Professional crises: the use of art therapy techniques and methods in the system of the client’s professional development.

A one-day seminar-training for specialists of a helping profile on the topic:

Professional crises: the use of art therapy techniques and methods in the system of the client’s professional development.

(Art therapy in organizational psychology)

 

Purpose: Implementation of art-psychological forms of work in the process of professional support of the client by psychologists and methods of effective diagnostics by means of art therapy. Within the framework of the seminar, psychological aspects of support at the stage of professional self-identification, secondary self-identification will be presented, the main strategies for possible forms of manifestation of professional exhaustion and burnout will be considered. Certain mechanisms and factors of the effective impact of art therapy when working with clients at different stages of professional genesis. The seminar will present art-therapeutic technologies of professional modeling of clients’ resources using the means of creative self-expression.

Expected results

1. Structuring methodological knowledge and ideas about the use of art therapy approaches at different professional stages and periods.
2. Forms of art therapy work of a psychologist in the system of psychological assistance in crisis conditions are associated with professional exhaustion.

Forms of work: mini-lectures, art therapy forms (isotherapy techniques, work with metaphorical and thematic maps, visualizations, work with visual metaphors, fairy tale therapy, art bibliotherapy.

Thematic content of the seminar

• Acquaintance of the participants of the seminar, formation of a request from the participants
• Mini lecture “Emotional burnout as a form of professional crisis, approaches to the use of art therapy in the system of prevention and correction by art therapy methods”
• Art methods of organizational psychology in the system of overcoming psycho-emotional exhaustion
• Methods of formation of professional confidence and professional competence in the crisis period.
• Forms of overcoming the professional crisis by the methods of art therapy “Professional box”
• Art-sharing “My professiogram in pictures”

 

Materials necessary for a comfortable stay of a technician at the seminar:

 

1. Materials for fine arts
2. Box of convenient, resource sizes
3. Glue, scissors and decoration materials
4. Everything that you want to identify with the profession and implementation in it

Training trainer of the program Victoria Nazarevich Ph.D. in Psychology, Associate Professor of the Department of Developmental and Pedagogical Psychology of Rivne State University for the Humanities, trainer of educational trainings, psychologist of the highest qualification category, member of the board of the Western Ukrainian Association of Art Psychologists and Art Therapists. Additional education: specialized training – “Trainer of educational and thematic trainings”, (Kiev, 1999), training according to the training program “Methodology of youth seminars”, “Moderation” (Kiev, 2000), Isotherapy (Moscow 2011), International project Art-psychotherapy in the framework of the USP (2011).