Arts-Based Approaches to Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing // Part 1

What are the benefits of arts-based programming for youth, and how do these approaches support and improve mental health and wellbeing? How can art be used to mitigate social inequities? What strategies can you incorporate in your work with young people? This interactive 2-part webinar series, presented with Broadview Psychology, was focused on improving mental health literacy and delivering engaging and supportive arts-based programming to advance youth wellbeing. Part 1: Arts-Based Approaches Informed by Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is an empirically supported treatment for emotion regulation difficulties. This therapeutic modality offers a variety of evidence-based tools for coping with difficult emotional experiences. Over the years, DBT has been utilized in various settings and has been adapted in a number of ways to respond to a range of mental health issues. One adaption includes DBT-Informed Art Therapy. Hosted and facilitated by Adanna Anucha and Dr. Carmen Lalonde of Broadview Psychology, Part 1 looked at four core facets of DBT-informed creative arts interventions. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:41 DBT Basics 00:18:35 Mindfulness 00:35:25 Distress Tolerance 00:45:28 Dialectics in Action 00:55:30 Metaphors & Metaphorical Storytelling 01:12:19 To Summarize Attendees learned about each of these DBT-informed art activities and explored ways they can use some of this model’s tools to support the mental health of the young people they work with. -- Stay connected! Want to be the first to know about future conversations? Sign up for our newsletter: https://youthrex.com/newsletter Want to access a wealth of resources related to youth work? Check out our Knowledge Hub: https://youthrex.com/knowledge-hub Or, you can follow us on social media for a mix of everything: Twitter:   / rexforyouth   TikTok:   / youthrex   Instagram:   / rexforyouth   Facebook:   / youthrex   YouthREX's Mission: To make research evidence and evaluation practices accessible and relevant to Ontario’s grassroots youth sector through knowledge exchange, capacity building and evaluation leadership! #youthwork #youthmentalhealth #arttherapy #artthérapie #arts #socialwork #socialworker