N/NY-0716 - Illustrating Stories: Graphic Novel and Comics Use in Art Therapy
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Description
The use of comics and graphic novels in art therapy can tell difficult stories with or without words. They are experienced by readers and creators at multiple reading levels, and engage high levels of meaning making through the countless integrations of text to imagery.
Learning Objectives
- Identify three inherent qualities of the graphic novel or comic to assist with literacy or storytelling.
- Describe two ways comics or graphic novels are customizable and individualized to client developmental needs and goals.
- Name four ways that graphic novels and comics apply multiple levels of meaning making and value for therapeutic sessions.
Dr. Natalie Rae Carlton
Director of Graduate Art Therapy Programs
Drexel University
Natalie Rae Carlton, PhD, ATR-BC, LPCC is an art therapy educator who provides individual and group development tasks, shares resources and feedback, and remains both structured and flexible. Her overall role is to initiate and sustain engagement in the classroom through a variety of learning materials and experience. She envisions her leadership in terms of directness, empathy, diversity responsiveness, and empowerment.
Jessica Drass
Wise Mind Creations
Jessica Masino Drass, MA, ATR-BC is a PhD Student and Research Fellow at Drexel University. She was previously an art therapist at a DBT-based womens trauma partial hospital program and a high school art teacher. She also has a Masters in School Psychology and owns a community art studio, Wise Mind Creations
Rumi Clinton
Care Clinician, Alzheimer's Association
Rumi Clinton, MA, is an artist focused on sculpture, book arts, comics and illustration and has worked in adult mental health for the past 7 years. She currently works as a Care Clinician with the Alzheimer’s Association. She received her Master’s degree in Art Therapy from the School of the Art Institute. Her thesis was based on researching Comics Art Therapy as a treatment for Veterans diagnosed with PTSD
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