Expressive Arts with Elderly ClientsDates:April 16-17, 2010 Location:John F. Kennedy University Credit Hours: 10 See the JFKU website to register and for more information. Course Description:In this course, participants will explore normative and critical issues that arise in aging through a Jungian expressive arts therapy lens. Expressive arts provides an array of creative ways to connect with physical, emotional, existential and spiritual aspects of the self, allowing elderly clients the freedom to convey their deepest thoughts and feelings, even when their neurological, cognitive and verbal centers have deteriorated, to express grief over regrets and losses in a fuller way, and to manage any anxiety and fear they may have about the experience of death. Participants will leave this course with expressive art techniques they can begin to use with aging clients and their families. Please note: There is a $10 in-class materials fee. This course meets the 3-hour Aging & Long-Term Care requirement for psychologists, MFTs & LCSWs. This class can be taken as a stand-alone course or as part of the JFKU Expressive Arts certificate program. For information about this certificate, click here. Instructor Biography:Kate Donohue, PhD, REAT, is a licensed psychologist and a registered expressive arts therapist who has been in private practice for 30 years. Cofounder of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, Kate has taught expressive arts at California Institute of Integral Studies, Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, JFK University and the San Francisco C.G. Jung Institute. |
