Expressive Therapies

Preferred Provider Conference, Feb. 2009

Lori Galperin, MSW, LCSWCastlewood Treatment Center for Eating Disorders

800 Holland Road636-386-6611

www.castlewoodtc.com

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To Gain Perspective on the

Family System…

Family Sculpting

Create a snapshot of the Family System by having clients put each family member in place and position with expression that conveys their stance…

Family Sculpting

…and perhaps one verbalization that characterizes them in relation to the system as a whole or whomever they are most oriented toward.

Family Sculpting

Include family pets

Stand back and see the picture formed when all are placed

Examining the Family System:

Roles, Relationships, Constraints and Context

Family Dinner Table

1. One at a time, a group member is chosen to play each role of family members at the table.

Family Dinner Table

2. Establish • Where and how they sit• Who they interact with• Three typical things they might

say.

Family Dinner Table

3. Build the enactment piece by piece, having the group watch and comment at intervals on what they feel and notice, what it would be like to be certain family members, especially client.

Family Dinner Table

4. Put it all together: Client may watch or play themselves. Process as a group.

Expressive Therapy to Facilitate Re-empowermentand Breaking the

Trauma Bond

Corrective Experience Role Play

Utilizing internal imagery or psychodramatic enactment, construct a scenario that permits confrontation of perpetrator in which, this time, an adult (in the form of the adult-self)…

Corrective Experience Role Play

…is able to champion the child-self, as did not happen in the original incident.