Dr. Haen recently appeared as a featured expert in a series of training videos for educators developed by Connect With Kids in partnership with the Archdiocese of New York Drug Abuse Prevention Program (ADAPP). These short videos cover topics ranging from warning signs and risk factors, to common myths about suicide, to how to respond…
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Dates for training: September 23-25, 2022 • December 2-4, 2022 • March 3-5, 2023 • June 2-4, 2023 After a 2-year hiatus, the Kint Institute, where Dr. Haen is the Training Director, will return for in-person clinical training this fall. This is an ideal program for therapists who wish to gain a grounding in using…
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Hot off the presses, a new and ground-breaking book by Rebekka Dietrich-Hartwell and Anne Margrethe Melsom called Dance/Movement Therapy for Trauma Survivors: Theoretical, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives. This text offers a broad survey of the role that movement and body work can play in the healing of trauma, across settings, contexts, and patient populations. Integrating…
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Craig is proud to be teaching in the new Post Graduate Certificate Program in Applied Expressive Arts in Counseling at Adelphi University. This 10-month program is a multimodal expressive arts based training that introduces the application of the expressive arts in the counseling process for social workers, psychologists, mental health counselors, substance abuse professionals, marriage…
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Craig will be returning to the 12th annual Expressive Therapies Summit to present a virtual workshop with Allyn Sitjar entitled Responding to High-Risk Behaviors in Traumatized Adolescents. Taking place the morning of Saturday, November 20th, this presentation will utilize brain research, case material, and experiential learning to offer participants a multi-tiered approach to forming relationships…
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Craig was quoted as a featured subject matter expert on trauma in a piece this weekend in the Toronto Star. Titled “Trauma and the Taliban,” the article (by reporter Katharine Lake Berz) explores how Afghan refugees to Canada have been retraumatized by the recent rise in power of the Taliban in Afghanistan. In the article,…
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Craig has served as co-author of three recently-published, peer-reviewed studies on the use of the arts in treating trauma. Two of these studies, published in the academic journal The Arts in Psychotherapy, focus on the implementation of school-based art therapy with male adolescents of color in the South Bronx.The first, “Investigating Impact: The Effects of…
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During the course of the pandemic, Craig has offered training and consultation for numerous arts organizations and museums in NYC on trauma-responsive education practices, in partnership with the Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation. This included an experiential workshop for teaching artists co-facilitated with Epic Theatre Ensemble. Craig has also served as a content expert offering…
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Craig received the 2021 Social Responsibility Award from the American Group Psychotherapy Association in recognition of his work as co-chair, with Suzanne Phillips, of the Community Outreach Task Force. This award, which was presented at the 2021 AGPA Connect virtual conference, is given annually to an individual or group whose work has been deemed of…
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Craig recently was the featured guest on two podcasts. He appeared on The Creative Psychotherapist, hosted by Reina Lombardi, where he discussed trauma treatment and the origins of the Kint Institute’s training program. He also appeared in April on Psych Up Live on Voice America, hosted by Suzanne Phillips. He joined Dr. Molyn Leszcz, president…
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