[Download Now] Mindful Art Therapy and Emotional Regulation – Azita Sachmechian

Help you deal with difficult clients by increasing treatment success.

A strong cornerstone for successful psychotherapy is the ability to maintain a calm state of mind during a crisis. When faced with a crisis, a dysregulated individual who is often suffering from psychological disorder comes to treatment.

Due to the nature of crisis, clinicians end up regulating their over stressed clients session after session without being able to dig into the pathology. Many clinicians are mandated to follow certain time-bound protocols due to the high popularity of evidence-based programs. A source of major stress for the clinician is treating acutely stressed individuals in the context of managed care policies. The clinician is often the target of emotional outbursts from their dysregulated clients who project their pain and transference onto them, making them the prime target of emotion dysregulation.

New techniques to help your clients regulate efficiently as well as how to teach these techniques to your clients will be discovered in this course. Through art therapy, clients will be able to move past the crisis and deal with the real issues at hand. You will learn how to remain emotionally regulated while dealing with difficult clients.

1. Discuss the most recent studies on the issue of emotion regulation and brain circuitry
2. Discover the most current treatment approaches including art therapy and mindfulness approaches for emotion regulation offered for different populations
3. Apply techniques in the context of evidence-based programs and managed care timeframe
4. Explore innovative techniques combining mindfulness and art therapy techniques (Mindful-Art therapy) for optimal emotion regulation
5. Identify common mistakes in applying art and mindfulness techniques; how to avoid dysregulating and traumatizing your clients
6. Demonstrate how to regulate yourself using Mindful-Art therapy technique in the presence of a very difficult client

Current research.

• Introduction to emotion regulation and dysregulation
• Brain circuitry and emotion regulation
• Effect of art therapy and emotion regulation
• Mindfulness and emotion regulation
• Emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder
• Emotion dysregulation in PTSD
• Emotion dysregulation in general public

There are treatments available for emotional disorders.

• DBT
• Trauma-Focused CBT
• Sensory Motor Psychotherapy
• Accelerated Experiential/Dynamic Psychotherapy

There is art therapy and emotional regulation.

• Emotion regulation through use of clay
• Emotion regulation through use of paper
• Multimedia approach

The word of caution is to be careful with the art material.

• Paint and dysregulation
• Size of the paper and dysregulation

There is a case study of art coming downhill.

There are innovative emotional regulation technologies in dementia-based programs.

• Visual Distancing
• Visual Perceptual Shift
• Grounding
• Perceptual body awareness

Hand-on. Experience.

• Image making of the bodily sensation

There are case studies and therapy techniques.

There is a practical application of the technology in the context of evidence-based programs.

• Evidence-based programs general structure
• Techniques through assessment phase
• Techniques through treatment phase

Emotional regulation is based on intuition.

• Amplified Groundedness (shifting gear technique)

There are art activities and participation.

• Visualizing a very difficult client
• Practicing perceptual awareness and groundedness
• Build your own ways of “Shifting Gear”

There is a case study of conscientiousness.

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