~Professional Training Opportunities
POST-GRADUATE CONTINUING EDUCATION CEC COURSE TO BE OFFERED 2012-2013
Specialization in Child Art Therapy: Child Centered Art Therapy in a Family Therapy Context
Art therapists may earn up to 36 AATA continuing education credits.
The Child and Family Art Therapy Center is offering a nine-part post-graduate continuing education program called “Specialization in Child Art Therapy: Child Centered Art Therapy in a Family Therapy Context” (AT/FT). The integrative AT/FT model selects and mixes together the best qualities of individual child art therapy, family art therapy and parent training into a comprehensive, strength based approach that honors children’s innate drive to heal, develop and grow. Theories in individual psychotherapy such as psychodynamic, Jungian, cognitive-behavioral, psychosocial, Ericksonian hypnosis, and person centered models are combined with family systems theory, psycho-education and parent training models. These are funneled through the unique treatment modality of art therapy.
To best teach this model, the AT/FT therapy program is deconstructed into nine monthly four-hour classes. The staggered sessions are designed to allow participants to gradually learn and practice the many concepts of this model without being overwhelmed in a single intense, long training. You may register for single classes of your interest or the entire course.
To deepen your learning, an optional 90-minute ATR group supervision will be offered after each monthly class for those who wish to process their own cases through the AT/FT lens.
Presenter: Michael Fogel, MA, ATR-BC, LPC
The Course: 9 classes meeting one Wednesday morning per month 8:30am-12:30pm
Supervision Option: An optional 90-minute AT/FT group supervision offered after each class from 1:30-2:30
Earn: 36 CEC’s upon completion of the full program;
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4 CEC’s for each single class session you attend
Where: The Child and Family Art Therapy Center 678 Pont Reading Rd. Ardmore, PA 19003 (Course site is convenient to SEPTA bus and rail routes)
When: Classes are held 8:30-12:30
Contact and Registration: For additional information, call Mike at (610) 649-1080 x1.
Class sequence, titles, and descriptions may be found in the printable brochure. 2010-2011 is not yet in print nor uploaded to this site. Watch this space for the printable brochure in Summer 2010. Correct 2010-2011 course dates and class titles may be found below:
Click here for printable brochure and program registration form.
- The Whole World in My Hands: Child Centered Art Therapy in a Family Therapy Context Model (AT/FT); Wednesday, October 20, 2010
- Getting to Know You: The Four Session Child/Family Assessment Procedure; Wednesday, November 17, 2010
- Follow Your Nose, It Always Knows: Developing a Child-Centered Frame in Art Therapy; Wednesday, December 8, 2010
- A Word is Worth A Thousand Pictures: Utilizing and Enhancing Children’s Metaphors and Storytelling in Child Centered Art Therapy; Wednesday, January 12, 2011
- The Missing Link: Effective Communication and Involvement of Parents and Caregivers in Child Art Therapy; Wednesday, February 9, 2011
- Love and Limits: Helping Parents and Caregivers Set Effective Structure and Discipline While Improving Relationships With Their Children; Wednesday, March 9, 2011
- I Can Handle That!: Cognitive/Behavioral Coping Skills Lessons for Children and Their Parents; Wednesday, April 6, 2011
- Organicity and Other “Untreatable Disorders”: Differential Diagnosis and Art Therapy Treatment of Neurological Disorders (Learning Disabilities, Asperger’s Syndrome, PDD, ADHD, Tourette’s Syndrome); Wednesday, May 11, 2011
- Professional Empowerment: Integrating the AT/FT model from Assessment to Treatment to Discharge; and, Design and Build Your Own Successful Child Art Therapy Private Practice; Wednesday, June 1, 2011