(3 CEU Live Webinar) FREE. The Multiple Self-States Drawing Technique: Creative Assessment and Treatment with Children and Adolescents

This webinar discusses Dr. Susan C. Parente's recent publication, “The Multiple Self-States Drawing Technique: Creative Assessment and Treatment with Children and Adolescents” (Routledge, 2019). Psychologically overwhelming and traumatic experiences lay the groundwork for dissociated, disowned or disavowed self-state processes – rendering individuals as experiencing “me” and “not me” states. The MSSDT is a contemporaneous version of a projective figure drawing activity providing a novel opportunity to bridge the gap in youngsters’ awareness of discrete emotional states.

Emotionally dysregulated, trauma-based, and dissociative self-states are discovered and compassionately explored, while focusing on adaptive, resilient states of well-being is encouraged and promoted. The experiential, psycho-educational tool can foster a beneficial relational encounter, therapeutic self-expression, and promote a mentalizing stance. Treatment strategies may emerge from expressed material. The MSSDT, an arts-based, creative, trans-diagnostic, clinical assessment tool may be advantageous for practitioners endorsing diverse therapeutic orientations, modalities, and integrative approaches. Workshop participants will be guided through the MSSDT experience.

Learning Objectives:
•  Review the principles of affect regulation as related to clinical practice
•  Understand the neurobiological model of trauma and multiple self-states
•  Learn how to the use of the MSSDT as a tool and technique for clinical assessment and treatment of child and adolescent psychotherapy patients.