2-Day: Neurodevelopmental Art Therapy: A Whole Brain Healing Approach for Acute and Chronic Trauma

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All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

Speaker

Carey MacCarthy, MA, ATR, LPCC Related seminars and products

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Carey MacCarthy, MA, ATR, LPCC voted top art therapist of the year 2024, and Who’s Who in America listee Founder/CEO of START UP! Art Therapy to Rewire Your Brain™. Carey is an author, presenter, speaker, and researcher, a Registered Art Therapist with the Art Therapy Credentials Board, and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, active within the art therapy profession since 2001. She is a recognized trauma expert specializing in trauma within children, adults, and Native American Historical Trauma.

Carey co-authored, with Linda Chapman START UP!™: A School-Based Arts Curriculum for Native American Youth and ALL Cultures: Interventions for Development and Learning, Facilitators Manual (2017). Chapman has since passed her work onto Carey to continue its expansion and global reach. Carey has lived in Native American Reservations and trained in the Red Road Approach to Healing for Tribal Nations and is a fluent Spanish speaker. Her mission is to help rebuild the First Nations People. Carey believes that healing should be accessible to ALL People of ALL Ages & ALL Cultures.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Carey MacCarthy maintains a private practice and is the founder of Start Up! Art Therapy and Indigenous Healing Arts Alliance Non-Profit Organization. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Carey MacCarthy is a member of the American Art Therapy Association and Art Therapy Credentials Board.

 

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For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.

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Objectives

1. Determine the impact of the evolution of the arts in trauma treatment.
2. Evaluate the effectiveness of a right brain approach in art therapy.
3. Determine how a right brain approach reduces trauma symptoms.
4. Differentiate the whole brain healing approach from standard art therapy practices.
5. Identify the neurobiological impacts of different types of traumas.
6. Examine how historical and intergenerational trauma affects individuals through genetic transmission.
7. Evaluate how NDAT could potentially reverse genetic markers of historical trauma.
8. Identify the connection between art, neuroscience, and the power of neuroplasticity in trauma treatment.
9. Determine how art can be used for left and right brain integration to aid in treating trauma.
10. Utilize NDAT techniques for acute trauma, including the Chapman Art Therapy Trauma Intervention (CATTI).
11. Utilize the 4-stage chronic trauma treatment curriculum to reduce trauma symptoms.
12. Determine how to use the Facilitators Manual for trauma treatment.

Outline

• How art therapy is effective in neurobiologically healing trauma
• Why a right brain approach is important in trauma treatment
• How Neurodevelopmental Art Therapy (NDAT) differs from standard art therapy
• Understand types of trauma: Acute, chronic/complex, system-induced, historical, intergenerational, racial, vicarious, development, in-utero trauma
• Long-term effects of trauma: Physical, emotional, psychological
• Impact on children, adolescents & adults

• Neurobiology of trauma
• Structural damage in the brain
• Epigenetics of trauma
  • Stored and genetically passed down through generations
  • Native American, African American, Jewish cultures, Asian, Pacific Islanders, and more
  • Treat trauma & reverse genetic markers of historical trauma

• Learn, experience, implement
• Whole brain healing approach: Bottom-up, left/right integration, top down
• Bilateral stimulation: Bilateral scribble & bilateral drawing
• NDAT acute trauma intervention for individual sessions
• NDAT chronic trauma intervention
• Proven research outcomes
• Troubleshoot issues that arise in sessions: Child, adolescent, adults
• Research, risks and limitations

• Art therapy trauma assessment protocols
• Treat trauma with step-by-step facilitators manual integrating:
  • Auditory processing
  • Meditation
  • Bilateral stimulation
  • Art activity engaging specific brain structure (NDAT)
  • Fosters coping skills, emotional release, healthy relationships, boundaries …
  • CBT, NLP, guided imagery, neuroplasticity-based approaches into NDAT
  • Verbal expression/dialogue
• Facilitators manual designed to:
  • Follow all 4 manual sections corresponding with 4 brain structures
  • Elicit positive mental states avoiding trauma reactions within group setting, classroom or behavioral health
  • Eliminate guesswork in trauma treatment

• Historical, inter-generational and racial trauma
  • Epigenetics & long-term impacts
  • Recognize symptoms
  • Address & respond within the diverse populations you serve in your practice or classroom
  • Treat historical, inter-generational and racial trauma in your practice
• Culturally responsiveness: Respect other cultural healing traditions
• Cultural compassion with Native Americans, Latinos, Black and other underserved populations

• Dissociative Identify Disorder
• D.D. female, age 27
• Aggressive, oppositional, and suicidal
• F.W. male, age 10
• Debilitating depression and anxiety
• N, male, age 30

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Educators
• Addiction Counselors