Expressive Arts Therapy in Practice with Dyads, Families, and Community Systems
CME5013.01
Course Description
Summary
Students will explore the application of expressive arts therapies in working with dyads, families, and groups of community systems, from a range of ages and populations. These configurations of people may be in relationship in privileged, less, or non-privileged types of relationships. The use of intermodal expressive arts will be discussed as central to the therapeutic process.
Learning Outcomes
- • Demonstrate proficiency in the use of expressive arts therapies in psychotherapy sessions with dyads, families, or community systems.
- • Demonstrate how to weave intermodal expressive arts with multiple people who are in relationship with one another.
- • Demonstrate the ability to create a safe and supportive environment for multiple clients who are in therapy together (multidirected partiality) fostering trust in each member of the relationship, with one another and the therapist.
- • Apply EXAT in ways that are developmentally and contextually informed with people in relationship with one another.