Ellen Horovitz – Art Therapy: Hands-on Approaches to Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment

Outline

• Knowing Art Therapy
  • Know the ethical implications of using art therapy in your practice
  • Learn the psychotherapy behind the art and its language
• Development and Clinical Applications
  • Identify normal and abnormal developmental levels of artwork, including organicity and TBI
  • Streamline your reports using the apps such as Genogram Analytics, BetterMind, and Limbix
• Assessment: Hands on Activities
  • Art Therapy Dream Assessment (ATDA)
    • Video case study: Mourning and loss, dually diagnosed patient
    • Experience the ADTA firsthand
    • Practice how to dialogue with the patient
  • Belief Art Therapy Assessment (BATA)
    • Video case study: Mourning and loss, dually diagnosed patient
    • Experience the BATA firsthand
    • Practice how to dialogue with the patient
  • Cognitive Art Therapy Assessment (CATA)
    • Video case study: Schizophrenic spiraling into OCD moment
    • Learn how to redirect the patient
    • Experience the CATA and its importance in first art therapy session
  • Conducting Additional Assessments
    • Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD)
    • The Road Test
    • Person Picking an Apple From a Tree (PPAT)
    • The Bridge Drawing
  • Hands-on Techniques for Specific Populations
    • OCD and schizophrenic – fiber work
    • PTSD, co-morbidity – mask making
    • Dysmorphia, eating disorders, and more – body tracings
    • Mood Disorders – Breath of Joy exercises
    • Sexual/physical abuse survivors – co-operative blankets exercises, safe place/containers
    • Couple/ Family Collaborative Drawing Techniques
    • Aggressive, self-harming populations – 3-D exercises, paper exercise
    • All populations – word exercise – the bag exercise, self-esteem techniques
    • Bring an image of your younger self to the workshop or use a current image from your smartphone – Phototherapy techniques