Doll Making in the Treatment of Traumatic Loss (Ticket Required) (N/NY-GM1049)
All Day Advanced Practice Course (Requires a ticket and separate registration)
Sharon Strouse, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT
Sharon Strouse, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT. A year after her 17-year old daughter Kristin ended her own life, Strouse immersed herself in a creative collage process. It became the foundation for her book, Artful Grief: A Diary of Healing. She leads national and local art therapy workshops for survivors of loss.
Sarah Vollmann, MPS, ATR-BC, LICSW
Sarah Vollmann, MPS, ATR-BC, LICSW is a licensed clinical social worker and a board-certified art therapist. She works with adolescents at the Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge MA. Her private practice and publications focus upon grief and loss, and she presents both nationally and internationally on art therapy, grief, and bereavement.
This didactic, experiential workshop introduces doll making, effective in the treatment of traumatic loss. Case studies, anchored in Constructivist Theory of meaning making, sense making, benefit finding and Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy are presented. Participants will create a doll, a concrete transitional object, in support of relationship and continuing bonds.