Full Description
This book introduces the Multiple Self-States Drawing Technique (MSSDT), a creative, transdiagnostic, clinical assessment tool and treatment intervention for child and adolescent clients. The MSSDT provides clinicians and patients with a novel opportunity to bridge the gap in youngsters' selves-awareness of discrete emotional states.
Dr. Parente teaches clinicians how to guide clients through this contemporaneous version of projective figure drawing in order to discover and explore trauma-based, dissociative, and emotionally dysregulated self-states and to focus on adaptive, resilient states of well-being. Specific, step-by-step instructions are provided, and case illustrations demonstrating the proposed clinical advantages of the method are presented. Chapters show how this experiential, psycho-educational, arts-based activity can be flexibly applied to a broad range of ages and clinical populations and how using the MSSDT may support mental health professionals' clinical work.
Through this manual, clinicians will learn how to help clients foster a beneficial relational encounter, promote therapeutic self-expression, and develop an enhanced self and other awareness.
Contents
About the Author Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Drawings—A Way of Understanding: An Introduction Chapter 2. Projective Drawing Measures in the Assessment of Children and Adolescents Chapter 3. The Multiple Self-States Model Chapter 4. Development of the Multiple Self-States Drawing Technique Chapter 5. The Multiple Self-States Drawing Technique Procedure Chapter 6. Proposed Values of the MSSDT Chapter 7. Early Childhood Case Study—Child With OCD Chapter 8. Early Adolescent Case Study—Teen With Relational Trauma History Chapter 9. Late Adolescent Case Study—College Student With Social Anxiety Summary and Conclusions References
