Speaker(s):
Presentation: In a forensic setting, the therapist’s task of lowering the client’s defenses to help him rebuild a healthier self is often much more difficult when working with certain individuals (e.g. personality disorders, sex offenders, psychopathy, etc). Individuals serving longer sentences or those who are civilly committed may lose their sense of hope and have a need for diversion and escape from the bleakness of their routine. Creative therapies offer not only this diversion, but a safer way for offenders to express things that they may not be able to share through words. Techniques from modalities such as art, music, and cinema therapy can easily be integrated into the individual or group therapy setting to help reach patients who have difficulty with more traditional processing or talk therapy. In this presentation a variety of therapeutic techniques will be discussed along with case examples.
Objectives:
- Describe the utility of creative therapies in a forensic environment
- Identify an example of a technique for each of the following: art, music, and cinema therapy
- Define objectives for using basic creative therapy techniques with clients in your practice
Slides and Handouts:
Kircher_Coloring Outside the Lines for Spring Institute 2018.odp [Repaired]
Kircher_Coloring Outside the Lines for Spring Institute 2018.odp [Repaired]