Talk

MPS Art Therapy presents a talk with Barbara Fish, PhD, ATR-BC, ATCS, on the role of response art in art-based supervision.

This presentation explores art-based supervision as a multifaceted practice that relies on response art as a primary resource, augmenting verbal discussion. We will explore the role of response art in supervision for both the supervisor and the supervisee, using examples from decades of supervisory practice, spanning the provision of graduate training to working with experienced professionals. This includes the role of supervisors in helping supervisees develop strategies to manage what they witness. The concept of harm’s touch will be introduced as a reconceptualization of vicarious trauma. Harm’s touch offers a view of the impact of treatment as an opportunity to find meaning instead of seeing it as pathological, as in vicarious trauma. There will be time allotted for discussion and questions.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to define response art as it is used in our therapy.

2. Participants will be able to describe the difference between harm’s touch and vicarious trauma.

3. Participants will be able to describe the role of the supervisor’s response art in supervision.

Barbara Fish, MA, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCPC, HLM, has been an art therapy practitioner, educator, and supervisor for more than thirty years. She is currently serving as an adjunct faculty member at Saint Mary of the Woods College and at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on the use of response art in art therapy and art-based research methods that keep images central in the study. Her publications include articles, book chapters, and her book, Art-based Supervision: Cultivating Therapeutic Insight Through Imagery (Routledge, 2017). Dr Fish was given the Honorary Life Member Award from the American Art Therapy Association in 2019. She offers online supervision from her home in Southern California.

The MPS Art Therapy Department at the School of Visual Arts is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0054.

1.5 CE hours available for LCATs.

SVA wants to ensure persons with disabilities have access to this event. If you are a person with a disability who requires accommodations to access or participate in this event, please reach out to the department at arttherapy@sva.edu or to SVA Disability Resources disabilityresources@sva.edu at least seven business days prior to the event.