Ft. Washington Campus, Temple University

The Healing Children Through Creativity: Child Art Therapy Training Workshop introduces the basic principles and practice of art therapy with emotionally, behaviorally, developmentally and medically challenged children.

This two-day workshop blends theories and experiential exercises, offering a thorough introduction in use of visual art as a powerful treatment modality for children. This training event reviews the history of art therapy, important evaluation techniques used by art therapists, and six case studies with child client/patient artworks.

This is an experiential workshop! As a participant, you are invited to draw, paint and sculpt a variety of art therapeutic exercises that help troubled children identify and express their thoughts, feelings, conflicts, strengths, and increase their self-esteem and coping skills.

Temple University Harrisburg and Temple University Fort Washington offer graduate credit through independent study to any participating student with an undergraduate degree. Certificates of attendance documenting 14 continuing education hours are available for a certificate processing fee of $15 each. TUH and TUFW also have the capability of offering Act 48 credits, which are required for school counselors, school social workers/school personnel in Pennsylvania.

This workshop has been approved for 14 continuing education hours through co-sponsorship of Temple University Harrisburg, a PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselor pre-approved provider of continuing education. These credit hours satisfy requirements for LSW/LCSW/LMFT/LPC biennial license renewal.

WHAT IS ART THERAPY?

According to the American Art Therapy Association, Art therapy is the therapeutic use of art making, within a professional relationship, by people who experience illness, trauma, or challenges in living, and by people

who seek personal development. Through creating art and reflecting on the art products and processes, people can increase awareness of self and others cope with symptoms, stress, and traumatic experiences; enhance cognitive abilities; and enjoy the life-affirming pleasures of making art.

Art therapists are professionals trained in both art and therapy. They are knowledgeable about human development, psycho-logical theories, clinical practice, spiritual, multicultural and artistic traditions, and the healing potential of art. They use art in treatment, assessment and research, and provide consultations to allied professionals. Art therapists work with people of all ages: individuals, couples, families, groups, and communities. They provide services, individually and as part of clinical teams, in settings that include mental health, rehabilitation, medical and forensic institutions; community; wellness centers; schools; nursing homes; corporate structures; open studios and independent practices.

The American Art Therapy Association, Inc. (AATA) sets educational, professional, and ethical standards for its members. The Art Therapy Credentials Board, Inc.(ATCB), an independent organization, grants credentials. Registration (ATR)is granted upon completion of graduate education and post-graduate supervised experience. Board Certification (ATR-BC) is granted to Registered Art Therapists who pass a written examination, and is maintained through continuing education. states regulate the practice of art therapy and in many states art therapists can become licensed as counselors or mental health therapists.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Catherine Rogers Jonsson is a registered art therapist with the American Art Therapy Certification Board (ATR, 1992) and a credentialed professional member of the American Art Therapy Association. She is a graduate of Columbia University in NYC (School of the Arts, MFA: Visual Art) and the University of Wisconsin-Superior (MA: Art Therapy). Catherine has 18 years of clinical art therapy experience and offers a mixture of creativity, humor, dynamic teaching and compassionate insights to her workshops.

Catherine founded the art therapy treatment services for the Children's Psychiatric Program (in-patient, aftercare and day hospital), the Adult Day Treatment Program and the Adolescent and Geriatric Psychiatric Units of Good Samaritan Hospital Center for Mental Health in Downers Grove, Illinois. In the greater Chicago area and in Alaska she established an art psychotherapy private practice for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral disturbances.

In Alaska, Catherine worked as an art psychotherapist for the Tanana Chiefs Conference Counseling Center with Alaska Native children and adolescents. Her enduring passion and specialty is in the area of Child and Adolescent Art Therapy in multi-cultural individual and group settings.

Catherine is also a professional artist based in Sweden with numerous solo and group exhibitions to her credit in the US and Europe. Her paintings and drawings are concerned with contemporary issues in politics, religion, philosophy and psychology.

A two-day experiential workshop in art therapy education held at the Temple University Harrisburg and Temple University Fort Washington campuses

Presenter: Catherine Rogers Jonsson, MFA, MA, ATR, Registered Art Therapist

Dates and Locations:

December 4 and 5, at
Temple University Harrisburg (TUH)

December 10 and 11, at
Temple University Fort Washington (TUFW)

Time: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuition: Early Bird registration deadline – Monday, November 16 - $300.00

Standard registration – after November 16 - $350.00

The workshop features:

Lectures with PowerPoint presentations and demonstrations.

Case studies and treatment strategies.

Hands-on assessments and exercises.

A more than 100-page training manual, including PowerPoint outlines.

Drawing, painting, and clay sculpture supplies.