Cook creative arts therapy treatment protocol.pdf

Transforming Behavior

Transforming Behavior Training Parents

by Mary N. Cook, M.D. Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora

Contents

Parent Workbook Handouts

  1. Multiple Choice Test on Communication
  2. Cooperation Builders, Part 1
  3. Cooperation Builders, Part 2: The 7 Es.

About the Author

Mary N. Cook, M.D., is a Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist currently serving as the Clinical Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Additionally, she is the Medical Director of Outpatient Psychiatric Services at Children’s Hospital Colorado, as well as Medical Director of the Intensive Family Therapy Program at the University of Colorado Hospital. She is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry on faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she is deeply committed to training child psychiatry residents and other mental health trainees.

Dr. Cook specializes in working with families with children who have been diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorders. She spearheaded the development of a series of Outpatient Psychiatric Specialty Programs, as well as an Intensive Outpatient Psychiatry Program at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

Creative Arts Therapy (CAT) Treatment Protocol

Introduction

The CAT sessions were presented to families as a form of therapy that made use of materials and instruments to facilitate the expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas; families were informed that they required no previous

Goals of CAT

Module 2: Resiliency Boxes

Materials Needed:

Directive 1: Coping Boxes
After check-in, present children with a choice of several different shapes of small cardboard boxes (e.g., hearts, stars, squares). Lead the children in a demonstration of decoupage.

Encourage parents to elucidate specific positive aspects of their child’s temperament, promoting positive change, personal growth, and mastery of communication skills.

Module 3: Body Tracings for Emotion Identification

Materials Needed:

This CAT intervention allows the child to serve as the instructor. Each family collaborates to create artwork followed by a discussion to process the products.

Module 4: Name That Mood

Directive 1: Name That Mood Game
This intervention facilitates the practice of expressing and recognizing mood states. The game allows the group to hear emotions being expressed musically while facilitating a playful environment.

Module 5: Why Do They Like That Music?

Materials Needed:

The concept underlying this intervention is to provide opportunities for empathic reflection upon an individual’s song choices.

Module 8: Communication Styles and Behaviors

Materials Needed:

This intervention is structured in the form of a game that elicits spontaneous participation from group members and reduces hesitancy to play.

Module 10: Conversation with Paint

Goals:

Materials Needed:

Directive:
Children choose a family member with whom they wish to converse, nonverbally, using paint.

This comprehensive approach encompasses methods for engaging children's and parents' emotional expressions and supports therapeutic growth through structured activities.