N/NY-0111 - Mechanism of Improvement with Art Therapy During Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD
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Description
This course will discuss effects of art therapy in conjunction with Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for reduction of PTSD symptoms in combat veterans. It will inform attendees of quantitative and qualitative outcomes that demonstrate greater reduction in PTSD symptoms in those who received adjunctive art therapy compared to CPT.
Learning Objectives
- Name at least three specific art therapy directives which can be used in the treatment of PTSD with art therapy.
- Articulate which quantitative evidence that demonstrates that art therapy is a useful adjunctive therapy for PTSD.
- Name at least four benefits cited by patients with PTSD who have received art therapy.
Dr. Sarah Deaver
Sarah Deaver, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM, has been an art therapy educator, researcher, and clinician for over 30 years. Currently in private practice, she was professor in the EVMS School of Health Professions and Department of Psychiatry. She has been involved in several cross-discipline research efforts, and has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. She has served the profession of art therapy as a Director on the ATCB, Chair of the AATA Research Committee, and Director on the AATA Board. She was President of the American Art Therapy Association from 2013-2015, and represented the association at the 2017 Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network Clinical Research Summit.
Dr. Kathleen Decker
Psychiatrist
Hampton VA Medical Center
Dr. Decker is a Board-Certified psychiatrist and researcher. Her undergraduate education was completed at University of Michigan in Biochemical Genetics. She then pursued an M.D.-Ph.D. at Stanford University, and after obtaining her M.D., she remained at Stanford for internship, residency, and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Molecular Neuropsychopharmacology there. Past faculty appointments include University of Washington and Eastern Virginia Medical School. She has also practiced psychiatry as a solo private practitioner, worked for the U.S. Air Force, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
She mentored a number of graduate students in Art Therapy at Eastern Virginia Medical School. With them, and in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Deaver, she has published several articles on the use of art therapy to improve symptoms of PTSD in combat veterans. They demonstrated that adjunctive art therapy in combination with Cognitive Processing Therapy resulted in quantitative improvements in both PTSD and depression symptoms in veterans with PTSD related to combat.
Her current interests include use of fiber art therapy to reduce depression and improve socialization in those with mental illness, and in combat veterans. She has conducted a recent study on the mental health effects of both making and receiving quilts.