tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432110721469685652024-02-06T18:57:13.541-08:00ArtLight Therapy & StudiosArtLight Therapy & Studios - Illuminating the path to healing through creativity.Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643211072146968565.post-51216167315138514352022-03-22T09:48:00.002-07:002022-03-22T09:48:39.108-07:00<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Remembering this piece about using art in </b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>counseling...</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQfeOw35Py8Oq4NfPoB3mPSkayGeLz8VDSoXtVXtSr5Jq1oAoSSjs6f4huxcebjRJaqMpuMSsS5r3XQCp0hTHwbyRtQAzm5mPjliqJyEBHfLGzrWqlUlZppWGW1Vjp-1Mxmz3GrDsdcMOaHjjGHvXj8X1wf5UcFog7t33Nf5qZOTrC5JrvGnUscLdHOg/s720/Slide07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQfeOw35Py8Oq4NfPoB3mPSkayGeLz8VDSoXtVXtSr5Jq1oAoSSjs6f4huxcebjRJaqMpuMSsS5r3XQCp0hTHwbyRtQAzm5mPjliqJyEBHfLGzrWqlUlZppWGW1Vjp-1Mxmz3GrDsdcMOaHjjGHvXj8X1wf5UcFog7t33Nf5qZOTrC5JrvGnUscLdHOg/s320/Slide07.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Healing through Art</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">“Death is a mystery to all of us and sometimes words <b>are not</b> enough. Art <b>making provides</b> a way to symbolically express our feelings as we begin to heal,” says Joni Beckner.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><br />Art has always been an important part of Joni’s life, <b>a hobby as a child which grew into free-lance illustration and fine art work. </b>Now as an art therapist at Hospice, her love for art is helping grieving children and teens learn to cope with loss.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Joni received her master’s degree in art therapy January 2008 and she has been a hospice grief counselor since 2000. “I always knew I wanted to pursue art therapy; what solidified <b>that desire</b> was my observation of just how <b>valuable the medium is in working</b> with children and teens. Art allows kids to work through <b>emotions and experiences</b> that they may not be able to <b>access and</b> express in traditional talk therapy,” she says.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Because children and teens deal with grief and loss very differently than adults, it is important for them to express themselves in ways that they feel comfortable. <br /><br />“<b>The art piece or product provides some reflective distance</b> from their feelings. It allows them to put their thoughts, feelings and emotions on paper or into a project. The focal point then becomes the art project <b>instead of the individual, which makes them feel more at ease in a group, when talking with their peers,” </b>says Joni.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">“We use art <b>making</b> in many ways, at our grief <b>support</b> groups, in our one-on-one counseling sessions and also at our grief camps,” she says. Last year at teen camp each of the teens decorated a mask as a response to their feelings after losing a loved one. The mask project provides kids with a creative and <b>expressive</b> outlet—a new way to respond to their grief.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">“The exercise is used to demonstrate how sometimes we mask our emotions. The teens are able to represent themselves through their art and their peers are really interested in what they have to say. Working with the masks provides a way for the teens to <b>demonstrate their self-identity</b> and relate to each other’s experiences,” says Joni.<o:p></o:p></p>Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643211072146968565.post-34850010290821891232022-01-12T15:45:00.001-08:002022-01-12T15:47:57.521-08:00Hope 2021<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgW7UmSEgLjpnyWC0oAs26xex-0hiQt6aHiiBa3XAzQRScsdrkx4vdioPPq7yKGTdRaPlignDIzoXa_k4GdvH2eNZZ35K1XnnNrbSh3MRzJmEU82vdVVGvLjCbo4WOjfOzlxxJ9v5tLzunCnZqMwjBwI0qUZxgiLSUkq7cfcMrFKoV3Ob6SdRG2E7s7xw=s3335" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3335" data-original-width="2646" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgW7UmSEgLjpnyWC0oAs26xex-0hiQt6aHiiBa3XAzQRScsdrkx4vdioPPq7yKGTdRaPlignDIzoXa_k4GdvH2eNZZ35K1XnnNrbSh3MRzJmEU82vdVVGvLjCbo4WOjfOzlxxJ9v5tLzunCnZqMwjBwI0qUZxgiLSUkq7cfcMrFKoV3Ob6SdRG2E7s7xw=s320" width="254" /></a></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><b>For HopeWest Kids. Acrylic & collage. 2021</b></span></span></div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><b><br />A piece I wrote last year in my position as Director of Youth Programs at HopeWest.</b></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><b>Let's keep hoping...</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">Hope</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"> shows us how to act.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">Hope</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"> keeps us going.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">Hope</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"> is a healer.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">When we have <b>hope</b>, we are more likely to see the opportunities that come our way and to believe in and choose a path that leads to a peaceful and meaningful life. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;">Hope:</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;"> “to cherish a desire with anticipation: to want something to happen or be true”. Webster<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;">Dear Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;">Last year, in 2020, the National Alliance for Grieving Children’s campaign was: “Believe there is hope in the world”. Within that phrase is: ‘Be the Hope in the World’ The focus of that awareness campaign has me thinking about ways in which we hold and instill hope for the children and teens of our community, who come to us heartbroken and confused in the midst of an illness or after death of a of loved one.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;">In 2020, our pandemic year, we adapted services in so many ways: reaching out using virtual platforms in way we would have never imagined, companioning children and teens through their losses using new and modified on-line resources, creating activity kits enabling to work independently with their support of their families, adding summer programming in the form of small/ distanced groups and even supporting other clinicians and teachers with a newly developed consulting role for bereavement support in our schools. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;">In Grand Junction we provided support to nearly 420 children and teens: 131 in individual counseling sessions, compared to 149 in 2019. We served 231 in school groups, 24 in our family group and 18 in summer groups and open studio sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;">We made every effort to make support available in a year of isolation and unprecedented uncertainty, providing:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;">…the creative space for the teen who lost his sister to suicide at home this year; the listening ear for the little girl whose mother died of cancer; the guidance for the teens whose mother died of chronic alcohol use, the support for the one whose grandparent who lived far away and died in a time we couldn’t make visits. To sit with them through pain and to listen to every story they had to tell, that is to companion, and thus transform their grief experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;">Who would believe, in such a year, that we could continue to provide support, counseling conversations and walks with kids who were reeling from losses of friends and loved ones? Who would have believed that were able to continue to meet kids where they are in their grief experience and to provide and continue to develop a level of expertise that allows for safe specialized care that enables change- even transformation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;">You believed!... and we are seated in such gratitude for your encouragement and support. For what else is there if we do not show up and stay present; if we do not hold the hand of our children and guide our teens through the experience of grief and loss that they may understand and heal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;">Hope is the heart of this work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;">As long as we can instill hope in the hearts of the children and teens in our community, they can grow through their loss and heal…we can heal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;">As long as we have your support, we can do just that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;">Hope</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.979999542236328px;"> is the last thing ever lost. (Italian proverb)<o:p></o:p></span></p>Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643211072146968565.post-40100819397772527792019-12-15T10:04:00.001-08:002019-12-16T15:13:11.815-08:00<b><i><u>Helping Teens Journey Through Grief</u></i></b><br />
Published in News To Friends @ HopeWest, Nov. 2019<br />
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The unique needs of adolescents and their development call for a variety of levels of creative, flexible and individualized support. This particular life stage is difficult enough for most adolescents with regard to identity, self-sufficiency, and independence. But, when a teen experiences a profound loss, their ideas about life are frequently shattered. <br />
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During this time, adolescents are searching for independence and focusing on relationships with their peers and less on their family. The primary developmental tasks of adolescence include: establishing individual identity, moving from concrete to abstract thinking, identifying meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems as well as developing increased autonomy. Although adolescents understand the concept of death, they have not learned that every major loss causes deep and life-altering changes in them.<br />
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Therefore, the death of a parent, family member, or friend can throw the teen into an unknown, lonely, and painful place. If this happens the teen may not know how or where they fit in anymore. For most teens, “fitting in” is very important and while working through grief, it is common to feel isolated and different. This dissonance is very uncomfortable. Feelings of helplessness, fear, anger, guilt, and vulnerability are common for teens that have lost a loved one.<br />
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Just as children have a tendency to regress while grieving; younger teens may revert to behaviors that they had previously outgrown and may search for a safer or less painful period in their development. Many older teens exhibit symptoms of grief that are similar to an adult, but may feel childlike on the inside. Teens may try to assume adult roles, even turning to and relying on peers for support while withdrawing from parents or other adults.<br />
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Coping with a major loss profoundly impacts teens and how they see themselves and their connectedness with the world. Teens may need to be given permission to grieve or be encouraged to take time for fun and pleasure. Allowing teens to fully express their feelings, including anger and hostility, and listening closely to their concerns and thoughts, is one of the best ways to support them through their grief.<br />
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The teen is in greater control of their communication; non-verbal communication is often more comfortable than putting ambivalent feeling to words. <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The pleasure and newness of the activity and “speaking in their own voice” often reduces resistance to the therapeutic process. <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When creating art, teens can problem solve “through the advantage of externalizing problems and taking a fresh view of them from a distance” (p.144). Teens can experiment with a change symbolically on a creative project, before they make real–life changes. </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;"> </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<br />Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643211072146968565.post-46290082367714514642019-01-20T11:12:00.004-08:002019-01-20T11:27:00.145-08:00 In honor of the American Art Therapy Association’s 50th, here is a photo of the envelope I keep from 1994-<br />
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the year I wrote, snail-mail style, to AATA to inquire about a graduate degree in art therapy and program requirements with that offering. I knew when I completed my undergrad in Social Work (a field I love and to which am called) that I would pursue art therapy. I also knew that pursuit would wait for the ‘right’ time.<br />
I’ve shared this before: the field is a beautiful, and at times seemingly perfect, albeit challenging, pairing of two deep interests: psychology and art.<br />
I remember a conversation with my uncle, an MFA, in which we both wondered aloud how coming out of a lower middle class family with our influences, we ended up in the arts. Both of us being told by my grandad, his father, that we couldn’t make a living in the arts. We both found our way: he an art center director, me a social worker- turned therapist combining visual arts and counseling.<br />
Every day I am grateful that I have had the opportunity to work in a field of dreams.Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643211072146968565.post-62704671429869767372019-01-06T19:25:00.002-08:002019-01-06T19:25:41.463-08:00One of my profession-related dreams came true this year: I had the privilege of supervising my first<br />
(and I say first as I believe that and plan for others to follow) art therapy graduate student for practicum. I got a call ‘out of the blue’ this Spring: a student taking a ‘long-shot’ to inquire about the possibility of completing an art therapy practicum with us at HopeWest Kids. She went further to say she was in a program in IN, which turned out to be where I attended graduate school, St. Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC ). At this point in my career, to take on the responsibility and really inspiring duty of ‘leading’ someone into this profession is one of its privileges. A bit of synchronicity was at work here as I had just taken my national exam for board-certification as an art therapist. The ATR-BC is an attractive credential for graduate programs and their students. It is now required for supervision in this profession. <br />
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Looking forward to this Spring semester with our first art therapy graduate intern!<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Teens in this setting typically have limited family support and often have a history of substance abuse, which complicates their bereavement experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their losses, in general, are more complicated and often occur under less than ideal or even violent circumstances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The group members often can make direct connections between their losses and their initial offense or crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The grief over the loss of their loved one is compounded by the losses associated with incarceration: freedom, independence, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>choices, contact with friends and family as well as identity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Establishing identity is a major developmental task for adolescents and art making provides a creative exploration and support the development of emerging positive identity of the teens.<br />
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My involvement
with Department of Youth Corrections has consisted of providing eight week
groups focused on bereavement support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art
therapy and creative writing directives have been utilized with this population
in an effort to provide meaningful expression to the experience of losing a
loved one and the resulting behavioral responses that are often connected to incarceration.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The creative process itself is healing
and encourages a sense of integrity and autonomy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Topics for group sessions included grief
education, feelings, story of the loved one, coping skills and memorializing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Riley, S. (1999). <i>Contemporary
Art Therapy with Adolescents</i>.
London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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For example, creative
writing was co-facilitated with a trained volunteer who is a professional
writer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Directives for free writing were
given after a prompt was read which included poetry, topic discussion or song
lyrics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Teens were given a set period of
time to “free write” a response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each group
member was given the opportunity to read their work aloud to the group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The writing exercise provided a way for teens
to express their thoughts and feelings in a non-judgmental atmosphere and to
develop and form vocabulary for their experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Very honored to be on this list. I'm in good company. Thank you Feedspot!<br />
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<br />Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643211072146968565.post-32886498159028512892017-07-04T18:17:00.001-07:002017-07-04T18:17:46.092-07:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“A meeting of the
world inside and the world outside” is how art therapy pioneer Eleanor Ulman
described her profession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art therapy is
a way of looking to and through experiences using imagery and the creative
process to find healing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It brings our
internal experiences into the light.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art therapists
complete a master’s level training and education in psychology, human
development and visual arts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They use
art in assessment and treatment in many settings including private practice and
open studios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many formal elements of
drawings provide developmental, emotional and cognitive information to the
trained therapist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The creative process
can access places in our brain that verbal processing alone may not be able to
reach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art making has always been a part of my
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In early childhood, I loved to
draw, often focusing on pictures of animals or nature scenes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mom once sent me to a day workshop for
artists at the Denver Zoo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was the
youngest “student” that memorable day of sketching giraffes, monkeys and bears!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This early
pleasure in art lead to many hours of drawing, painting and looking at other
artist’s work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The process of
illustrating and creating provided comfort and ‘companionship’ through both
normal life transitions and the difficult experiences of moving, changing
friendships, the divorce of my parents, illness and loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At high school graduation, I was awarded two
small scholarships to study commercial art at West Texas A & M.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I added undergraduate psychology courses that
piqued my interest in that profession as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ultimately, I decided to complete my bachelor’s degree in Social
Work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This led to a part-time position
at a state psycho-social rehabilitation center for chronically mentally ill
adults where I offered drawing and painting classes as well as life skills
training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About this time, my interest
in art therapy developed; I remember sending off a request for more information
to the American Art Therapy Association.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The profession seemed like a beautiful partnering of my interests in
psychology and art and my desire to help others- to somehow address the
suffering I could see among this exquisitely beautiful world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, in the fall of 2004 I began my graduate
work in art therapy, traveling to Indiana three times a year to complete
graduate residencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In January 2008, I
graduated from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College with a Master of Arts in Art
Therapy and obtained my license as a professional counselor in 2012.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art making is the
central focus of my counseling work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
images are forms of communication; they are meaningful responses to the world
around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are expressions that go
beyond words and often show us things about our circumstances and ourselves
that words are not able to articulate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Making art enhances perceptual acuity, increases cognitive functioning,
allows integration of the senses and activates our creative center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of these aspects are therapeutic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colored pencils
are a wonderful media to use in therapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are portable, anyone can use them and sometimes they are needed as
an expressive tool that allows colorful, emotional response that is easily
controlled. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In terms of the Media
Properties Continuum, colored pencil is in the resistive media range, compared
to a fluid media like watercolor, which is on the other end of the
spectrum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It requires varied levels of
pressure to make marks on the page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pencil tends to facilitate more cognitive processing rather than
emotional or affective therapeutic work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Using pencil can assist a client with problem solving, organizing
thoughts, focusing on detail and containing emotion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I currently see
children, adolescents and women in my private practice, ArtLight Therapy &
Studios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My work at the studio also
includes free-lance illustration and fine art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My part-time counseling position with Hospice & Palliative Care of
Western Colorado, where I have worked for twelve years, provides many
opportunities for working with kids and teens using art directives like: ‘Draw
your family doing something together.’<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s2">The subjects that capture my interest are often nature-based and symbolic of my personal insights and discoveries! </span><span class="s2">Nature – based images connect us to its</span><span class="s2">powerful </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=643211072146968565" name="_GoBack"></a><span class="s2">healing qualities. </span><span class="s2">The mandala (circular form) is containing and healing; its shape conveys wholeness and facilitates our ability to be centered.</span><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s2">I</span><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s2">am deeply interested in the healing aspects of art making and its inherent communicative and transformational qualities.</span></span></div>
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I've only had a deep and direct eye contact with a Blue Heron once. It was shortly after Mom died and I was spending a lot of time walking along the Colorado Riverfront Trail. I was near the bend where I had recently tossed half a bouquet of flowers into the river as a small memorial to Mom. I took the other half of the flowers home to place in a vase on my kitchen table. <br />
Listening to the river that day, I looked to my left to see a Great Blue Heron standing tall and confident by the river's edge. She turned her head and looked at me- a direct, assured acknowledgement of my loss. In one look there was a serene confidence expressed before she lifted off in magnificent flight, soaring down- river. It was unmistakable- she knew and told me so.<br />
I think of that moment- of clarity as deep knowing conveyed without words from another creature. I'm reminded of it on days like these when bike rides along the riverfront trail and walks at Connected Lakes serve up more heron encounters than I have known before. And then on my last day of school at the community college, one flew right over my car as I turned left toward the college, meeting at the corner. Yes, one could say its a boon year for herons, but, I always know its a sign from her- a small note of knowing, a reminder of presence.<br />
Herons represent diversity just by their ability to move through elements. A kind of liminal quality is assigned to them as they move from earth to land to water. Herons have the ability make these transitions and maintain stability. They speak of transition...and what is death if it isn't the great transition.<br />
According to Native Traditions, herons represent self- determination, self- reliance. They have the ability to progress and evolve. They symbolize standing on their own They may sit while the rest of us lose patience. Individuals who have the characteristics of Blue Heron need to follow their heart rather than the prompting of others. <br />
If that doesn't describe me, I don't know what does.Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643211072146968565.post-65423195722284832152014-09-04T08:21:00.000-07:002014-09-04T19:05:59.330-07:00Teen Retreat 2014<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> Each year I am amazed
by the courage and creativity of the teens that participate in Camp Good Grief Teen
Retreat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year all seven of them
came ready to work, tell their story and support others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The comfortable and intimate setting on the
Mesa allowed the teens to appreciate the beauty of nature and provided a
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are grieving. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They need their grief to
be acknowledged by the larger community, by the adults around them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They need to be able to communicate in their
own unique voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Since peer relationships are very important to teens,
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teens attending retreat are usually open to working in a unique and creative
way to cope with and commemorate their losses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With a little encouragement, they used drumming, art-making, writing and
working with horses to learn about grief, coping and to explore compassion and
empathy.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Participants
were invited to represent aspects of self by altering or redesigning an
everyday object – a matchbox.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through
the creative process, they explored symbols and words that transformed their
box into a pocket shrine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One theme,
“Keep the Change”, included coins decorated to represent a change in them since
the loss which they wanted to keep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
process of altering the box allowed the teens to explore ideas and feelings on
a concrete and tangible level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Working
with a variety of materials allowed them to access the sensory level where we
store traumatic experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They used
their boxes to share about experiences with grief and empathy as well as
support and compassion. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Often
teens can use the experience of a creating art to learn larger life lessons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each teen used writing to express a tribute
to their special person or to list five words that describe them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rushing water of the creek and the tall
aspens overhead provided an inspiring backdrop as several shared a poem or
letter as they lit a candle in a simple memorial the teens designed for
closing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> When
we give teens the opportunity to approach and work through their grief
expressively, we allow them to work on a level that makes sense to them. We
acknowledge and support their grief in a way that can be understood on many
levels and can be witnessed by others.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Riley, S.
(1999).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Contemporary Art Therapy with
Adolescents</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>London, Jessica
Kingsley<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">For more information on art therapy visit:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">American Art
Therapy Association at </span><a href="http://www.arttherapy.org/"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.arttherapy.org</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Art Therapy
association of Colorado at </span><a href="http://www.arttherapy-co.org/ataco"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.arttherapy-co.org/ataco</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">ArtLight
Therapy & Studios at </span><a href="http://www.artlighttherapyandstudios.com/"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.artlighttherapyandstudios.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“A meeting of the
world inside and the world outside” is how art therapy pioneer Eleanor Ulman
described her profession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art therapy is
a way of looking to and through experiences using imagery and the creative
process to find healing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It brings our
internal experiences into the light.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art therapists
complete a master’s level training and education in psychology, human
development and visual arts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They use
art in assessment and treatment in many settings including private practice and
open studios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many formal elements of
drawings provide developmental, emotional and cognitive information to the
trained therapist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The creative process
can access places in our brain that verbal processing alone may not be able to
reach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art making has always been a part of my
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In early childhood, I loved to
draw, often focusing on pictures of animals or nature scenes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mom once sent me to a day workshop for
artists at the Denver Zoo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was the
youngest “student” that memorable day of sketching giraffes, monkeys and bears!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This early
pleasure in art lead to many hours of drawing, painting and looking at other
artist’s work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The process of
illustrating and creating provided comfort and ‘companionship’ through both
normal life transitions and the difficult experiences of moving, changing
friendships, the divorce of my parents, illness and loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At high school graduation, I was awarded two
small scholarships to study commercial art at West Texas A & M.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I added undergraduate psychology courses that
piqued my interest in that profession as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ultimately, I decided to complete my bachelor’s degree in Social
Work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This led to a part-time position
at a state psycho-social rehabilitation center for chronically mentally ill
adults where I offered drawing and painting classes as well as life skills
training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About this time, my interest
in art therapy developed; I remember sending off a request for more information
to the American Art Therapy Association.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The profession seemed like a beautiful partnering of my interests in
psychology and art and my desire to help others- to somehow address the
suffering I could see among this exquisitely beautiful world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, in the fall of 2004 I began my graduate
work in art therapy, traveling to Indiana three times a year to complete
graduate residencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In January 2008, I
graduated from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College with a Master of Arts in Art
Therapy and obtained my license as a professional counselor in 2012.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art making is the
central focus of my counseling work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
images are forms of communication; they are meaningful responses to the world
around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are expressions that go
beyond words and often show us things about our circumstances and ourselves
that words are not able to articulate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Making art enhances perceptual acuity, increases cognitive functioning,
allows integration of the senses and activates our creative center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of these aspects are therapeutic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colored pencils
are a wonderful media to use in therapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are portable, anyone can use them and sometimes they are needed as
an expressive tool that allows colorful, emotional response that is easily
controlled. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In terms of the Media
Properties Continuum, colored pencil is in the resistive media range, compared
to a fluid media like watercolor, which is on the other end of the
spectrum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It requires varied levels of
pressure to make marks on the page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pencil tends to facilitate more cognitive processing rather than
emotional or affective therapeutic work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Using pencil can assist a client with problem solving, organizing
thoughts, focusing on detail and containing emotion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I currently see
children, adolescents and women in my private practice, ArtLight Therapy &
Studios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My work at the studio also
includes free-lance illustration and fine art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My part-time counseling position with Hospice & Palliative Care of
Western Colorado, where I have worked for twelve years, provides many
opportunities for working with kids and teens using art directives like draw
your family doing something together.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Clay-work is the sensual process of manipulating, forming and sculpting clay as well as the products or creative objects composed by the process. Clay has been used throughout history by may cultures as containing tools and as an expression of the religious or even spiritual dimensions of life. As we have, over time, "attributed significance to the earth as the source of all things" (p.66) the use of clay to connect with reactions to a loss seems to link us to the essential life force and ending, or resting place of our loved ones. Sholt and Gavron (2006) identify the "link between symbolic clay products and the mental-spiritual realm of humankind early in human history (p.66)."</div>
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Using <em>Jungle Journey</em> (Traverse Publishing Co.) by my friend and fellow art therapist, Barbara McIntyre, has been an amazing way to work with kids who are learning coping skills after a loss. In this poignant story about a community of jungle animals, Eleanor the elephant dies leaving her friends to figure out how to move forward without her and how to make meaning out of their loss. Each animal responds to the news of her death in a unique way showing a variety of coping reactions. The story goes on to illustrate how each animal offers a contribution to the community in Eleanor's absence and memory.<br />
After reading the story each member of the group is asked to sculpt the animal they most identify with in the story or the animal who has the most appeal to them. We then take time to observe the sculptures and share the characteristics of the animal chosen and why. As the small sculptures are formed each child relates in clay their ideas about how to cope or what aspect of the animal they admire. Creating the character 'in hand' integrates the ideas in a way that is sensory based and therefore memorable.<br />
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Gavron, T. & Sholt, M. (2006). Therapeutic Qualities of Clay-work in Art Therapy and Psychotherapy: A Review. <i>Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 23</i>(2) pp. 66-72.<br />
Image source: artforsmallhands.com<br />
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<span style="font-family: Noteworthy-Light; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">I love working with teens. One of my co-workers describes reeling in adolescents for support as " herding cats". She should know as she has several at home- cats, that is. Sometimes we are so 'lucky' to get to work with teens for any period of time, so short-term or solution-focused therapies are of the essence. Using art in my practice is a sure way to build rapport and relationship. Art therapy has many aspects that are in harmony with short-term treatment according to Shirley Riley who wrote Contemporary Art Therapy with Adolescents (1999). Art therapy is action oriented and shared by the client and clinician. So many sessions with teens are enhanced by working together or alongside one another creating. This activity adds a whole dimension to our work together. Art making is a pleasurable activity and often teens can approach a problem in a process that suggests new solutions. We are often able to extract a limited issue from the larger picture, literally and figuratively. The problem is naturally externalized and viewing the problem from the distance of the artwork, acknowledges that our self is separate than the problem. As teens create art over multiple sessions, they can begin to see their progress illustrated in their work. Having a visual record of their progress helps the teen and therapist focus on goals that are such an integral and </span><span style="font-family: Noteworthy-Light;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">necessary aspect of short-term therapy. Teens are challenging to engage and to keep in a sustained therapeutic environment, so they benefit from a solution-focused, goal oriented, creative approach- bring on the art!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> Through engaging in the creative process,
grieving children, teens and families can begin to make meaning out of their
loss and enter into a process of healing and transformation. Making art helps individuals both express and
contain the complex and sometimes overwhelming emotions of grief. Visual expression can help in exploring and
understanding grief in a way not limited by words. It provides a way of communicating that can
often more fully express the complexities of a loss. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">The benefits of the use of art in
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the grief process & promotes coping skills<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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organize & regain sense of containment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cathartic effect and kinesthetic release<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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product and permanence (Hill, M. 2003)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">Gladding, S. & Newsome, D.</span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">(2003). Art in counseling. In C. Malchiodi
(Ed.), </span><i style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">Handbook of art therapy</i><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">(pp. 243-253). New York, NY: The Guilford
Press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> Hill, M. ( 2003). Healing grief through
art: Art therapy bereavement group workshops.
Obtained from <a href="http://drawntogether.com/healing.htm"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://drawntogether.com/healing.htm</span></a>
8/26/2003.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Using altered books with bereaved teens has proven to be a beautiful format for telling the stories of their loved ones and their own journey through loss - their chapters of grief, coping, and memories. An article I read recently by Gioia Chilton was an amazing description and explanation about this powerful art therapy intervention.</div>
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Books have structure and literal boundaries, cover to cover . They have a defined beginning and ending conveying containment, a necessary aspect to therapeutic work. Books are portable; they can be carried around and worked on in many settings. An adolescent artist can focus on a section at a time.<br />
and altered books are adaptable to varied levels of artistic skill.<br />
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When we work with books, we are working with an object rich in symbolism associated with knowledge and learning. Books as objects, in general, are respected and honored. Care is taken in their keeping and shelving. A book's innate value conveys value to the teen's work. Teens are able to do some healthy and safe authority testing and convention challenging through altering text. The artist is an agent of change and transformation, altering the status quo through the respected object.<br />
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The adolescent is consumed, if unconsciously, by a process of identity exploration. The book provides a format for transformation from uniform to unique and conforming to creating.<br />
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Chilton wrote, "Our own core text- that blend of culture, childhood experience and inner spirit- can also be transformed by the material life presents us. The wisdom and revelation contained in the books we alter become our own... (2007, p.63)"<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Chilton, G. (2007). Altered Books in Art Therapy with Adolescents,</span><span style="text-align: center;"> <i>Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association,</i> 24 (2), pp. 59-63.</span>Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643211072146968565.post-44188790065303646222013-04-28T06:36:00.000-07:002013-04-28T06:38:05.651-07:00Self Esteem & Affirmations <br />
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This week I read a great article by L. Hartz & L. Thick in a 2005 Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association: <i>Art Therapy Strategies to Raise Self-esteem in Female Juvenile Offenders: a Comparison of Arts Psychotherapy and Art as Therapy Approaches.</i> I have been doing a little research to support the work I have done with adolescents in the corrections setting. It is widely documented that low self-esteem has a correlation to criminal behavior.<br />
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Johnson & Ferguson (1990) suggest increasing self- awareness by helping teens:<br />
- Identify personal preferences and know what those are<br />
- Create realistic appreciation of their personal strengths and weaknesses<br />
- Develop problem-solving and life skills<br />
- Learn how to access and meaningfully use social support<br />
- Set realistic goals and take steps to achieve them<br />
- Increase abilities in areas that are important to teens (Harter, 1990)<br />
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"Affirmations and visualizations are also recognized as powerful tools to improve self esteem." Hartz & Thick (2005, p. 72). Today in my grief support group at a local middle school, we focused our work on affirmations. The group members took turns reading one affirmation at a time aloud to the group. It was really touching to hear them speak this way to one another,; powerful - these healing words coming from young people who have navigated the dark places of grief and the light work of healing.<br />
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Harter, S. (1990). <i>Susan Harter: Developmental. </i>Retrieved from University of Denver Department of <br />
Psychology website:<i> </i>http://www.du/edu/psychology/people/harter.html<br />
Johnson, K. & Ferguson, T. (1990). <i>Trusting ourselves:</i> <i>The sourcebook on psychology for women. </i><br />
New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press.Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643211072146968565.post-5433821590183837132013-04-16T12:16:00.002-07:002013-04-16T19:51:29.737-07:00Art with TeensBruce Moon called art making "the natural language of adolescents" (p. 175).<br />
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He stated, "in my work...with adolescents...who have been hurt, betrayed, rejected, failed, disappointed ...or abused...most of them were not especially interested in, or capable of insight-oriented verbal psychotherapy with an adult authority figure, but nearly all of them were willing to make art. The great majority who did experienced the ...process as a potent and healthy means of self-expression, self-exploration, and self-revelation (p.5).<br />
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This is my experience too. It's a wonderful way of working and I cannot imagine my counseling practice without the art!<br />
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Moon, B. (1998). The dynamics of art as therapy with adolescents. Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas.Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643211072146968565.post-20686872716792529002013-03-25T12:35:00.001-07:002013-03-25T12:35:51.241-07:00It's Spring!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's Spring! Having fun experimenting with and teaching about packing tape transparencies and acrylic on canvas!Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643211072146968565.post-3586452590566933752013-01-29T08:33:00.002-08:002013-01-29T08:39:59.522-08:00Working on the website<a href="http://www.artlighttherapyandstudios.com/">artlight therapy and studios</a><br />
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The last two mornings, I have been updating the website. This is not my favorite medium but a necessary part of the "business" of art therapy. Enjoy!Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643211072146968565.post-62310335023889007392012-12-14T13:30:00.002-08:002012-12-14T13:30:09.957-08:00Department of Corrections grief group<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Working with a group of grieving middle-schoolers this week, I was reminded once again of the power and unique expression of mask painting. Masks are particularly effective for teens who are building and establishing an identity.<br />
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Masks can be decorated and then hung on the wall as a way of externalizing one's false self, and as a way to dialogue with the visual image itself. The reflection on the work provides a means for clients to confront dysfunctional beliefs and to discuss emotions in terms of how they are expressed and where and with whom they are appropriate. One way to help facilitate changes in cognitions and beliefs is to ask the client to give the mask a voice and to engage it in a dialogue.<br />
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Questions that could serve as a guideline for the dialogue might be:<br />
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What is the mask disguising?<br />
What is the mask protecting?<br />
What is the mask's function or role?<br />
What feelings are present?<br />
What does the mask need?<br />
For what is it asking?<br />
Is there another mask that needs to be made?<br />
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Every mask made in our group this week was uniquely expressive and provided a rich and meaningful way to process the experience of loss and to cope with changing ideas and feelings of bereavement.Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-643211072146968565.post-35647450413193957202012-09-18T10:37:00.003-07:002013-01-11T11:17:35.515-08:00Camp Good Grief Teen Retreat<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 200%;">As Teen Retreat approaches again this year, we are thinking
through and planning creative, meaningful interventions for the weekend.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 200%;">The
teens are usually open to working in a unique and creative way to cope with and
commemorate their losses.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 200%;">With a little
encouragement, they are willing to use a creative approach during this
meaningful, inspiring weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The creative process itself is healing and
encourages a sense of integrity and autonomy.
For adolescents, finding autonomy and establishing identity are major
developmental tasks. Art making provides
a “hands-on” exploration that supports the development of emerging positive identity. Particularly,
when teens lose a loved one, this task of establishing identity is
challenged. When they lose a parent, it can
become complicated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> It
is difficult for me to imagine doing grief support work without art
making. Many of our experiences in loss
are beyond words; they are difficult to describe or express verbally. Art–making is meta-verbal; it gives teens a
different kind of voice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Art therapy is a form of communication
that is accepted by adolescents. Riley
(1999) related that it is successful for many reasons. The teen is in greater control of their
communication; non-verbal communication is often more comfortable than putting
ambivalent feelings to words. The
pleasure and newness of the activity and “speaking in their own voice” often
reduces resistance to the therapeutic process.
Adolescence is a time of
rapid change and artwork provides assessment and clarification of developmental
stages. The teen’s changes are often
mirrored through their imagery. When
creating art, teens can problem solve “through the advantage of externalizing
problems and taking a fresh view of them from a distance” (p.144). Teens
can experiment with a change symbolically on a creative project, before they
make real–life changes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> In short, using art therapy these
adolescents are able to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Learn to utilize art making for
exploration and expression of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Increase knowledge of specific
collage, painting and drawing techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Establish supportive peer
relationships in a safe and creative atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Explore issues surrounding their
loss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Create commemorative pieces that
can be used as linking objects to their loved ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Typical art directives in adolescent bereavement
groups may include: collage work to illustrate the story of their loved one,
creating a coat-of-arms to introduce themselves and their loved one to the
group, or mask painting for identity exploration, externalizing the false self
or to facilitate expression of feelings related to grief. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> An art–based intervention we will be using
at Teen Retreat this year is an altered shoe project. Participants will be invited to represent aspects
of self by redesigning an everyday object – the shoe. Through the creative process, we will explore
the values and/or ideals of empathy and compassion for others by expressing responses
to the phrases: ” walk in my shoes…” and ”…if I was in your shoes”. The process of altering the shoe allows the
teens to explore altered beliefs on a concrete and tangible level. They can work on a sensory level with
materials; they can process symbolically their experiences with grief and
empathy as well as support and compassion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> The process, like many others in art
therapy, enhances perceptual acuity, sharpens cognitive skills, and facilitates
sensory integration. It activates our
creative center. When we give teens the
opportunity to approach and work through their grief expressively, we allow
them to work on a level that makes sense to them. We acknowledge and support their grief in a
way that can be understood on many levels and can be witnessed by others. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Riley, S.
(1999). <i>Contemporary Art Therapy with
Adolescents</i>. London, Jessica Kingsley <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Publishers.<span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> For more information on art therapy visit the
American Art Therapy Association at http://www.arttherapy.org, the Art Therapy
association of Colorado at </span><a href="http://www.arttherapy-co.org/ataco"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">http://www.arttherapy-co.org/ataco</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> or ArtLight Therapy & Studios at
http://artlighttherapyandstudios.yolasite.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Joni Beckner, MA, LPC, ATR-BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647710508578892374noreply@blogger.com0