Expressive arts — including drawing, painting, and creative visual expression — provide children with non-verbal channels to communicate, process, and integrate difficult experiences. In CBPT, expressive arts are used as structured clinical tools to facilitate emotional expression and support cognitive restructuring.

This course provides the theoretical rationale and practical techniques for using expressive arts within CBPT sessions, with concrete examples of how art-based activities can be integrated into structured treatment plans.

Course objectives

1. Apply expressive arts as evidence-based tools in CBPT sessions
2. Use art-based activities for emotional expression and cognitive restructuring
3. Adapt expressive arts techniques to different presentations and developmental levels
4. Integrate arts-based methods within the CBPT theoretical framework

Course requirements

• Psychiatrists
• Psychologists
• Clinical Social Workers
• Licensed Professional Counselors
• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
• Licensed Mental Health Clinical Nurse Practitioners

The delivery of the certificate of attestation at the conclusion of the course will be tied to the evaluation of participants' requirements. In the absence of the requirements, the course hours will not be certified.