Friday, October 26 
1:00 – 4:00 p.m. (ticket) 
Stuart A. Copans, M.D., Charles R. Joy, M.D. 

This Workshop focuses on using art and poetry in assessment, in ongoing treatment, and in increasing the therapist’s understanding of transference and countertransference issues. Participants learn to use Winnicott’s squiggle game in assessment, in therapy, and as part of their interaction with children while managing their medications, and also some simple book structures that can be used to make books with children. Each participant makes a small tunnel book or accordion book. The Workshop also addresses the use of poetry as a way of exploring countertransference issues and attendees participate in a facilitated poetry writing exercise. Participants may enrich their experience of the Workshop by bringing short poems they have written about their practice of child psychiatry and by reading On Not Being Able to Paint, by Joanna Field, Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry, by D.W. Winnicott, or Homemade Books to Help Kids Cope, by Robert G. Ziegler. 

Sponsored by the AACAP Arts Committee