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Join us and expand your awareness, gain new perspectives through encountering collective roles, and learn new psychodrama skills.

During this highly experiential workshop, participants will learn and practice the psychodramatic method, its structure, skills and techniques which are applicable to work with individuals, couples, families and groups.

This course is designed to offer training in therapeutic psychodrama, and sociodrama. This course also offers training in advanced counseling techniques, specifically the use of therapeutic psychodrama, role playing, and sociodrama. Students will be trained in general role playing, serving as a significant other, and doubling. They will participate in sociodrama, situational psychodrama and classical psychodrama, and other specific related techniques.

Previous training in psychodrama is not required. These sessions are for anyone from first time student to master trainer, and are designed to introduce one to the method. All sessions are designed to stand alone so that attendance at all sessions is not required.

Psychodrama has a myriad of applications such as exploring issues of collective trauma, dreams, internal conflict, tension, mental health and rehabilitation. It has been used world-wide in settings such as education, healthcare, residential, personal growth groups, social service organizations and communities.

The efficacy of various warm-ups and techniques with different populations are examined. Development of psychodrama, practical applications and history of Jacob L. Moreno are also explored.

Learning Objectives

Define psychodrama
Name the 3 parts of every psychodrama
Describe psychodrama's philosophical underpinnings
List at least 3 applications of psychodrama
Design a psychodrama warm-up

Limitations and Risks:

Participants understand the nature, objectives, limitations, and results from the training are distinctly different from the formal study of the creative arts therapies
There are potential risks when introducing creative arts into your practice without adequate training
The creative arts therapies are an evidenced-based treatment

At the end of this workshop, participants will receive a certificate stating they have completed this 15 Hour CE course with a short course description. This workshop provides 1 credit hour for Drama Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy students.

Center for Creative Arts Therapy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7460. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Center for Creative Arts Therapy is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Required Drama Therapy Course - 1 Credit Psychodrama/Sociodrama

Required EAT Course - 1 Credit Psychodrama/Sociodrama

(1 credit of 3 required credits)

Psychodrama (15 CEs)

$450.00

Required Drama Therapy Course (all students must take 45 total hours of psychodrama/sociodrama = 3 credit hours)

(15 Hours/1 credit) Saturday & Sunday, October 26-27, 2024, 9:00AM-5:30PM at the Center for Creative Arts Therapy 2600 Warrenville Rd., Suite 205, Downers Grove, IL 60515
Dear Future Workshop Participant,

Thank you for choosing the Center for Creative Arts Therapy. Chek in will be from 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM on the first day of your class. Should you have any special requirements or needs please contact our office at (847) 477-8244.

Certificates will be distributed approximately one week after the conclusion of the course requirements and assignments. Certificates are awarded according to the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA) and International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA) regulations and are based upon clock hours of attendance.

We understand that unforeseen circumstances may prevent you from arriving at the start of the program or cause you to have to leave the program early. Please understand we can only award Certificates based upon your attendance. Certificates will be adjusted accordingly for those attendees arriving or leaving significantly early or late.

Materials that are included in these courses may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that may be considered beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.
Dr. Brittany Lakin-Starr, PhD, TEP

Dr. Brittany Lakin-Starr is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 10 years of experience treating adults, children, and families from diverse backgrounds. Her areas of interest include: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), behavioral concerns, school issues, relationship challenges, and adjustment difficulties. She also helps individuals navigate life transitions; for example, young adulthood, becoming a couple, or starting a family.

Dr. Lakin-Starr is certified in Psychodrama. Additionally, she is trained in Gottman Couples therapy, Prolonged Exposure therapy for PTSD, Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and evidenced-based parenting strategies. She is also a Gottman Seven Principles Educator and a Gottman Bringing Baby Home Program Educator.

Before co-founding the Chicago Center for Growth and Change, Dr. Lakin-Starr was a staff psychologist at Illinois Masonic Medical Center’s Behavioral Health Services for seven years, where she provided supervision and didactic instruction for the clinical psychology doctoral students. While there, she oversaw the Effective Parenting Program and Children’s Social Skills groups. She also founded the psychodrama program and for the last five years led psychodrama groups. Dr. Lakin-Starr has worked in a variety of settings and has helped adults and children in medical centers, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, children’s hospitals, community mental health centers, and college counseling centers.

Dr. Lakin-Starr has taught many undergraduate psychology classes as adjunct faculty at Loyola University and is a frequent guest lecturer at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She conducts the mental health lecture series for both the Physical Therapy and the Prosthetics and Orthotics programs. She has also been featured as a guest psychologist in several articles. Recently, she was a guest on Dr. Zachary Friedman’s podcast, The 50 Minute Hour, where they discussed psychodrama.

Psychodrama (15 CEs)

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