Creating Farewell Narratives: Videography in Life Review and Creative Arts Therapy (N/NY-GM6063)
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Nicole Wood, CCLS
Nicole Wood is a Certified Child Life Specialist (CCLS) and KidZoneTV Producer at Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, where she produces therapeutic, educational, and entertaining programming for pediatric audiences. Nicole also specializes in Video Therapy and explores videomaking as a therapeutic modality within the scope of her Child Life practice.
Lauren Smith, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, CCLS
Lauren D. Smith is a Licensed and Board Certified Creative Arts Therapist and Certified Child Life Specialist. Lauren currently practices as Senior Creative Arts Therapist and Child Life Specialist with the Lillian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute and Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Lauren's area of expertise includes working with children, adolescents and adults coping with medical crisis, illness and hospitalization, complex, developmental and psychological trauma, loss, grief and bereavement.
Lauren also serves as a member of the Pratt Institute Graduate Department of Creative Arts Therapy faculty as Practicum Coordinator, Thesis Advisor and Visiting Instructor. Lauren has published on the topics of complicated grief, bereavement, attachment theory and vicarious trauma.
Lauren supervises graduate-level art therapy interns and clinical staff within the Child Life department at Mount Sinai Hospital. Lauren has presented at local, national and international conferences on creative arts therapy trauma interventions and medical art therapy in pediatric acute care settings. Lauren holds an M.P.S. in Creative Arts Therapy and Creativity Development from Pratt Institute and an undergraduate degree in Literature and Fine Art from Skidmore College. Lauren maintains a fine arts practice and her work may be viewed at laurendanasmith.com
Clinicians from a multidisciplinary team will use case study, clinical literature, and experiential learning to explore the impact of video-based art therapy intervention for patients navigating life review and the dying process. Presenters will explore associated advantages, challenges, and unique therapeutic benefits, and will review the significance of facilitating “goodbyes.”