Empowering Your Clients' Grief Counseling by Incorporating Expressive Arts Techniques

Complete Seminar Details

Expressive arts provide clients with the therapeutic tools they need to heal themselves and maintain their health. Discover how to best utilize these art forms to restore clients and students to a healthy state.

Intense, unresolved pain requires a systemic approach. Expressive arts can provide the mental health professional with a unique set of tools to facilitate this type of healing work. Emotional healing requires clients to maintain a long-term commitment to their emotional health even after they have stopped working with a mental health professional. The expressive arts provides clients with the therapeutic tools they need to heal themselves and maintain their health.

In this one day seminar, therapists and educators will discover how to best utilize these art forms to restore their clients and students to a healthy state. Selecting the best art medium for your clients' individual needs will be addressed, as well as tips for encouraging your clients to utilize the expressive arts long-term for personal restoration. Because grief work can be applied in a variety of settings, attendees will discuss the best methods for using these techniques in individual and group settings. Finally, participants will discuss how they can apply these therapeutic techniques to guide them with their own self-care.

WHAT YOU WILL COVER

• Assess how to use expressive arts for the resolution of grief and emotional pain
• Identify how to use various expressive arts techniques, including music, writing, movement, drawing and art
• Determine how to select techniques designed specifically for your clients' personal growth
• Discover how to utilize expressive arts techniques in both individual and group work
• Develop maintenance programs for your clients' long-term emotional health
• Examine different types of expressive arts therapies including examples and activities using music, writing, movement, drawing and art
• Explain why using expressive arts during therapy is so successful
• Outline how to use expressive art to resolve grief and emotional pain
• Develop a long-term program of emotional support
• Discuss the basics of a powerful psychological theory which supports the use of expressive arts in both individual and group work
• Discover how therapists and educators can use the expressive arts for self-care

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Licensed Professional Counselors
• Licensed Clinical Social Workers
• Art Therapists
• Play Therapists
• School Psychologists/Counselors
• Substance Abuse Counselors
• Educators
• Psychiatric Nurses
• Clergy

Sponsor Background:

Leading the Way in Professional Development.

Cross Country Education is a national leader in high-quality educational products and services for the entire health care industry. Our seminars and training programs are designed to help health care providers achieve improved performance and results in all areas of clinical, financial and operational management. Our faculty of more than 150 instructors are the "best of the best" in their field of expertise and know how to provide programs that really make a difference to participants.

Since 1995, we have trained over 1,000,000 providers, managers, nurses, behavioral health professionals and other key personnel throughout the entire healthcare industry. We produce over 5,000 seminars and conferences annually for the health care industry. Plus, we coordinate in-house training for health care facilities. Let us provide your training and professional education needs!

Our Mission Statement

“CCE exists to identify and provide opportunities for relevant continuing education in a timely and geographically friendly manner that will meet and exceed the needs and expectations of targeted professionals.”

Quote From Past Participants:

"Best conference I have ever experienced!!!" - Educator Henderson, NV

"Really wonderful -- kept me interested, with many creative ideas to use discussed." - Nurse, Omaha, Nebraska