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This workbook offers diverse strengths-based tools to incorporate the Creative Mindfulness Technique (CMT) into clinical practice. It provides an essential understanding of the ethical scope of practice.
List of contents
1. Introduction Part 1 1. Art and the Process 2. Mindfulness: Being in the Moment Part 2: Applications of the Creative Mindfulness Technique 3. Application 4. Art Journaling 5. Guided Imageries 6. Tools for Safety 7. Self Reflection 8. Externalizing 9. Working with It 10. Vicarious Trauma and the Clinician
About the author
Corinna M. Costello, Ph.D., LCMHCS, ATR-BC is the director of student support and a core faculty member of clinical mental health at The Family Institute of Northwestern University. Dr. Costello also practices art therapy. She contributed chapters for The Neuroeducation Toolbox and Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. She has also written and presented extensively on PTSD, anxiety, resiliency, mindfulness, and art therapy.
Beth Ann Short LCAT, ATR-BC (they/them) is a licensed certified art therapist in Oregon and an adjunct professor in art therapy at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon and at Heritage University in Toppenish, Washington. Short authored Creative Wellness: Art Journaling with Mindfulness in 2016. Short is also a fine artist who has exhibited art both internationally and in publications.
Summary
This workbook offers diverse strengths-based tools to incorporate the Creative Mindfulness Technique (CMT) into clinical practice. It provides an essential understanding of the ethical scope of practice.
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"Creative mindfulness practices have been so valuable for taking care of myself as a mental health clinician. The creative process gets me out of my head and allows for different perspectives, problem-solving, and healing of vicarious trauma."Sara DeWitt, LPC, CADC I
"Healing from Clinical Trauma Using Creative Mindfulness Techniquesis a beautiful, creative, thoughtful, and well written work. It is highly recommended for art therapists who use mindfulness creativity in their work already or are just beginning to develop this practice for themselves."Kazz Artis, Art therapist, Artist, Mental health consultant
"In and out of calendar days and countless therapies; faced with abundant challenges in processing pain, angst & argument around abuse, reframing victimization into victories... Beth Ann's compassionate and supportive guidance through the Creative Mindfulness Technique means of art-making has been transformative. Despite statistically calculating naysayers who'd suggest mental illness outcomes grow progressively more dire with age, I embrace a more hopeful future, in large part to rediscovery, reinvention and renewed purpose founded upon practicing Creative Mindfulness."Lindsey Grant
