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Do you work with challenging children and families who seem absolutely resistant to every strategy you try? You want to guide them to a breakthrough but they shut down, meltdown, or act out... there is a disconnect between your client and your therapeutic approach.

When words are not enough, art can be the bridge to mental, physical and emotional well–being.

With art therapy, you can blend cognitive behavioural skills, art-making, and creative problem solving to help clients create individualized social, emotional, and behavioural interventions that stick in their brain.

Now, this revolutionary art therapy course gives you step-by-step instructions to implement fresh new strategies and approaches into your practice to help children regulate their emotions and behaviours formed by their struggles with trauma, ADHD, ASD, ODD, Anxiety, or Mood Disorders. You will understand when & what art supplies to use, how to recognize when your client needs more support, how to reel back when you have pushed them too far, and language you can use to talk about what your client's art creations are reflecting.

Re-energize your work with this dynamic, intervention-packed training and gain 77 approaches you can use immediately in your practice for continued growth!

No art experience is necessary, just an open mind to creativity.

Bonus! Register today and get a FREE PDF Workbook filled with 250 additional Art Therapy Techniques!
Art Therapy for Kids:
Creative Interventions for Trauma, ADHD, Mood Disorders & More
Valued Over $252.95 AUD
Today Only 129.95 (GST Inclusive) — An Unbelievable Value!
Plus, earn up to 6.25 CPD hours included in the course tuition!
 
Here's what you'll learn in this transformational online course
77 Creative Interventions for Challenging Children Who Shut Down, Meltdown, or Act Out
In five in-depth video modules, you'll explore the essentials of art therapy, practical techniques to implement it into your practice and gain 77 fresh art strategies and approaches that you can use immediately to engage even your most difficult and challenging clients.

Module 1: The Who, What & Why's of Art Therapy

  • What is art therapy
  • Who are art therapists and what do they do
  • Benefits of art therapy

Module 2: Implications & Background Knowledge

  • Ethical implications and limitations to practising art therapy
  • Comparing the creative process and the products created
  • Safety precautions to take when implementing into your practice
  • 5 finger contract you can use with your clients

Module 3: Clinical Application of Art Therapy

  • When to use which art materials
  • Mini assessment strategies
  • Cognitive behaviour strategies
  • Normative development stages of drawing
  • Indicators that your client needs more support
  • Understanding why children shut down, meltdown & act out

Module 4: Creating a Plan for Implementation

  • Strategies to build relationships and connections
    • For ASD, Trauma, & ODD
  • Techniques to build a sense of safety
    • For Trauma, Anxiety, & Mood Disorders
  • Critical thinking skills: 6 steps of the decision-making process
  • Techniques and strategies to build self-esteem
    • For ADHD, Anxiety, & Mood Disorders
Module 5: Therapeutic Strategies & Real Art Examples
  • Real examples of client's art pieces
  • Techniques and strategies to increase responsibility
    • For ADHD, Trauma, ASD, ODD, Anxiety, & Mood Disorders
  • Strategies to increase control
    • For ADHD, Anxiety, & Mood Disorders
  • What to do when you push a client too far
Walk away with a step-by-step protocol that you can begin using immediately to help children regulate their emotions and behaviours and thrive in life. Get started today!
 
Art Therapy for Kids:
Creative Interventions for Trauma, ADHD, Mood Disorders & More
Valued Over $252.95 AUD
Today Only 129.95 (GST Inclusive) — An Unbelievable Value!
Plus, earn up to 6.25 CPD hours — included in the course tuition!
 
 
Enrol today and you'll also get this FREE eBook!
 
Session 1
250 Brief, Creative & Practical Art Therapy Techniques
by Susan I Buchalter, ATR-BC, CGP, LPC
Creative, fun & fast therapeutic warm-ups! When a client walks into the therapy room they don’t know what to expect — they may be feeling anxious, unsure and perhaps fearful. Brief, art therapy warm-ups are the perfect way to break the ice and get clients feeling comfortable, less inhibited, and motivated to participate in individual or group therapy.

These unique 250 art exercises, based in mindfulness, CBT, and self-compassion, increase self-esteem, self-awareness and a feeling of success in artistic expression and communication, allowing clients to engage in therapeutic exercises without judgment. Using simple materials like paper, pencils and markers, these techniques can be immediately implemented in your practice to help your clients with anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, relationship issues, life changes and more!
Get to Know Your Speaker — The Creativity Queen!

Laura Dessauer, Ed.D., ATR-BC, LCAT, LMHC,  is a board-certified art therapist with a doctoral degree in counselling psychology working with families for 25+ years in over 21 school districts. Dr. Dessauer’s work has been included in Parent’s MagazineeHow ParentingYourTangoFoxNewsPBS “This Emotional Life”, Lifetime NetworkWorking Mother, and Psychology Today. Dr. Dessauer is contributing author of “Healing with Art and Soul: Engaging One’s Self Through Art Modalities” (Cambridge Scholars, 2009). She has presented at the Eighteenth Annual National Expressive Therapy Conference, National American Art Therapy Association 40th Anniversary Conference, and American Art Therapy Association Institute for Creative Education in Art Therapy (ICE/AT), and has created international online training courses for therapists.

Dr. Dessauer is passionate about helping families develop creative ways to confidently communicate and creatively connect. In her private practice, she specializes in working with children who shutdown, meltdown and act out. She playfully blends cognitive behavioural skills, art-making, and creative problem solving to help clients create individualized social, emotional, and behaviours interventions that “stick to their brain”. She has created a relaxation CD, “The Creativity Queen’s Superfabulicious Self-Soothing CD”, and therapeutic colouring book, “The Creativity Queen’s Superfabulicious Colorific Adventure Book” for her clients. Her business, the Creativity Queen, LLC, was the winner of the 2007 Small Business of the Year Award (SCORE).

Learn more about Laura Dessauer.

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Learning that Fits YOUR Schedule:
Watch your email for an order confirmation with the account access link to get started on materials instantly. View any of the video modules at your convenience with immediate entry into the online portal. You'll have unlimited access to all the materials, and you can download everything to keep for future reference! Plus, use the CE21 Mobile™ app to access the course content on-the-go, wherever and whenever you want on your mobile devices. Click here for course objectives and outline
 
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Interact and collaborate with other professionals in the online community through chat boards and online forums. Participants love sharing ideas, asking questions and networking with other practitioners!
 
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Complete your CPD tests online at the completion of each module, with instant access to your CPD certificates - earn up to 6.25 CPD hours.
 
Continuing Professional Development Certificates:
PsychOz Publications, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognised by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation.

Art Therapy for Kids:
Creative Interventions for Trauma, ADHD, Mood Disorders & More
Valued Over $252.95 AUD
Today Only 129.95 (GST Inclusive) — An Unbelievable Value!
Plus, earn up to 6.25 CPD hours — included in the course tuition!
 
NOTE: No additional discounts or coupons may be applied to this course.
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