Creative Teletherapy Strategies & Virtual Interventions for Coping with COVID & Cultural Bias Crises

Date & Time:

Saturday November 14, 2020

9:30 AM- 5:30 PM

Location:

Virtual Lecture Available online.

Course Description

Compounding the overwhelming psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic—including loss of daily normalcy, social isolation, and significant personal safety and financial concerns, the longstanding stress and frustration of racial inequities have resulted in massive civil unrest. This extraordinary confluence of factors has ignited a powder keg of emotional and psychological reactions, dramatically increasing the manifestation of existing disorders and, unfortunately, triggering new symptomatology at rates never before seen. Now, as mental health care professionals, it’s not only incumbent on us to incorporate culturally responsive interventions into our daily work, we must also practice our care-taking and healing primarily online. Although telehealth strategies have been essential in meeting the community’s needs for infection control and physical safety, to use them effectively, clinicians must also dedicate time to explore their own biases that can inadvertently block rapport with clients, especially those of color or other communities prone to discrimination. Working with patients to build a sense of security is harder than ever before because virtual and digital mechanisms impede physical body language and the more subtle and intuitive aspects of human communications necessary to create the sense of trust necessary for treatment to be successful. This daylong Symposium will explore new ways to develop those bonds, and help arts and play therapists to learn how to meet the requirements for responsible practice. Join us to learn about exciting recent arts-based research and discover new telehealth interventions that have proven even more effective than in-person interactions! Appropriate for practitioners of all disciplines, and at all levels of expertise.

About the Instructors

Kendra Carlson, MAAT, ATR-BC, Symposium Coordinator
Christian Bellissimo, LCSW, RPT
April Duncan, LCSW, RPT
Scott Giacomucci, DSW, LCSW, BCD, FAAETS, PAT

Brian Jantz, MA, MT-BC, LPMT

Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC his the founder and director of Dancing Dialogue, a creative arts psychotherapy practice in Cold Spring, NY and NYC, specializing in parent- infant/child and family therapy; trauma; medical illness; and adult chronic pain. She is the International Medical Creative Arts Spokesperson for the Andréa Rizzo Foundation, having created and continuing to be the senior dance/movement therapist for pediatric patients at Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NYC, since 2003. She received the 2010 Marian Chace Distinguished Dance Therapist award from the ADTA. She teaches in Europe, South America, New Zealand, Israel and Asia; holds faculty positions in the USA, The Netherlands, Chech Republic, Argentina and China; offers the Ways of Seeing International Webinar Training Program for dance/movement therapists and allied professionals; has published numerous papers about her work; and her book, The Dancing Dialogue: Using the communicative power of movement with young children is used extensively in dance/movement therapy training programs internationally.

Registration

http://www.cvent.com/events/2020-expressive-therapies-summit-ny-registration-site/event-summary-dc36db3df55c400da470725d6f5fc5dc.aspx