April Update - CreativeTherapies/The Devonshire Award/CATScan

Hello friends, colleagues, and new cyberaquaintances,

I am pleased to announce the March edition of CATScan is now ONLINE (didn't you read that somewhere;) The edition features a Poetry Therapy book review by psychiatrist Stephen J. Rojcewicz, JR., M.D. For those of you who are excited to contribute to the April edition of CATScan the deadline is April 19th.

The site is now giving an award to outstanding websites called The Devonshire Award for Webpage Excellence. This award goes to websites that encourage people to go beyond their disabilities or blocks, to reach a higher state towards self actualization.

AND THE WINNER FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL IS

Accessible Arts - an art & disability organisation http://www.central.com.au/aarts

Congratulations to everyone at Accessible Arts for their fine work

Folks, send in your nominees for the month of May

The second order of business is CreativeTherapies Chat topics for the month of April, which are listed at the link below.

CreativeTherapies Chat Room Info http://www.erols.com/leopold/CreativeTherapies.htm

Here is the schedule for April along with descriptions of how I perceive the discussions could be focused. PLEASE NOTE-I am NOT, and in NO WAY claim to be an all knowing guru on any of the topics, but instead I am a interested practioner of music therapy. The chat will be as informative (or as uninformative) as the amount of people who attend and contribute.

Wednesday, April 1st, 1998 at 8:00 pm EST (United States) When Creative Arts Therapists become Recreation Therapists - Boundary Diffusion Have you ever been in a job where you felt your identity as a creative arts therapist was buried by a myriad of other responsibilities that were part of the contractual job? Are you in that situtation now. This discussion will focus on the cause of and the effects of loss of identity and job diffusion among creative arts therapists in the field. Students and Professionals are encouraged to attend.

Monday, April 6th, 1998 at 8:00 pm EST (United States) Public Relations Skills in Creative Arts Therapies This discussion will center around the different ideas people have used to publicize creative arts therapies in their area as well as the importance of internal and external public relations. Topics that may come up include inservicing, funding, etc..

Wednesday, April 8th, 1998 at 8:00 pm EST (United States) Object Relations Psychotherapy techniques and Creative Arts Therapies Every month, CreativeTherapies chat will highlight a school of psychotherapy- April's highlight is Object Relations Psychotherapy in the different modalities. Theories of Winnicott, Stern, Kernberg, and Klein will be discussed in relation (pun mildly intended) to how the theories provide a framework for the different creative arts therapy modalities.

Monday, April 13th, 1998 at 8:00 pm EST (United States) Creative Arts Therapies Challenge Your supervisor has just told you that to highlight your program you should collaborate with another creative arts therapist(s) on a multi-modality project. What do you do? Bring your ideas and be creative! You can use as many modalities as you wish. It will be interesting to see how your ideas are received by therapists in other modalities.

Wednesday, April 15th, 1998 at 8:00 pm EST (United States) CASE STUDY-How would you handle this situation? Mail me descriptions of challenging cases you have had and we can discuss how the case could be handled using the different modalities.

Saturday, April 18th, 1998 at 11:00 am EST (United States) ALSO KNOWN as 5:00 pm in Central Europe

INTERNATIONAL CREATIVETHERAPIES CHAT

Monday, April 21st, 1998 at 8:00 pm EST (United States) STUDENT ROUND TABLE-Continuing Education vs. Getting a Job I strongly encourage this discussion for students. Are you a student,in a masters program and are considering going for a doctorate, or are in a bachelor's program and considering going for a masters, or are you considering getting a job first and then going on for further education? What are the pros, what are the cons? A lot of questions will be asked and maybe between the attendees of the discussion, a few will be answered.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 1998 at 8:00 pm EST (United States) TENTATIVE CHAT TOPIC- GUEST SPEAKER - TO BE ANNOUNCED

Monday, April 28th, 1998 at 8:00 pm EST (United States) Discussion Ideas for May Give your input for topics that you want to see discussed on CreativeTherapies.

How to access CreativeTherapies

The easiest method of accessing CreativeTherapies is using a compatible web browser. If you have a browser that supports java (most do now days) then the chat program will appear here and the chat program will start automatically. An added feature of this particular chatroom is that you can activate the FLOAT function which lets the user easily view the chatroom while surfing other pages on the web.

I hope everyone is doing well in school or at their job and I would enjoy hearing feedback from all of you anytime you want to drop a line.

Sincerely,

VALUE THE HEALING POWERS OF MUSIC

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