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></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></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>