An Overview of Workshops at ATIR

This page gives a brief overview of workshops offered by ATIR. For a more detailed description or to register for the workshop, click on the workshop title.

• Art Therapy Across the Developmental Spectrum
  • Art Therapy with Infants, Toddlers & Preschool Children
    The use of art media and toys in the assessment and treatment of children from infancy through the preschool years.
  • Art Therapy with School-Age Children
    The use of art media and toys in the assessment and treatment of school age children, ages 6-12 years old.
  • Art Therapy with Adolescents: Discovering the Self
    The therapeutic use of art therapy and play therapy with a variety of adolescent populations, skills to facilitate expression, awareness and change

• Introduction to Child Therapy
  Creating an optimal child therapy setting, selecting art and play media, interviewing of parents or caregivers, basic developmental assessment, treatment planning, and treatment using a variety of creative arts.

• Family Art Therapy
  The use of drawings and art making in family therapy; the use of art media with families; practical application of a variety of assessment and treatment interventions

• Grant Writing for the Creative Arts Therapies
  An active learning experience for effective grant writing for non-profit funding for the creative arts therapies, mental health services, and other community service programs

• Healing the Healer
  An opportunity to identify, release and heal the stress associated with very demanding clinical work and work settings. Information, self-assessments, and creative arts to rediscover and redefine the dedication, passion, and hope that often becomes lost in an overload of difficult and exhausting cases, regulations, and paper work

• Neuro-Developmental Art Therapy: The Art & Science of PTSD Treatment
  The assessment and treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and symptoms using a model of treatment based on neurobiology, development and the pychological reactions to traumatic stress.

• Pediatric Medical Art Therapy
  Three-day course at the UCSF Children’s Hospital about the tenets of medical art therapy with hospitalized children, teens and families with exposure to child life philosophy and practice, and practical experience in the hospital setting.

• The Therapeutic Use of Symbol, Image & Metaphor
  How to facilitate the non-verbal expressions and how to discover meaning in the symbolic and metaphorical language of the right-hemisphere. Learn ways to facilitate expression and also how to contain and titrate expression in the use of the arts in therapy for children, teens and families.