Ellen Horovitz – Art Therapy: Hands-on Approaches to Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment
Ellen Horovitz – Art Therapy: Hands-on Approaches to Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment
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- Incorporate creative art therapy techniques and interventions for anxiety, PTSD, mood disorders, physical and sexual abuse, dual diagnosis, co-morbidity and more
- Spot normal vs. abnormal development in art
- Recognize cognitive, physical, and emotional irregularities in art
Do you have clients who are stuck, repeating the same patterns over and over and you feel powerless to help them? Are they often resistant to the interventions you offer?
Join internationally known art therapist, Dr. Ellen Horovitz, in this hands-on workshop where she will show you how to incorporate expressive art therapies into your practice in a disarming, imaginative and emotionally-safe manner.
Reach your most resistant patients with evidence-based practices that cut through an array of disorders, including mood, personality, developmental-learning, eating and body disorders. You’ll learn to identify both normal and abnormal artwork from cognitive, physical, emotional and developmental platforms. Add value to your clinical practice by learning creative art therapy modalities that succeed with individuals, couples and families.
Patient video footage of difficult case studies and active hands-on participation will demonstrate how to incorporate these assessments and modalities into your practice. No prior experience necessary!
- Knowing Art Therapy
- Know the ethical implications of using art therapy in your practice
- Learn the psychotherapy behind the art and its language
- Development and Clinical Applications
- Identify normal and abnormal developmental levels of artwork, including organicity and TBI
- Streamline your reports using the apps such as Genogram Analytics, BetterMind, and Limbix
- Assessment: Hands on Activities
- Art Therapy Dream Assessment (ATDA)
- Video case study: Mourning and loss, dually diagnosed patient
- Experience the ADTA firsthand
- Practice how to dialogue with the patient
- Belief Art Therapy Assessment (BATA)
- Video case study: Mourning and loss, dually diagnosed patient
- Experience the BATA firsthand
- Practice how to dialogue with the patient
- Cognitive Art Therapy Assessment (CATA)
- Video case study: Schizophrenic spiraling into OCD moment
- Learn how to redirect the patient
- Experience the CATA and its importance in first art therapy session
- Conducting Additional Assessments
- Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD)
- The Road Test
- Person Picking an Apple From a Tree (PPAT)
- The Bridge Drawing
- Hands-on Techniques for Specific Populations
- OCD and schizophrenic – fiber work
- PTSD, co-morbidity – mask making
- Dysmorphia, eating disorders, and more – body tracings
- Mood Disorders – Breath of Joy exercises
- Sexual/physical abuse survivors – co-operative blankets exercises, safe place/containers
- Couple/ Family Collaborative Drawing Techniques
- Aggressive, self-harming populations – 3-D exercises, paper exercise
- All populations – word exercise – the bag exercise, self-esteem techniques
- Bring an image of your younger self to the workshop or use a current image from your smartphone – Phototherapy techniques
- Art Therapy Dream Assessment (ATDA)
What is Health?

In 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined health with a phrase that modern authorities still apply.
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
In 1986, the WHO made further clarifications:
“A resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities.”
This means that health is a resource to support an individual’s function in wider society, rather than an end in itself. A healthful lifestyle provides the means to lead a full life with meaning and purpose.
In 2009, researchers publishing inThe Lancet defined health as the ability of a body to adapt to new threats and infirmities.
They base this definition on the idea that the past few decades have seen modern science take significant strides in the awareness of diseases by understanding how they work, discovering new ways to slow or stop them, and acknowledging that an absence of pathology may not be possible.
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