Expert Webinar Replay: The Benefits of Art Therapy for Children with ADHD and LD [Podcast #181]
In this webinar, Stacey Nelson, LCPC, LCPAT, ATR-BC, explains how drawing, painting, and sculpting can address challenges.
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Episode Description
This alternative therapy helps a huge population of children with ADHD — not just the burgeoning da Vincis and van Goghs. Art therapy uses the processes of drawing, painting, and sculpting to address emotional challenges, develop interpersonal skills, manage behavior, reduce stress, and increase self-awareness. Children naturally communicate through art and play, and art therapy gives them a useful, nonverbal approach to building new skills. Plus parents can encourage art-making at home by working side-by-side with their children to enhance their strengths and manage behavior.
This webinar will explain:
- How art therapy actually works
- How art therapy helps a child address personal challenges through physical activity and sensory integration
- How the practice of art therapy reduces stress and increases interpersonal skills
- Strategies parents can use to make art at home with their children
- Three art projects any parent can use to bring out the best in their child
- Stories of children who have benefited from art therapy sessions
- Ideas for how school staff can encourage art making in the classroom
- What to look for when hiring an art therapist
This ADHD Experts webinar was first broadcast live on May 17, 2017.
Meet the Expert Speaker
Stacey Nelson, LCPC, LCPAT, ATR-BC, teaches in the graduate art therapy program at George Washington University. She provides art therapy to special needs students at the Kennedy Krieger School: Montgomery County Campus in Rockville, Maryland. Stacey is a member of the Maryland Art Therapy Association and the American Art Therapy Association. She received her M.A. in expressive therapies from the University of Louisville and her B.A. in studio art and psychology from Notre Dame of Maryland University. She has a post-master’s certificate in clinical community counseling from Johns Hopkins University.
