Creative Interventions for Mental Health Professionals
CREATIVITY FOR CLINICIANS
"The mental health community has a responsibility to its clients to educate themselves on creative interventions.
It's time to responsibly train mental health professionals to be more mindful of their use of the arts and creativity."
- Azizi Marshall, Founder & CEO
CREATIVITY FOR CLINICIANS
Creativity for Clinicians is a 15-hour CEU course (offered ONLINE or LIVE) for counselors, social workers and mental health professionals with an interest in learning about or building their knowledge of creative interventions. Learn new innovative interventions to help even your most resistant clients express themselves.
Packed with non-stop action, demonstrations and ideas that will have you furiously taking notes as your clinical toolbox overflows with creative, effective interventions you can use immediately! What’s more, you’ll leave inspired to create even more!
Experience creative, interactive, hands-on training that will re-energize your work. You will gain fresh new creative arts strategies and approaches that you can use immediately to engage even your most difficult and challenging clients.
You will utilize a working case conceptualization to help us understand how we work with clients to identify what expressive interventions could be most beneficial to healing, integrating, or just becoming “unstuck.”
Helping counselors, social workers and psychologists to identify and harness creativity with the clients and communities they serve.
WHY YOU NEED THIS TRAINING
WORK WITH RESISTANCE
Get to the root cause of challenging thoughts and behavior.
BE TRAUMA INFORMED
90% of clients in public behavioral health care settings have experienced trauma.
HAVE A PLAN
Know why, how, when, and where to introduce creative interventions.
SELF EXPRESSION
Share one of the most important ways for people to connect, navigate and grow with each other.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Creative directives to help clients regulate their emotions and behaviors.
Ethical implications and clinical limitations of using creative interventions in clinical practice.
Benefits of utilizing a creative approach in assessment, diagnosis and clinical treatment of mental health disorders.
Neurobiological implications of using creative interventions among clients with various diagnoses.
COURSE FORMAT
COURSE LENGTH
Our LIVE Creativity for Clinicians course is 15 hours long, taken over 2 days. In order to best fit your needs, it may be offered all in two days or over four shorter sessions. You can also take this course ONLINE.
ACTIVITIES
Active and engaged learning helps you get involved with the material and relating what you learn to real-life applications. Role plays, discussion topics, arts-based experientials, engaging exercises, and other fun activities keep you engaged in the course and give you an opportunity to practice new skills.
ENVIRONMENT
Experience LIVE or ONLINE training options! One or two certified instructors from the Center for Creative Arts Therapy lead each course and follow a national curriculum and teaching standards, while emphasizing hope for healing. Classes usually consist of 30 people or less and are offered in a safe, respectful and comfortable learning environment.
*PLEASE NOTE: This training does NOT certify or license you as a mental health professional, psychologist, counselor, social worker or drama, art, music, art or expressive arts therapist. You will need to earn a masters degree from an accredited school of higher education, fulfill all practicum and internship requirements, and pass a national or state licensing exam (depending on your chosen profession and state licensing laws).
LIVE ZOOM
Can't make it to the Chicago area but still want to interact with other students?
Register for our once-a-year Creativity for Clinicians course at the Center for Creative Arts Therapy and attend from the comfort of your own home. You will be able to engage with other students, ask the instructor questions, and take part in the creation and sharing of multiple creative interventions.
COURSE OPTIONS
ONLINE
Take the class ANYTIME, ANYWHERE!
Through a quick and easy registration to the Creative Interventions for Mental Health Professionals course, you can start your learning experience NOW. Taught by our Founder & CEO, Azizi Marshall, you will learn over 75 creative interventions, how to tap into creativity, and tools for therapeutic safety all from the comfort of your own home.
Build your knowledge of creative interventions today!
LIVE IN PERSON
Want the FULL experience? Take a LIVE class!
Your weekend will consist of creative, interactive, hands-on training that will re-energize your work. You will gain fresh new creative arts strategies and approaches that you can use immediately to engage even your most difficult and challenging clients.
This workshop is experiential in nature. No arts experience is necessary, just an openness to try something creative.
TESTIMONIALS
Casandra Grayson
Clinical Director
Our ability to think creatively is fundamental to the work we do with our clients. With Azizi's training, I was able to tap into my creative side in order to help my clients express themselves in more effective ways.
Paramount School of the Arts
Teaching Artist Training was packed with great moments today. Azizi Marshall from Center for Creative Arts Therapy was a highlight; giving us great strategies to bring trauma-informed care into our classrooms.
Matt Mitchell
Teaching Artist
That was one of the most meaningful, effective professional development sessions I have ever attended. Thank you!
Let us inspire and guide you towards healing the world through the arts.
The Center for Creative Arts Therapy's Training Programs offer coursework in the following professional disciplines: Drama Therapy, Expressive Arts Therapy, Therapeutic Performing Arts, Theatre of the Oppressed, Creativity in Counseling and Psychodrama.
For more information on Creative Arts Therapy training programs, compassionately creative counseling services and arts-based psychotherapists in Chicago and the DuPage area, call us at (847) 477-8244, email us, or visit us at 2600 Warrenville Rd., Suite 205, Downers Grove, IL 60515