POST-GRADUATE CONTINUING EDUCATION CEC COURSE 

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.

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     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. The final class integrates all of the pieces into a clear working model. You may register for single classes of your interest or the entire course.     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 plus a certificate in child art therapy upon completion of the full program;

or

4 CEC’s for each single class session you attend

Where: The Child and Family Art Therapy Center  678 Pont Reading Rd.  Ardmore, PA 19003Course site is conventient to SEPTA bus and rail routesWhen: Classes are held 8:30-12:30Contact and Registration: For additional information, call Mike at (610) 649-1080 x1.Class Sequence and Meeting Times (complete class descriptions may be found on the printable brochure):1. The Whole World in My Hands: Child Centered Art Therapy in a Family Therapy Context Model (AT/FT); November 7, 20072. Getting to Know You: The Four Session Child/Family Assessment Procedure; Wednesday, December 12, 20073. Follow Your Nose, It Always Knows: Developing a Child-Centered Frame in Art Therapy; Wednesday, January 9, 20084. A Word is Worth A Thousand Pictures: Utilizing and Enhancing Children’s Metaphors and Storytelling in Child Centered Art Therapy;Wednesday, February 6, 20085. The Missing Link: Effective Communication and Involvement of Parents and Caregivers in Child Art Therapy; Wednesday, March 12, 20086. Love and Limits: Helping Parents and Caregivers Set Effective Structure and Discipline While Improving the Connection With Their Children;Wednesday, April 9, 20087. I Can Handle That!: Cognitive/Behavioral Coping Skills Lessons for Children and Their Parents; Wednesday, May 7, 20088. 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, June 4, 20089. 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 25, 2008

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