Laura Dessauer – Art Therapy: 77 Creative Interventions For Challenging Children Who Shut Down, Meltdown, Or Act Out

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Laura Dessauer – Art Therapy: 77 Creative Interventions For Challenging Children Who Shut Down, Meltdown, Or Act Out
Do you have clients who are stuck, repeating the same patterns over and over and you feel like you’re powerless to help them? You know the ones that repeatedly refuse to listen and don’t stop to think before they act. Or those who refuse to take responsibility for their behaviors and constantly pass blame onto others? Do they leave you feeling stagnant and burnt out in your practice? Do you work with challenging children and families who seem absolutely resistant to every intervention you offer?
Let me help you, like I have helped other therapists. Watch this seminar and learn new innovative interventions to help even your most resistant clients become unstuck. Your day will consist of creative, interactive, hands-on training that will re-energize your work. You will leave with 77 fresh new art strategies and approaches that you can use immediately to engage even your most difficult and challenging clients.
No art experience is necessary, just an openness to try something creative.

Explore art therapy directives to immediately implement into therapy practice to help children regulate their emotions and behaviors.
Consider the ethical implications and clinical limitations of using art therapy in clinical practice.
Determine the stages of a child’s normative development, and identify the indicators suggesting a need for additional clinical support.
Summarize the benefits of utilizing an art therapy approach in assessment, diagnosis and clinical treatment of mental health disorders.
Develop a plan for introducing art into clinical practice for treatment resistant and challenging children and families.
Determine the neurobiological implications of using art therapy among clients with various diagnoses.

Which clients benefit from art therapy?
Ethical implications and limitations of using art therapy in your practice
Creating products vs creative process
Go with the flow

Clinical Application of Art Therapy

What materials to use and when
Normative development in art making and developmental stages
Indicators in the artwork that suggest a child needs more support
Seeing it differently (client perspective)
Art talk, they made it now what?

CREATIVE TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES TO…

Build Relationships & Connection

For ASD, Trauma & ODD

Quality world
Magical thinking
About me collage
Play building
Collaborative drawings
Group activities
Family art making

Build Safety

For Trauma, Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Containers, containers, containers….boxes, circles, worry and calm down jars
Create a safe place
Color it in
Special person
A gift
Erasers
Hurt heart
Animal family & other family art activities
Trauma feelings
Coming and going
3 wishes

Build Self-Esteem

For ADHD, Anxiety & Mood disorders

Inside out
Mask making
Strong person
Power animals
Tree drawings
Yeahs & yucks
Self portraits
Beading, knitting, weaving, sewing, rainbow loom

Increase Responsibility

For ADHD, Trauma, ASD, ODD, Anxiety & Mood disorders

Miracle question
Create the problem
The science experiment
A really bad day
An ideal day
Feeling faces
Bridges

Cartooning problems & solutions
Increase Control

For ADHD, Anxiety & Mood disorders

Change the channel
Chill out boxes
Brain dump
Blow it out
Spray it away
On the other hand
Feelings volcano
Sensory play: finger painting, paper folding, dripping, goop & more
Mindful mandalas
Scribble scrabble
Imaginary problem solver
Road drawing