Creative Family Therapy Techniques
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Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S |
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| Date: | Friday, December 3, 2010 | ||
| Time: | 9:00 am to 4:30 pm | ||
| Location: | Koffler House/Multi-Faith Centre, University of Toronto 569 Spadina Avenue, Toronto (Click here for directions.) |
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| Fee: | $165 up to September 9 $175 after September 9 (Please see Fees page for multiple-registration discounts.) |
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Children are often excluded from family therapy because many practitioners don’t know how to effectively engage them. Creative activities in family therapy such as games, art, puppets, and storytelling can help engage and facilitate the participation of all family members regardless of age. Play and expressive arts techniques, in particular, have an advantage over traditional “talk therapy” because these techniques offer children a more developmentally appropriate means to communicate. Additionally, play and arts activities can reveal family dynamics and patterns of interaction.
Through this dynamic workshop, participants will learn several innovative techniques to engage, assess, and treat families. You will receive an overview on the advantages of using creative techniques with families and learn tips for overcoming challenges. Videos and live demonstrations will be used to illustrate techniques.
You will learn —
- The benefits to using play, art, and other expressive techniques in family therapy
- How to assess families using innovative play and arts techniques
- How to translate assessment material into a treatment plan
- How to choose activities and techniques that are developmentally appropriate
- Three common challenges in family therapy and specific strategies to overcome these challenges
- Many new and creative techniques that can be used in treatment sessions with families
Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S, is an author, sought-after speaker, and practitioner with over 20 years of specialized work with children, adolescents, and their families. She provides clinical supervision to mental health practitioners and consults for several mental health agencies. She has a reputation as a dynamic workshop leader and has presented trainings across North America and abroad. She has authored numerous publications, including the highly-acclaimed books, Paper Dolls & Paper Airplanes: Therapeutic Exercises for Sexually Traumatized Children (with Crisci & Lay), Creative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth, Creative Interventions for Children of Divorce, and Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children. Her most recent publication is a book she edited, entitled Creative Family Therapy Techniques. She has also edited an eBook called Favorite Therapeutic Activities for Children and Teens: Practitioners Share Their Most Effective Techniques which is available at no cost on her website: www.lianalowenstein.com.