Dealing with events

Dyadic art therapists aim to help the dyad to deal with and process life events.

These events could be

• events that happen within the session

• events that are happening in the child’s life, but are outside of sessions

• past events that continue to have a troublesome impact on the child and carer

Achieving the goal

Details about the steps therapists take to achieve this goal, can be found in the next stage of the manual, Steps.

Steps specific for this goal include

• responding to events in the sessions

• processing past events

• thinking with the dyad about current events

• facilitating joined-up conversations between carer and child

• explaining and educating