Creative Arts Intern
Resume:
Shawna Clarke
ATR-BC, LCAT
Brooklyn, NY 11212
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EXPERIENCE
Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center Brooklyn, NY — Art Therapist
SEPTEMBER 2019 - Present
• Provided individual and group treatment in adult and child inpatient psychiatry, using creative arts therapy techniques in art.
• Supervised and trained Activity Therapist.
• Documented initial and weekly assessments, participated in the development of the patient's treatment plan and participated in clinical conferences.
• Responsible for patient centered treatment planning and implementation of therapeutic group therapy programming.
• Participated and presented in clinical conferences and all medical center performance improvement activities and practices.
• Managed multiple patients in a group session; assessing need for escalation of situations, and prioritizing needs of the group.
New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York, NY — Art Therapy Intern
SEPTEMBER 2018 – April 2019
● Piloted a year long Art Therapy program in an outpatient clinic. A family-based mental health program that serves children and youth with chronic medical conditions and their families.
● Provided formal and informal educational in-services to medical staff on Creative Arts Therapy.
● Participated in scheduled interdisciplinary conferences, meetings, educational seminars, and weekly Creative Arts Therapy in-services.
● Provided group Art Therapy to young children, teenagers, adults, families and siblings in an outpatient clinic.
● Co-facilitated an adolescent Art Therapy group in an outpatient clinic.
● Provided individual Art Therapy to patients at bedside with complex needs, extensive hospitalizations, and repeated admissions.
● Conducted evaluations with medical, clinical, and Child Life staff to assess development and adjustment to hospitalization through formal and informal Art Therapy assessments.
● Completed documentation by end of each day for individual, group, and family sessions.
The League School, Brooklyn, NY — Art Therapy Intern SEPTEMBER 2017 - JUNE 2018
● Provided creative therapeutic methods to students psychiatric needs that have difficulty with social, emotional, and behavioral functioning, in both group settings and individual.
● Provided group Art Therapy to groups, using art, cooking, music and play, as gateways for self expression and group cohesion.
● Provided individual Art Therapy to Clients, providing directives, with the client’s choice of material.
EDUCATION
Pratt Institute — Master of
Professional Studies, Creative Arts
Therapy
Hunter College, City University of New
York — B.A. Studio Art
CERTIFICATIONS
● First Aid & CPR/AED
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
● Child Life Volunteer [Mount Sinai Kravis
Children’s Hospital]
● Team Leader [Various New York Cares
sites]
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