Expressive Arts Therapy: Trauma-Informed Tools for Youth and Young Adults

 

Using a trauma-informed lens, this recorded training offers tools from Expressive Arts Therapy for working with youth and young adults. Presenter Suraya Keating, MFT, REAT, RDT, discusses a variety of multimodal arts practices that can be used to soothe the nervous system; promote self-awareness; and support the agency, empowerment, and well-being of youth and young adults. Simple interventions using visual arts, visualization, movement, creative writing, music, and theater are introduced as embodied alternatives to talk therapy that are rooted in attuning to the unique needs and diverse background of each youth or young adult client.  This training video is designed around the framework of the four most common trauma responses (fight, flight, freeze, and fawn), and a variety of effective bottom-up and top-down arts strategies are incorporated to address each of these four responses.

Published
March 16, 2022
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english
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