Start UP!: A School-Based Arts Curriculum for Native American Youth and All Cultures: Interventions for Development and Learning - Softcover

MacCarthy, MA, ATR-LPCC, Carey; Chapman, MA, ATR-BC, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1978144032 ISBN 13: 9781978144033

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Start Up! © is a year long school-based arts intervention classroom curriculum developed by Art Therapists, Carey MacCarthy MA, ATR-LPCC and Linda Chapman, MA, ATR-BC, adapted from Chapman's evidence-based Neurodevelopmental Art Therapy Trauma Treatment model, and culturally modified by Carey MacCarthy in accordance with Native American cultural advisors. This curriculum utilizes the Neurodevelopmental Art Therapy (NDAT) four stage evidence-based chronic trauma treatment model designed to strengthen and reform neural pathways for organic impairments, reduce; anxiety, depression, and aggression, and treat ADD/ADHD, PTSD, substance abuse and suicide. The Start UP! Curriculum is culturally competent/relevant to the Native American population and ALL cultures; aiming to reconnect children to their cultural heritage. The Start Up! Curriculum fosters coping skills, healthy relationships, relaxation techniques, bullying and suicide prevention, and can be tailored to any ethnicity or culture. The Start Up! Curriculum can be facilitated in the classroom and/or within individual/group therapy sessions and can be tailored to people of ALL ages...HEAL WHILE HAVING FUN!

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About the Author

Carey MacCarthy, MA, ATR-LPCC, is a Registered Art Therapist and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, holding a Master's Degree in Psychology/Art Therapy, almost 2 decades within the Art Therapy field. Carey is the Founder, Executive Director and Facilitator of Indigenous Healing Arts Alliance. She is a contributing author to the American Art Therapy Association journal, presenter, lecturer, and researcher. Carey is a Native to the San Francisco Bay Area, California and currently residing in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Linda Chapman, MA, ATR-BC, is a Registered and Board Certified Art Therapist and Founder of the Art Therapy Institute of the Redwoods in Northern California. Linda has published book chapters and peer reviewed papers, and is the author of Neurobiologically Informed Trauma Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Understanding Mechanisms of Change, which is now being utilized with children around the world. Linda specializes in treating children and adolescents with learning difficulties, and those with histories of acute and chronic child abuse, violence and medical trauma.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1978144032
• ISBN 13: 9781978144033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170