Courses & Workshops

Upcoming Workshops

2021 Spring Trauma & Attachment Conference Series
April 12 - 16, 2021
    9 AM - 4 PM EST

• Day 1, April 12, morning session
  Erik Peper: "Reduce Zoom Fatigue and Optimize Health: From Tech Stress to Tech Health"
• Day 1, April 12, afternoon session
  Jamie McHugh: "Inhabiting Ourselves: Embodying Mindfulness and Somatic Self-Care"
• Day 2, April 13
  Dr. Paul Frewen: "Technological Innovations for Psychological Interventions"
• Day 3, April 14
  Ilene Serlin, Ph.D, BC-DMT: "Trauma-Informed Dance Movement Therapy"
• Day 4, April 15:
  Jake Ernst, MSW RSW: "Finding Your Routes of Safety"
• Day 5, April 16
  Cherie Spehar: "Writing the Way Through: An Immersive Journal Therapy Experience for Working Through Trauma"

Continuing Education

USHA offers a range of continuing education courses. For information about online courses currently under development, email Dr. Ilene Serlin.

Webinars

In this webinar, an expert panel examines trauma, stress, and anxiety from humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, and psychoanalytic viewpoints. Insights include:

• Trauma as an entirely normal outcome of development
• Applying new models of the whole person in treating trauma
• Strengths/drawbacks of complex trauma treatments
• How trauma may endow people with exceptional abilities
• Tools to mindfully combat Zoom fatigue and "tech stress"
• Simple, patient-friendly ways to alleviate anxiety and panic

PRESENTERS:
Ilene Serlin, PhD, BC-DMT, APA Fellow
Carl Shubs, PhD
Richard Harvey, PhD
Elizabeth McMahon, PhD
Stanley Krippner, PhD, APA Fellow
Tamara McClintock Greenberg, PsyD
Michael Jawer, CAE

Video of the webinar

Contemplative creative practices, embodiment, and the arts have the potential to positively contribute to a culture of tolerance, understanding, nonviolence, and freedom of expression. As creative artists, embodied practitioners, researchers, artists, and movers we are reminded to work together to explore and focus on one sphere whose power and importance is often underestimated: the embodied contemplative arts. In times of conflict and political crisis, the arts hold answers to unwritten questions and weave fragments of narratives into a tapestry of tolerance.

This international webinar serves as a platform for connections and seeks to shed light and weave the presentations into a collective body of work that focuses on harnessing the healing power of the arts across the Middle East region. By sharing their own experience, participants were invited to witness the embodied tapestry and be reminded that the whole is larger than any sum of its parts.

Video of the webinar

Presented as a symposium for the American Dance Therapy Association conference in October 16, 2020, this webinar documents the work of students and faculty from the China-US Whole Person Psychotherapy Training program in Beijing. Dr. Serlin, psychologist and dance movement therapist, discusses cross-cultural issues regarding an existential/humanistic approach to embodied psychotherapy with members of the China Institute of Psychology. Grace Zhou, student in the program, presents her work with pastoral care counselors in a support group. Chloe Liu discusses a theoretical understanding of similarities between existential psychology and Chinese philosophy, and Julia Huang presents a case of working with anger issues in a movement group.

Video of the webinar

The rising tide of suffering, displacement and natural disasters calls for expanded available human services. Creative and mind-body approaches to working with trauma and PTSD can complement available services with cost-effective and humane methods. This lecture focuses on understanding how working with the body through DMT can help heal trauma, using examples from Jordan, China, and the United States.

In this webinar, Dr. Serlin gives the annual Marian Chace Foundation address of the American Dance Therapy Association meeting in 2020. Introduced by Dr. Marcia Leventhal, Dr. Serlin talks about her experience working with Syrian refugees in Jordan and her most recent project using DMT with the COVID-19 hotline in China. A training film supported by the Marian Chace Foundation to help doctors in Jordan work with Syrian refugees is also shown.

Video of the webinar

Past Courses and Workshops

Addressing Trauma, Cultivating Resilience

January 22, 2021
a special SFPA support seminar for mental health providers
presented by Dr. Lenore Walker and Dr. Ilene Serlin

Trauma, Memory, Health and Healing: Conversations

September 20, 2019
Cole Hall Auditorium, UCSF
513 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, CA 94143

• Lewis Engel, PhD, EMDR certified therapist and approved consultant, San Francisco
• Janis Phelps, PhD, professor and founder and director, center for psychedelic therapies and research, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
• Dianne Shumay, PhD, health sciences assistant professor, department of psychiatry and director, psycho-oncology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF
• Phil Wolfson, MD, director, Ketamine Research Foundation, San Rafael, CA; co-editor, The Ketamine Papers (2016)

• Wajdi Akef Fakhoury, MA, MFTA, Psychotherapist, San Francisco, CA, conducting research with refugee populations in Jordan, Syria and Turkey
• Ilene Serlin, PhD, BC-DMT, co-editor, Integrated Care for the Traumatized: A Whole-Person Approach (2019); training trauma therapists in China, Israel, Jordan and Turkey.
• Edward Machtinger, MD, professor of medicine and director, women's HIV program and center to advance trauma-informed health care (CTHC), UCSF

• Describe two non-exposure-based treatments for traumatic memories
• Describe two ways previous trauma impacts the healthcare of patients

American Psychological Association Annual Convention
Creative Arts in Psychology and Therapy

This year's APA Convention features a very special collaboration between Division 10 Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and The Arts Special Interest Programming (SIP) in Creative Arts in Psychology and Therapy, with staff from the National Endowment for the Arts. I am delighted to be part of this collaboration in conjunction with the "Psychotherapy and the Arts" special interest group (SIG) of Division 32. This collaboration is entitled "Creative Arts in Psychology and Therapy"

The creative arts feature in therapy as well as in health and wellbeing, in public policy and in education and training, to name a few applications that show the breadth and depth of creative arts in psychology and therapy. Division 10 and the NEA worked closely with specially chosen program chairs and division presidents to ensure as wide reach as possible.

You can view the complete program for the collaboration here. Please also consider joining us at 4PM on Friday, August 10, as I receive the Rollo May lifetime achievement award from Division 32.
Creative Arts in Psychology and Therapy program and Dr. Serlin's schedule of events

Healing Transgenerational Trauma

Dr. Ilene Serlin attended the 5th Annual International Conference on Trans-generational Trauma: Communal Wounds and Victim Identities in Amman, Jordan, October 26-29, 2016, where she led a movement choir for the opening ceremony, and presented at and participated in the conference. See conference flyer, conference webpage

While in Amman, she also led a training and workshop, "Healing Transgenerational Trauma with Dance Movement Therapy."

When she returned to the US, Dr. Serlin presented a talk, "Dance Therapy with Syrian Refugees," to the Association of Traumatic Stress Studies in Palo Alto, CA. She also shared her experiences using dance/movement therapy with communities in the United States that have been affected by trauma.

See her article in Psychology Today, The Power of Dance to Work with Trauma — Some events are too terrible for words

American Psychological Association Annual Convention 2014

• Opening session: The Link Between Psychology and Art. Thursday, August 7, 2014. Ilene Serlin and Jody Wager, the President-Elect of the American Dance Therapy Association, (pictured left) lead attendees in a collaborative movement choir dance. Frank Worrell, PhD, directed the APA Choir.
• Symposium: Impossible Creativity – Exploring the Far Reaches of Human Potential. Co-sponsored by APA Divisions 32 and 10. More info
• Screening and Discussion: Doctors of the Dark Side. Co-sponsored by APA Division 32 and Psychologists for Social Responsibility. More info

The International Institute for Advanced Training in Dance Movement Therapy

1. Introduction to the Art of Embodiment for Mental Health Professionals, December 7, 2013
2. Finding Your Own Voice: Integration of DMT and Psychotherapy, DMT as a Primary Therapeutic Modality Advanced Practitioners Training, December 8, 2013

Dance and Psyche: How Moving Moves Us
Part of the End-of-Life Conversations Series

Holistic Health, Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
How mind-body, whole-person educational approaches enhance clinical efficacy

• demonstrate applied psychophysiological biofeedback techniques for practitioners of psychology, including techniques relating to heart rate variability training for traumatic experiences, respiratory awareness for anxiety, neurofeedback for attentional deficits, and other techniques.
• describe the research and clinical evidence for the efficacy of therapeutic biofeedback to compliment cognitive behavioral therapy,
• discuss the field of psychoneuroimmunology as it relates to self-mastery beyond pills, and
• identify ways of finding a qualified practitioner.

The Poetics of Aging

Serlin Featured on Poetics of Caring Day at November Conference in San Francisco
"Imagine If You Looked Forward to Aging the Way a Child Looks Forward to Becoming an Adult"

A Sneak Peek into Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Psychologists

1. CAM: All your clients are doing it!
   Presenter: Margaret Horne, M.S., Loyola University Maryland
   
   Complementary and alternative medicine is the term for a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered to be part of conventional medicine. While commonly discussed together, complementary medicine is used alongside conventional medicine, while alternative medicine is used in place of conventional medicine. CAM is broken into four primary domains – mind-body, biologically-based, manipulative and body based, and energy medicine – which will each be defined and discussed in this presentation. Research estimates that at least 37% of Americans utilize some form of CAM every year, and thus is a noteworthy presence in the American health care system.
   
   CAM's development throughout world history will be presented, as well as its struggle for visibility and acceptance in Western culture. Recent medical literature asserts that the modalities that were once condemned as "quackery" because they did not originate within the Western medical model, are now effectively complementing the Western medical system and often filling a void which consumers are willing to pay out of pocket to fill. Arguments for CAM's permanent presence in Western society and the implications for psychologists will be addressed.
   
   
2. Integrative Care in the Therapeutic Realm: Ethical Considerations Regarding CAM
   Presenter: Rachel Firestone, M.A., Loyola University Maryland
   
   With the integration of CAM into ongoing mental health care and treatment, practicing psychologists must be aware of the appropriate and efficacious treatments as well as the ethical issues, which arise with such incorporation. With 37% of the general population already utilizing CAM, and with many more having expressed interest, psychologists' knowledge of and competence in integrating, possibly through a referral process, CAM into their practice have been shown to be quite powerful and effective. Integration of CAM modalities into traditional therapeutic processes brings with it many ethical issues, which must be considered. It is through the lens of the practitioner and the client, with which these concerns must be viewed.
   
   Specifically, the APA Ethics Code standards, as well as subjective practitioner and client needs and comfort levels provide the lens through which ethical concerns are addressed. Ethical concerns relating to competence, cultural factors, referral protocols and processes, confidentiality, payment and fees, informed consent, and boundaries relating to multiple relationships within the psychotherapy relationship are addressed as relevant to integrating CAM into ongoing psychotherapy with clients. Given that the standards of the APA Ethics Code may be subject to subjective interpretation, a variety of ethical decision-making models are reviewed that may assist practitioners in their decisions regarding the integration of CAM into ongoing psychotherapy.
   
   Ultimately, practitioners are responsible for providing the most comprehensive, ethical care possible, and therefore, must be knowledgeable about and capable of knowing when to integrate CAM into their practices by providing CAM services directly, when to refer clients to appropriately trained CAM practitioners to augment the psychotherapy they provide, and when the use of particular CAM modalities might not be in a client's best interests. Strategies for addressing each of these situations are addressed in this presentation.
   
   
3. Isn't Alternative Medicine Just Yoga and Meditation?
   Presenter: Allison Shale, M.S., Loyola University Maryland
   
   This presentation will be used as a way of introducing mental health professionals to a verity of modalities that are considered to be forms of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). It will address a variety of topics regarding the 14 most commonly used CAM modalities: 1) Dietary Supplements; 2) Meditation; 3) Yoga; 4) Acupuncture; 5) Massage Therapy; 6) Music Therapy; 7) Hypnosis; 8) Reiki; 9) Progressive Muscle Relation; 10) Movement Therapy; 11) Aromatherapy; 12) Biofeedback; 13) Chiropractic; and 14) Spirituality and Prayer. With so many different modalities being addressed, the aim of the presentation will be to emphasize just how many CAM techniques exist while raising awareness related to the fact that our clients may be utilizing some of them in addition to more traditional psychotherapy.
   
   The presentation will include a brief background on each technique with specific information about its history as well as the symptoms and disorders that are commonly treated using each modality. Further, we will discuss the specific training and qualifications that are required for mental health professionals to be considered competent in each area. With that, information will be provided regarding how and when to make appropriate referrals when considering CAM. Further, there will be lists of additional resources on each of the techniques as we imagine that the presentation will surely pique psychologists' interest and leave them wanting more information on CAM! Ultimately though, the presentation will serve as a brief overview of the most popular, and widely used forms of CAM with an emphasis being put on their increasing utility among many of our clients.

ADTA Dance/Movement Mini-Conference

Dance, Movement & Humanistic Therapy

Engaging the Other: the Power of Compassion

2009 CALIFORNIA PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONVENTION

• Beckner, Victoria, Integrating Post-Traumatic Growth Strategies into Treatments for PTSD
• Harvey, Richard, Linking Spirituality and Resilience: Implications for Whole Person Practices
• Gubkin, Rut, Personal Reflections and Clinical Implications of the Impact of Traumatic Events and Resilience

Creative Arts Therapies Approaches to Working with Conflict and Trauma
Academic Conference in Israel

2008 EXISTENTIAL HUMANISTIC INSTITUTE ANNUAL CONFERENCE

2008 APA CONVENTION

1. Humanistic Psychology and Whole Person Approaches to Working with Trauma
   Chair: Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D, BC-DMT,
   Presenters: Stanley Krippner, Ph.D, Debbie Joffe Ellis, Ph.D
   
   Trauma profoundly affects the physiology of the body, as well as cognition and speech, yet most psychological approaches are verbal. This workshop will identify whole person approaches to trauma that address psychological, physical and spiritual aspects of loss and healing and demonstrate its roots in humanistic psychology.
   
   Emerging mind/body approaches that will be discussed in this paper are: Breathwork, relaxation, healthy lifestyle, meditation, writing, imagery, healing rituals, making sense of trauma (existential/humanistic), drama therapy, dance therapy, religious/spiritual faith and group therapy.
   
   Examples using whole person approaches were provided from US and Israeli veterans. In each of these programs, the treatment goals included:
   
   • Bringing together the split body/mind that occurs with dehumanizing terror,
     
   • Finding meaning and purpose in disaster,
     
   • Providing a creative means for discharging aggression and restoring interpersonal connections,
     
   • Strengthening individual and community resilience,
     
   • Expressing and containing strong emotions like aggression and horror in a safe container,
     
   Allowing creativity to symbolize traumatic losses and hopes for the future.
   
   Mind/body approaches are cost-effective, humane, and non-invasive ways to work with individuals and groups that can be built into clinical treatment and training programs. Culturally sensitive, they can restore interpersonal connections in times of rapidly changing global identities and losses.

   Part I: Whole Person Healthcare and Roots in Humanistic Psychology (Ilene Serlin)
   Part II: The Wounded U.S. Warrior: From Soldier's Heart to PTSD (Stanley Krippner)
   Part III: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy for Trauma Treatment - Healing Heart and Mind (Debbie Ellis)
   

2. Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: New Horizons of Practice
   This panel focused on exhibiting a diversity of practices within the existential-integrative (EI) therapeutic model developed in Schneider's recent edited book "Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: Guideposts to the Core of Practice" (Routledge, 2008). Dr. Serlin spoke on EI and Kinesthetic Imagining.
   
   
3. New Works in Humanistic Psychology: Meet the Authors
   Dr. Serlin was an author in attendance.
   
   
4. Humanizing an Inhumane World: Expression in the Service of Humanity Through the Arts
   Moderated by Dr. Serlin and co-sponsored by Lesley University and Div. 32: Psychotherapy and the Arts.
   
   Throughout history the arts have been used to engage and transform the most irresolvable conflicts and deepest pains. When all logical attempts to resolve individual and social problems have failed, the arts have reliably offered ways of expressing and re-visioning our struggles and shaping them into positive affirmations of life.
   
   Faculty from Lesley University presented transformative aesthetic and psychological approaches to working with conflict through the arts. The panel was moderated by Ilene Serlin, reflecting the relationship between this approach and the humanistic tradition.
   
   
5. Healing and Feeling -- Stress, Support and Cancer
   Dr. Serlin talked on Arts Medicine.

2007 APA CONVENTION

At the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco on August 18, 2007, Dr. Serlin chaired the panel on integrative healthcare for the whole person.

Mind/body therapies offer an exciting new healthcare frontier, addressing the complex interaction of mental, physical and spiritual dimensions of health and illness. Beginning with the introduction of the word “health” into the mission statement of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2001, an APA “Health Care for the Whole Person” Task Force in 2004 under the leadership of APA’s president Ron Levant, Tool Kits being introduced in the Practice Directorate, and a Task Force on Whole Person psychology under Laura Barbanel of Division 42 in 2006, the Whole Person approach to health care in psychology is beginning to gather evidence of the effectiveness and best practices of integrative collaborative care.

Whole Person Healthcare integrates the best evidence/based integrative therapies into a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model. The Whole Person approach considers the person in the context of his or her world, seeking to understand the meaning of symptoms, as well as their biological and behavioral causes. Learning Whole Person approaches is important for psychologists because the public and patients are already looking for quality professionals who can provide them.

Whole Person approaches to health deal with the whole person in his or her setting, rather than reducing illness to isolated disease entities or body parts. This panel is designed to introduce the healthcare professional into different areas of Whole Person health care, and provide a comprehensive overview of the field. It is transdisciplinary, drawing from practitioners and programs from psychology, medicine, clergy, public policy, and the arts. It lays a foundation of definitions and practices of integrative health care for the 21st century. It helps practitioners develop protocols and assess efficacy of alternative practices, emphasizes the relevance of integrative health care for the marginalized population, and discusses risk prevention, policy and issues of patient protection.

A Whole Person approach to health care also focuses on issues of meaning in illness, the role of spirituality, health and mental health, chaplaincy and pastoral care, and research and practice in yoga, meditation, imagery, QiGong, prayer, ritual, and death and dying. Finally, a Whole Person approach introduces the practitioner to the history and practices of art and health care throughout the ages. It presents the history of art and health in ancient healing rituals, shows the relevance of rituals in the growing number of international contemporary Art in Health programs, and discusses applications of art, music, dance, drama and poetry therapy programs at the bedside, in groups, and in cross-cultural conflict.

The Year of the Whole Person provides a timely window for a much-needed collaboration among health care professionals. This collaboration can bring together the best practices from the science and art of psychology and medicine for a comprehensive treatment approach. The current unsustainable healthcare system urgently needs a more efficient utilization of services; the underserved patients are demanding that their healthcare professionals talk to each and coordinate quality traditional and complementary practices, and healthcare professionals can rediscover their modern yet ancient roles as healers of the mind, body, and spirit.

1. Tool Kits for the Whole Person, Russ Newman, Ph.D, JD, Director, APA Practice Directorate

   Health care practices are expanding from traditional medical settings into new areas such as rehabilitation, wellness programs, and community education, offering practitioners new opportunities and challenges. These developments are consistent with a variety of recent trends within psychology, such as the addition of the word “health” into the mission statement of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2001, and the “Year of the Whole Person ” (Serlin, 2001-2). An APA “Health Care for the Whole Person” Task Force in 2004, under the leadership of APA’s president Ron Levant, gathered evidence of the effectiveness and best practices of integrative collaborative care, and a Task Force on Health Care was organized by Division 42 in 2006 under President Laura Barbanel.

   The Practice Directorate of the APA has begun to integrate new attention to areas of psychology like resiliency, positive psychology, coaching and wellness to teach practitioners how to bring these Whole Person approaches into their own practices. While some psychologists will choose to affiliate with medical settings and work on healthcare teams, others may want to bring integrative practices into their own private offices. This presentation will discuss efforts currently underway to address the crisis in healthcare by building on trends in Whole Person approaches and making these Tool Kits available to APA’s practitioners.

2. Integrative Healthcare at Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, David Spiegel, MD, Medical Director

   Health care practices are expanding from traditional medical settings into new areas such as rehabilitation, wellness programs, and community education, offering practitioners new opportunities and challenges. These developments are consistent with a variety of recent trends within psychology, such as the addition of the word “health” into the mission statement of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2001, and the “Year of the Whole Person ” (Serlin, 2001-2). The Practice Directorate of the APA has begun to integrate new attention to areas of psychology like resiliency, positive psychology, coaching and wellness to teach practitioners how to bring these Whole Person approaches into their own practices. An APA “Health Care for the Whole Person” Task Force in 2004, under the leadership of APA’s president Ron Levant, gathered evidence of the effectiveness and best practices of integrative collaborative care, and a Task Force on Health Care was organized by Division 42 in 2006 under President Laura Barbanel.

   This presentation describes the program at the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center as a model for biobehavioral and medical healthcare professional collaboration.

3. Envisioning Healthcare for the 21st Century, Pat De Leon, Ph.D, Past-President APA

   Mind/body therapies offer an exciting new health care frontier. This series introduces the public, health care professionals, and students to this future. Mind/body therapies address the complex interaction of mental, physical, and spiritual dimensions of health and illness. Because these therapies deal with the whole person in his or her setting, rather than in terms of isolated disease entities or body parts, this integrative approach is being referred to as “Whole Person Health Care.” Each volume of this series demonstrates the application of mind/body therapies in a variety of contexts, showing their relevance across a wide range of settings and disciplines. Health care practices are expanding from traditional medical settings into new areas such as rehabilitation, wellness programs, and community education, offering practitioners new opportunities and challenges.

   This presentation will focus on a policy perspective on healthcare in the 21st Century, as well as the place of psychology in an integrative model.

4. Treating the Whole Person, Marie A. DiCowden, Ph.D

   This presentation will focus on a model that combines physical, psychological and spiritual protocols in rehabilitation and overall healthcare. Based upon the Biscayne Institutes of Health & Living, Inc., a HealthCare Community©, the philosophical basis for combining traditional medical and psychological approaches with complementary approaches will be presented. The HealthCare Community© model, which has been providing services for over 17 years will be used to illustrate both the administrative and clinical feasibility for providing an integrative approach to healthcare. The historical basis for this combined approach will be reviewed. Protocols for pediatric and adult patients with both emotional and physical disabilities will be presented.

   Research data, as well as case illustrations of protocols, will demonstrate the method and efficacy of combining traditional rehabilitation with non-traditional approaches. Traditional methods include neuropsychological and psychological assessment and treatment, along with speech, physical and occupational therapy, applied in currently accepted healthcare delivery. Non-traditional treatments include the application of visual and music arts to the healing process; the use of music and drumming to change brain waves of neurologically impaired individuals; relaxation exercises and acupuncture in combined protocols to address pain management; mind awakening exercises, e.g., yoga, visualization, and “journeying” in treatment of disabled children; and mindfulness meditation used to address physical and psychological impairments for both adults and children.

   An overview of how this model can be adapted for other institutions and private practice will be addressed.

5. Spirituality and Health, Bruce Feldstein, MD

   There is strong evidence in the medical literature of the relationship between spirituality and health and the importance of spiritual care (Anandarajah and Hight, 2001, January 2). As a result of illness or trauma and its treatment, including hospitalization, patients, families as well as healthcare providers will encounter various degrees of suffering such as alienation, anger, anxiety, guilt, indecision, turmoil, intrusiveness, anguish, questioning, hopelessness, confusion, fear, and grief (Katonah, 1985). They can also experience profound blessing, awe, appreciation, gratitude, a sense of connection and belonging, vision, meaning and inspiration.

   Spiritual care involves recognizing and responding to these multiple expressions of spirituality. Spiritual care is everyone’s job—the patient, their family and friends, members of the health care team, as well as chaplains and clergy (Mohrmann, 1995). There are many crucial moments in healthcare that call for a spiritual presence and response—a listening ear, a gentle touch, a compassionate word and sometimes a blessing or prayer. So often the physician or nurse or other health care provider is the one who is available. It is not only appropriate but sometimes necessary for them to provide a spiritual response (Feldstein, 2001). And yet, while spiritual care may be everyone’s job, it is not everyone’s primary role. Furthermore, physicians, nurses and healthcare workers can themselves be overwhelmed and unprepared to respond to these needs.

   In the healthcare setting, it is the primary role of the healthcare chaplain to provide for the spiritual care of patients, families and staff. This presentation will demonstrate the role of the chaplain who works closely with others in a health care team to provide integrative treatment in a clinical setting.

6. Imagery: Multiple Modalities, Kirwan Rockefeller, Ph.D

   Imagery has its roots in ancient philosophical and spiritual practice. However, imagery has become a central part of preventive and traditional Western medicine in the past 20 years. Psychologists can be trained in basic imagery techniques and applications. And more and more therapists are employing such approaches. Research has demonstrated the efficacy of imagery, especially in the treatment and rehabilitation of cancer patients.

   Since imagery is verbal, visual and kinesthetic, this presentation will introduce the audience to the theory, clinical case examples and hands-on training in multi-modal approaches to imagery.

   The first section of this presentation will present theories of multiple intelligence as well as research and case examples of verbal, visual and kinesthetic images. The second section will demonstrate Tool Kits that teach clinical applications of multi-modal approaches to imagery using case studies and experiential training.

   Overall, this presentation will give participants an opportunity to experience innovative clinical skills that build upon psychologists’ role as agents of social change. The focus of non-traditional approaches, e.g. imagery, will be discussed in improving the lives of the disenfranchised; contributing to healthy communities through prevention and treatment; illustrating an emerging role of psychologists in combining mental health and healthcare; demonstrating best practices in education and training; developing specific strategies for working with diverse populations; and showing the many roles of culture and the arts in psychology and rehabilitation.

7. Art and Health, John Graham-Pole, MD

   The quickly expanding field of arts medicine and the arts therapies is finding an essential place in three major areas of modern Western healthcare: (a) Clinical: the care of patients and their families; (b) Education of both professional and non-professional groups; and (c) Research into the efficacy of the arts and arts therapies as healing modalities. In this presentation I will briefly describe each of these, including a review of the expressive arts therapies as one aspect of mind-body medicine, a review of the history and scientific rationale of this evolving discipline, and a comprehensive coverage of world trends in the arts medicine field. Specific sections are also devoted to the visual arts, music, dance, drama and poetry therapies respectively, each seen from clinical, educational, and research perspectives.

   Clinical: The most conspicuous aspect of healing art is its contribution to the aesthetic quality of physical healthcare environments, through architecture, signage, and installations of art and sculpture. Of even more significance, however, are the clinical practices of artists and expressive arts therapists at the hospital bedside and other health settings, which make use of a constellation of arts media (McNiff, 1992; Samuels and Lane, 1998; Graham-Pole, 2000). Artists thrive on a kind of deconstruction and reconstruction of chaos, allowing them to bring to their work in healthcare a certain fearlessness in the face of the kind of chaos that every seriously ill person’s life has become. Educational: The arts are being used to educate all students of healthcare, for example, through medical humanities programs (Charon and Montello, 2002), which have become widespread in medical and nursing training, and incorporate the literary, visual, musical and dramatic arts. Educational courses in the healing arts are also attracting the attention of a wide diversity of healthcare and related professionals. Research: A growing body of research related to arts medicine, both quantitative and qualitative in scope, has emerged over the past fifty years. The science of creativity and health that underlies all assessment of art as therapy is reviewed.

2006 APA CONVENTION

1. Shaping Post 9/11 Dialogue: Task Force Assessments and Comments -- sponsored by APA Division 48, Peace Psychology.
   
   This symposium engages the study of violence and aggression as related to terrorism, in relation to Western disillusionment.
   
   
2. Health & Living: Life After Rehabilitation -- sponsored by APA Division 22, Rehabilitation Psychology.
   
   Rehabilitation is often narrowly defined as the formal application of professional treatment provided within a structured inpatient or outpatient setting. However, The National Institute of Health Consensus Report on Traumatic Brain Injury (1998) indicated almost 10 years ago that in some cases "rehabilitation can be lifelong." This can also be true for individuals needing rehabilitation for other traumas and/or chronic illness.
   
   On-going quality of life for persons with disabilities has long been discussed in rehabilitation circles. Now a new paradigm is emerging that defines healthy functioning and quality of life on a continuum for all individuals. This presentation explores how rehabilitation can take place over the long-term in non-traditional settings and make health and quality living the ultimate goal for persons who need rehabilitation.
   
   A model for healthcare delivery is presented that specifically defines rehabilitation services in a more humanistic manner on a continuum of overall health related care. Cutting edge assistive technology that enhances functioning as well as alternative practices that have ancient roots in spiritual approaches are cited along with research data that supports the integration of these approaches in current care. The role of the arts in healing arts is discussed as well as the concept of disability as a transformational experience. Additionally, a therapist, who is herself a brain injury survivor and now serves as a peer mentor to other individuals with traumatic brain injury, speaks about her own poignant journey and "life after rehab."
   
   Health and quality of life for individuals with a disability is a reflection of how we as society perceive health and quality of life for everyone. "Life after rehab" is an important concept, especially when we consider that we are all one step away from disability.
   
   
3. Evidence-Based Outcome: Humanistic and Arts Therapies -- sponsored by APA Division 32, Humanistic Psychology and APA Division 10, Psychology, Creativity and the Arts.

2005 APA CONVENTION

Dr. Serlin made the following two presentations at the American Psychological Association annual convention in Washington, DC on August 20, 2005. Both were sponsored by APA Division 1, the Society for General Psychology:

1. Challenges & Creativity -- a symposium presented by Dr. Ilene Serlin, Dr. Marie DiCowden, and Dr. Tobi Zausner.
   
   This symposium discussed the central role of psychology in facilitating the creativity of challenged individuals and also in examining their creative processes. Psychology helps challenged people uncover their gifts and find a path to wellness through creative expression.
   
   
2. The Postmodern War on Terrorism -- an invited paper presented by Dr. Ilene Serlin as part of a panel on 21st Century Psychology.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ISRAEL: Creative Arts in Conflict Resolution

Imagine: Expression in the Service of Humanity --
Creative Approaches to Dealing with Conflict in Groups.
April 2-6, 2006 in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel

This conference focuses on the development of creative therapeutic tools appropriate for dealing with conflict in general and the Israel-Palestine conflict in particular. The predominant theme is touching and understanding the pain of the other as a vehicle for growth and development and to explore new ideas and approaches.

The conference brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners from group psychotherapy and group analysis, psychology, psychiatry, the expressive therapies, education, social work and related areas of inquiry, as well as from the arts. The program will incorporate presentations by distinguished speakers, simultaneous symposia, workshops and panels. Some of the topics include: Living with Conflict and Ongoing Trauma, Conflict Resolution Among Indigenous Societies, Developing Dialog During a Time of Conflict, Building Resilience in the Face of Existential Survival Issues, Artistic Responses to Difficult Times, Social Trauma - Conscious and Subconscious Consequences.

Moving Through Conflict: Understanding Personal and Cultural Differences through Movement Style. Workshop presented by Dr. Serlin and Mimi Berger. At the pre-conference on April 2-3, 2006 at Mormon University in East Jerusalem

Psychotherapy and the Arts - This course helps experienced clinicians use expressive therapies in a brief therapy model. By directly accessing the central metaphors of a client's problem, both client and therapist can understand, experience, and shift them more quickly than when the therapy stays with the discursive story line of the client's situation. In addition, the power provided by movement or enactment can bring energy to a stuck place, shifting it even further. Listening to the metaphors is developed in the language of poetry, visual image, kinaesthesia, music and drama. Participants have the opportunity to practice skills of clinical integration of modalities while tracking central themes and metaphors of the client's process.

Part I presented the foundations of the history, theory and practice of expressive arts therapies.
Part II demonstrated clinical examples of integration.
Part III provided an opportunity to practice in small groups.

Ecopsychology and Creative Arts Therapies - Ecopsychology is one of the newest movements in psychology in the United States, growing out of the global ecology crisis and the understanding that psychology must move beyond a concern for the personal psyche to a concern for the sustainability of the environment. This course covers the theory of ecopsychology, and examines the role of the artist-healer in the context of the natural world.

Space, Movement and Healing - This talk for a San Francisco architecture office focuses on the interrelationship of space, movement and healing, with particular attention to how buildings are constructed to evoke certain movements, both historically and in the present. Labanotation, a movement observation language system, is used to describe parameters of time, weight, space and flow in the vocabulary of movement and space. Examples are given of healing and movement work done in the context of a support group for women with breast cancer.

The Anne Sexton Complex - The Anne Sexton complex describes, in a language deriving from the arts rather than psychopathology, the lure and seductiveness of the Underworld. Recent films about Sylvia Plat and Sabina Spielrein and books about Christiana Morgan and Sexton illustrate renewed interest in the relationship between women, creativity, and suicide. It is very important for therapists to understand this dynamic.

This presentation for The Dream Institute of Berkeley, juxtaposes case vignettes with selections from Sexton's poetry and life to illustrate how this dynamic shows up in ourselves and those with whom we work. 4 hours CEU.

Dr. Serlin Presents to GeroWellness Interns at AgeSong

SYMPOSIUM IN SAN FRANCISCO: Creative Arts Therapies

COLLOQUIUM IN GERMANY: Dance Movement Therapy

BREAST CANCER PREVENTION: REDUCING RISK THROUGH LIFESTYLE

COMMUNITY EVENT: Race for the Cure

SUPPORT GROUP: Bereavement Spiritual Support Group

SHORT COURSE: Whole Person Health Care: Integrating Mind-Body Therapies into Clinical Practice

WORKSHOP: Integrative Psychology, A Whole Person Approach

WORKSHOP: Body Image: A Class for High School Women

Foundations of Dance/Movement Therapy

WORKSHOP: Movement Choirs As Transformative Process