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Understanding Art in the Playroom
Overview:
In this experiential workshop, participants will explore the importance of understanding spontaneous art in the playroom through the lens of art development theory and child development. Clinical examples of spontaneous art will be combined with the opportunity to experience the making of art with theoretical dialogue.
Pre-requisite Training Needed by Participants:
Basic understanding of play therapy and child development
Objectives:
• Participants will use own artwork to explore interpretation vs. understanding when analyzing a child’s artwork created in play therapy.
• Participants will evaluate Lowenfield’s stages of art development to use with observing art created in play therapy.
• Participants will analyze art materials that are used in play therapy, addressing control, safety, and advantages vs. disadvantages.
• Participants will examine spontaneous artwork created in playroom utilizing Lowenfield’s drawing characteristics, space representation, and human representation as guidelines.
• Participants will be able to identify possible “red flags” in artwork created in playroom using developmental stages of art.
• Participants will produce their own artwork in several exercises to gain a better understanding of introducing artwork in the playroom.
• Participants will be able to describe art techniques to use in the playroom to deepen the therapist’s development understanding of the child’s world and the child’s development.
• Participants will be able to conceptualize artwork as the work progresses and regresses throughout play therapy sessions.
Cost $240 for 8 contact (in person) CEs
Register:
Understanding art in the Playroom
About the Presenter
Leah Fowlkes Miller, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S™ is the owner and founder of the Counseling Center of Expressive Arts in El Paso, Texas. She has worked with families, couples, adolescents, and children for over 25 years. She completed her masters in counseling at Webster University and did a post-graduate study at the University of Oklahoma in art therapy. Leah received her PhD from the University of North Texas in Counseling and Higher Education with a specialty in play therapy.
APT Approved provider # 14-368
Play therapy credit is available to mental health professionals and graduate students in a mental health program
