Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy: Foundation Course

This is the 12 CE foundation course for understanding how art therapy and other arts-based approaches enhance trauma-informed practice with children, teens, adults and families.

This is a more comprehensive version of the live course of the same name offered by Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute.

This is the first course in the Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy Level One Certificate Program. This course provides participants with an understanding trauma-informed practice and in particular, trauma-informed expressive arts therapy as it applies to trauma intervention with children, teens, and adults who have experienced loss, abuse, disaster or other events.
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Session Objectives:

Each session is designed to provide an overview of the topics outlined in the syllabus. Participants complete short assignments, quizzes, arts-based activities and written responses to enhance their understanding of the essential components in the application of trauma-informed practice using art and creative approaches to trauma intervention.
Participants will also complete a comprehensive final exam at the end of the course.

About the Presenter:

Cathy Malchiodi, PhD,
LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, REAT

Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, REAT holds a doctorate in psychology and is an expressive arts therapist specializing in the treatment of traumatic stress.
For the last three decades Cathy has worked with traumatized children, adolescents, adults, and families, expanding the range of understanding of non-verbal, sensory-based concepts and methods.
She is the executive director of the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute that has provided online and live training in expressive and somatosensory approaches to over 35,000 practitioners around the world.  

Cathy is the 2022 Cecil and Eda Green Honors Chair on trauma and expressive arts and is an investigator in a 3.7-million-dollar, five-year grant with the US Department of Education, integrating expressive arts therapy into classrooms.  A popular presenter and workshop leader, she given over 700 invited keynotes and workshops throughout the US, Canada, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.

She has authored 20 books, including the bestselling Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process and Understanding Children’s Drawings. Her publications have been translated in over 20 languages.  
Dr. Malchiodi has extensive experience in the areas of trauma, attachment, disaster relief, and adversity. She has assisted more than 500 agencies, organizations, and institutions in developing trauma-informed, expressive, and responsive programming including the World Health Organization, United Nations, Department of Defense, Kennedy Center, Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins, and numerous universities, mental health, community, and healthcare agencies in the US and throughout the world.

Widely interviewed by a variety of news outlets, she has been featured Time Magazine, CNN, Cosmopolitan, Natural Living, Marie Clare, Australia Childhood Foundation, US News and World Report, and VICE, among others. She is a contributing writer for Psychology Today and has a readership of approximately 5.8 million on topics relevant to trauma recovery and restoration of the self, arts in healthcare and mental health, and self-care.
She has been working in the fields of positive psychology, coaching and mentoring for the past 9 years. 

Course Curriculum

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