhood, learn to recognize universally regarded expressive developmental stages and develop a sensitivity to children's visual communications. Seminar emphasizes the child's spontaneous expressive communication within an empathic environment.
Participants explore how adult creative processes are connected to early childhood processes.
Seminar covers an overview of the use of Family Art Psychotherapy. Participants are engaged in learning through dialectic and experiential learning processes. Seminar provides learning and application of Art Therapy group interventions with an exploration of directed and non-directed approaches. Seminar covers a didactic and experiential exploration of the unique impact of Art Therapy on both inpatient and outpatient group processes. Scheduled for Winter 1998.