[Self-Study] Preventive Art Therapy: The Ethical Intersection of Art Therapy And Public Health (N/NY-DEI163)

Recorded On: 01/28/2025

Description:

Inclusive mental health requires non-stigmatizing, scalable, resilience-building practices. Art therapy can fill this role. This workshop will dive deep into the ethical intersection of art therapy and public health, offering practical ways art therapy theory and tools can integrate into any clinical or community setting for wide-reaching and sustainable change.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

Identify 3 ways art therapy can uniquely offset the negative impact of adverse childhood events (ACE’s) in diverse settings.
Describe 2 ethical issues and resolutions when introducing clinical theories and tools into non-clinical settings like schools, homes, or communities.
Describe 3 art therapy interventions that can be ethically integrated into any clinical or community setting for resiliency-building.

Additional Information:

This session is worth 2 CEUs and is ATCB, NBCC & LCATs eligible.

Erica Curtis

LMFT, ATR-BC

Erica Curtis is a board-certified art therapist, licensed marriage and family therapist, award-winning author, and sought-after speaker. With a private practice in San Juan Capistrano, Erica is also a core instructor for the Arts & Healing Initiative and Admissions Consultant for Loyola Marymount University’s Marriage and Family Therapy department. A trusted expert, she has been featured in over 100 media outlets, including PBS, USA Today, and Cosmo, and serves as a media ambassador for the American Art Therapy Association.

Erica’s books, The Innovative Parent, Art Therapy Activities for Kids, and Working with Anger Creatively, reflect her expertise in creative wellness, parenting, and mental health. She specializes in autism, ADHD, learning differences, and misophonia and provides consultation, supervision, and program development for organizations like The Getty Center and L’Oréal. A past president of the Southern California Art Therapy Association, Erica has received multiple honors for her contributions to the field.

Nadia F. Paredes

MA, LMFT, ATR

AATA President

Through her expressive arts programs, Nadia Paredes helps people connect with their inner creativity and empower their minds and souls. Nadia founded Nadia Paredes - Creative Studio, a bilingual resource for empowering, healing, and artistic inspiration. With expertise and training as an Art Therapist, Intuition Painting Facilitator, and Licensed Martial and Family Therapist, she creates programs for transformation, creativity, and art-making as a mindfulness practice. Nadia also works in corporate wellness as a speaker and workshop facilitator and is an Adjunct Professor and Art Therapy Supervisor at Loyola Marymount University.

Ping Ho

MA, MPH

Ping spearheaded the development of the Certificate Program in Social Emotional Arts (SEA) and the SEA Toolkit: Supportive Art, Movement, Music & Writing for Individuals or Groups in Any Setting. In addition, she co-developed and served as principal investigator for the evidence-based program, Beat the Odds®: Social and Emotional Skill Building Delivered in a Framework of Drumming.

Ping is associate editor for the Creative Arts Therapies section of the Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, and she is co-author of the 2019 National Parenting Products Award-winning book, The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art (Ohio University/Swallow Press). Ping was the founding administrator of the UCLA Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine (now the UCLA Integrative Medicine Collaborative) and UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, which led to the privilege of writing for Norman Cousins and co-writing the professional autobiography of George F. Solomon, M.D., founder of the field.

She has a BA in psychology with honors from Stanford—where she was appointed to initiate the still-thriving Health Improvement Program for faculty and staff, an MA in counseling psychology with a specialization in exercise physiology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MPH in community health sciences from UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.