Multiple Self-States Drawing Technique

<p>This book introduces the Multiple Self-States Drawing Technique (MSSDT), a creative, transdiagnostic, clinical assessment tool and treatment intervention for child and adolescent clients. The MSSDT provides clinicians and patients with a novel opportunity to bridge the gap in youngsters’ selves-awareness of discrete emotional states.</p><p>Dr. Parente teaches clinicians how to guide clients through this contemporaneous version of projective figure drawing in order to discover and explore trauma-based, dissociative, and emotionally dysregulated self-states and to focus on adaptive, resilient states of well-being. Specific, step-by-step instructions are provided, and case illustrations demonstrating the proposed clinical advantages of the method are presented. Chapters show how this experiential, psycho-educational, arts-based activity can be flexibly applied to a broad range of ages and clinical populations and how using the MSSDT may support mental health professionals’ clinical work.</p><p>Through this manual, clinicians will learn how to help clients foster a beneficial relational encounter, promote therapeutic self-expression, and develop an enhanced self and other awareness.</p> <p><strong>About the Author </strong><strong>Acknowledgments </strong><strong>Chapter 1.</strong> Drawings—A Way of Understanding: An Introduction <strong>Chapter 2.</strong> Projective Drawing Measures in the Assessment of Children and Adolescents <strong>Chapter 3.</strong> The Multiple Self-States Model <strong>Chapter 4.</strong> Development of the Multiple Self-States Drawing Technique <strong>Chapter 5.</strong> The Multiple Self-States Drawing Technique Procedure <strong>Chapter 6.</strong> Proposed Values of the MSSDT <strong>Chapter 7.</strong> Early Childhood Case Study—Child With OCD <strong>Chapter 8.</strong> Early Adolescent Case Study—Teen With Relational Trauma History <strong>Chapter 9.</strong> Late Adolescent Case Study—College Student With Social Anxiety <strong>Summary and Conclusions References</strong></p>