Date: Friday October 5, 2007, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Presenter: Bess Green, MSEd, LPC, ATR-BC
Location: Austin Child Guidance Center, 810 W. 45th St., Austin, TX 78751
Cost: $10 charge for c.e.u.’s. There is no charge if you don’t want c.e.u.’s.
To Register: Email trainings@austinchildguidance.org or call Linda at 512-451-2242. Space is limited.
Note: If your space is confirmed and you find you cannot attend, please email trainings@austinchildguidance.org to cancel, since we frequently have a waiting list for others to attend.
About the Presentation:
This presentation will give a brief overview of various models and concepts which are helpful in working with children and families who have experienced trauma in brief therapy. The models each integrate easily with sensory based interventions such as art, sand, or play. Presenter and attendees will design an art directive based on treatment concerns for a brainstormed case. Attendees will be asked to make art following the directive.
About the Presenter:
Bess Green, MSEd, LPC, ATR-BC is a board certified registered art therapist and licensed professional counselor. She has been working with children and families who have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse for more than ten years in a community setting. She has also experience working with adults and children in an acute hospital setting.
Having majored in studio art as an undergraduate, Ms. Green was familiar with the power of art to explore the richness and complexity of emotional life and the power to create a bridge between artist and viewer. Art therapy training strengthened her conviction that art helped clients who had experienced trauma, find their voice. Further research into working with relational and solution focused counseling models led to an approach that was supportive but also effective given a brief treatment frame.
Ms. Green is currently working at Austin State Hospital . She provides group and limited individual art therapy services to adult and latency age groups in an acute setting. She is currently leading a workgroup to design programming for ArtSpace, an intensive, arts based program to be located on the grounds of the State Hospital. ArtSpace seeks to provide a studio setting using visual arts, music, dance and drama to assist clients in investing in and continuing their recovery from mental illness.
