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Social Action Art Therapy: Enhancing Body Image, Alleviating Disordered Eating & Increasing Autonomy

This 3-hour virtual workshop will introduce and demonstrate the use of political art therapy, body liberation, and social commentary for the treatment of body image issues. By creating political posters in a group focusing on the integration of intersectionality to enhance a client's emotional and clinical development, participants will learn about the practical applications of social action and political art therapy for addressing cultural adversities surrounding the marginalization of non-traditional bodies. They will learn how political art therapy can deepen the clinical treatment of eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and body image issues. The political model of art therapy puts an emphasis on the relationship between the self, the symptoms, and the culture in which they manifest, as well as calling for an awareness of power and value issues that are believed to impact those symptoms. In this way, art therapists are facilitating a public arena for the voice of the client/artist to be “heard” within the social context. All are welcome.

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