Participants will be able to:

• Explain why integrating art experience within the AIP model and eight phases can help increase client readiness for phase 4 processing.
• Identify how to help clients increase affect tolerance and a state of calm for processing using art materials such as clay, pastels, drawing, and sand
• Practice how to use art materials with scripts to help client’s kinesthetically and visually learn psychoeducation about trauma and behavior change techniques
• Practice using art materials to enhance resource development
• Identify how creative approaches can address mentalization skills to increase connection with adaptive information when processing attachment wounds
• Practice an art-based version of Fraser’s table to learn about different parts of self
• Explain three approaches for integrating art experience in Phase 4 to help process trauma, grief and loss
• Differentiate dissociative symptoms, dissociative disorders and ego states
• Practice an art-based approach to learning window of tolerance
• Identify how art has been used to identify attachment styles