Various kinds of power play a role in all of our lives. The misuse of that power can have cruel and catastrophic effects on any of us. The Power Threat Meaning Framework summarises and integrates a great deal of evidence about the role of various kinds of power in people’s lives, the kinds of threat that misuse of power pose to us and the ways we have learnt to respond to those threats. The Framework also looks at how we make sense of these difficult experiences.

Convenors: Val Huet, Neil Springham, Alex McDonald, Richard Whittaker, Michele Wood

The current sharp increase in children and young people’s mental health issues at a time of significant budget cuts means that services are struggling to meet this need. ARTiculate is designed and endorsed by BAAT specifically for staff in education settings who wish to be better equipped to support children and young people through art.

Convenors: Mary Rose Brady

A key task of the British Association of Art Therapists is to act as the learned society for the profession and the International Journal of Art Therapy: Inscape is the primary record of this activity. The validity of what appears in the journal rests on sound peer review with the BAAT membership forming the basis of that peer system. The development of art therapy theory that is truly representative of contemporary practice rests on the widest possible involvement of BAAT members.

Convenors: Dr S. Carr, A. McDonald & H. Jury

The course will look at Eating Disorders (mainly Anorexia) from different perspectives. It will consider physical health issues, common complex dynamics of splits in families, the possible paralysis of thinking in teams and organisations, and the role of individual therapists within this.

Convenors: Cliff Free

This course is open to all who wish to attend. Since 2015, the world has witnessed an unprecedented movement of people into Europe fleeing contexts of war, persecution, social upheaval and poverty from the Middle East, Asia and Africa. There is growing interest in the need for appropriate interventions to support people on a psychological level and the skills of Art Therapists are beginning to be recognised as relevant and needed within this context.

Convenors: Bobby Lloyd

COURSE FULL NEW DATES COMING SOON What is the impact of trauma, neglect, toxic stress & disrupted attachment on children, adolescents, and on their surrounding adults? What is the impact on the body, brain, emotions, behaviours, learning, and relationships? This course focuses on translating the latest evidence-base, neuroscience findings, and attachment, loss, stress, and trauma theories into day-to-day case work.

Convenors: Dr Karen Treisman

This course is open to all who wish to attend and provides a recent historical context of child protection with the aim of clarifying the duties & responsibilities of Art Therapists in safeguarding children as part of today’s C&YP work force. Whether working independently or as an employee of an organisation, this course will explore duties, responsibilities and reporting lines informed by the new updated “Working Together” 2017.

Convenors: Mary Rose Brady & Sarah Kendrick

This course is intended for art therapists who are supervisors and for those who may be thinking about taking on this role. All levels of experience are welcome. Supervisory tasks may include clinical or managerial roles or both and supervisees may be experienced art therapists or students in training. The course will provide theoretical input by looking at different models of supervision.

Convenors: Val Huet & Janet de Heger

This course is for qualified mental health practitioners only. (psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, art therapists, drama therapists, play therapists etc.) You must be qualified and currently under a professional body which enables you to undertake mental health treatment as well as hold insurance. CATT is an internationally applied and well-established child-centred technique for treating developmental trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Convenors: Carly Raby

This course is open all qualified professions only. The course will outline the basics of formulation, with examples of formulations drawn from mainstream psychological therapies. It will give careful consideration to the needs of those who use art therapy services and then to how existing art therapy practices can be added to formulation in order to strengthen it as a basis for treatment.

Convenors: Neil Springham & Alex McDonald

This course is open to all Qualified Professionals EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a trauma therapy which can be used in conjunction with Art Psychotherapy to help address blocks, phobias, and anxiety. It is well evidenced as effective for PTSD. This course is aimed at those who are not trained in or using EMDR in their practice, yet.

Convenors: Lee Simmons

This course is for qualified Art Therapists or other qualified creative therapists only. Dyadic Parent-Child Art Psychotherapy is a way of working which focuses directly on the child’s primary attachment relationship. The therapist does not become the child’s therapist or the caregiver’s therapist but the relationship’s therapist.

Convenors: Anthea Hendry, Katie Wilson & Amanda Platt

This course is open to all who wish to attend. What is the impact of trauma, neglect, toxic stress & disrupted attachment on children, adolescents, and on their surrounding adults? What is the impact on the body, brain, emotions, behaviours, learning, and relationships? This course focuses on translating the latest evidence-base, neuroscience findings, and attachment, loss, stress, and trauma theories into day-to-day case work.

Convenors: Karen Treisman