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Events Conference – Attachment and the Arts – 12th February 2010, London Keynote Speaker, Professor Peter Fonagy, PhD FBA, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London; Chief Executive, Anna Freud Centre, London. There has been a growing recognition and research evidence of the impact of attachments on human development. As the Arts play such a pivotal part in this process, it is timely to focus on this issue and to explore how this affects Arts Therapies. Presentations will address what can be learnt from the mentalization model and the growing involvement of the Arts Therapies in the Social Inclusion agenda. Programme and booking >>.

Arts Therapies Service Users Survey The four Arts Therapies Professional Bodies (Art, Music, Drama and Dance Movement) are keen to receive direct feedback from people with mental health problems who have experienced one or more of the Arts Therapies or are currently engaged in these. They also want to hear from those who may have found it difficult or impossible to access Arts Therapies. They would value your views and comments. The survey will not take more than a few minutes to complete. Click here to take part >>

Courses & training: Introduction to Art Therapy courses: Next course will be held in London on 16 January 2010 Art Therapy Foundation Courses: One-week course London in January 2010 Thursday evening course London January - March 2010 Short CPD courses for Art Therapists: Notewriting, The Arts & The Law Risk Assessment Course with Children (Due to recent changes in the law on working with children at risk, this course has been rescheduled to the 23rd January 2010 to make sure that new information is included and its content up-to-date.) Brief Approaches to Art Therapy Alternative approaches to engagement and ways of engaging 'difficult' people Art Therapy Supervision training CATT (Childrens Accellerated Trauma Treatment) course March 2010

News: Guidelines for Art Therapy Trainees Supervisors – These are now available >>

For BAAT Members: Update on Arts Therapies in Wales Regional Group 7 (Wales) meeting 5th December 2009 CARAD, Rhayader 'ATTACHMENT AND LOSS: art, therapy and being human ' Monthly ebulletin International Journal of Art Therapy: Inscape On-line

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