Biography
Kim Anderson holds a bachelor’s degree in mass media, completing both writing and photography tracks, and a minor in graphic arts. She developed an independent curriculum in media arts for social services and received a Master’s in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. After a twenty year clinical career, she also obtained a post-graduate certificate in Expressive Arts Psychotherapy from the St. Louis Institute of Art Psychotherapy. Utilizing her training and experience as an expressive therapist, she returned to work with children, interfacing often with schools and educators on behalf of students, families and communities.While practicing as a psychotherapist, Kim co-owned a group therapy practice and was responsible for the marketing management as well as clinical coordination. She developed a certificate program in women’s psychotherapy, supervising both students and professionals, and has conducted numerous training workshops and presentations for agencies, community organizations, and conferences. Kim also maintained a consulting practice, providing clinical expertise and program development to social service agencies and independent professionals. These skills, combined with writing, research and editing experience branched into consultation with other small, socially conscious businesses and entrepreneurs.Among her clinical specializations, Kim gained recognition for expertise in multiculturalism and diversity. For several years she was a contributing editor for the Social Work Journal, the professional publication of the National Association of Social Workers, most often editing submissions addressing issues important to women and culturally diverse populations.Kim is a published writer/poet, a photographer, and mixed-media artist who has also presented a number of writing and creativity workshops. She is a contributor to Bonnie's latest book, The Biracial and Multiracial Student Experience: A Journey to Racial Literacy. Kim is a licensed clinical social worker and a registered art therapist with nearly thirty years experience treating, training, and supervising in the areas of diversity and clinical accountability.In the past few years, Kim has worked with Bonnie behind the scenes to promote the Educating for Change message. Now she is expanding that message to school counseling for change. Her book, Culturally Considerate School Counseling: Helping Without Bias available through Corwin Press.
Workshops
Workshops Presented and Facilitated byKim L. Anderson, MSW, LCSW, ATR-BCCulturally Considerate School Counseling and Social Work:Helping Without BiasThese full, half-day, and multiple day workshops provide unique resources for consideration of students seeking or referred for school counseling and social work services, guidelines and strategies based upon those considerations, and strategies for dealing with a myriad of issues and challenges within the school setting.Goals of the workshop include:Defining diverse and significant student populations.Identifying needs and influences of specific populations.Outlining counseling guidelines beyond basic skill level.Providing culturally competent and creative counseling strategies.Assessing personal self-care and professional competency.Strategies for building a caring and compassionate school community.Through didactic presentation, case examples, and experiential exercises, participants will be given tools for assessment, intervention, self-care and team building. Based on the authors book, Culturally Considerate School Counseling: Helping Without Bias, published by Corwin Press 2010, workshops are best augmented by participants having the book in hand, but can also be presented as stand-alone workshops with handouts including an innovative model developed by the author, Kim L. Anderson and Dr. Bonnie M. Davis.Creating Culturally Considerate Schools: Educating Without BiasThis workshop is designed for administrators, PLCs, and teacher leaders, though participants at all levels are welcome. Based upon the upcoming book by the same name, the format is based upon the Anderson Davis Model of Diversity Development and Equity Skillbuilding.Missing the Point: How School Violence is Mislabeled, Misunderstood, and MishandledSomewhere between Eddie Haskells fictional Mayfield and the harsh reality of Littleton, Colorado, there is a surge of behaviors among school age children and adolescents that has pushed educators, parents, mental health professionals and juvenile justice officers to scramble for definitions, answers and interventions. Bullying has become the accepted terminology for this behavior but it is a misnomer, sometimes minimizing actions, sometimes overreaching. This presentation will:Define school violence, barriers to conflict resolution and issues of learned helplessness and/or secondary stress among educators which may inadvertently contribute to the problem or the inability to problem solve.Address the acute problem of school violence and epidemic rates of self-harm among victimized youth.Present micro and macro strategies to increase inclusion and safety for all students, faculty, and families.Give criteria for school re-entry for both victim and aggressor.This presentation offers the following timely and tangible elements:Overview of the current socio-political climate and conditions which contribute to school atmospheres where hate speech, violence, and bigotry are considered normative.Self-assessment and self-care strategies for beleaguered educators and other school personnel.Defining school violence (so-called bullying) from normative child and adolescent relational development and conflict resolution.Delineating zero tolerance policies on behavior vs. students.Interventive strategies for assisting victimized students and programmatic guidelines for safe reentry into the school community.Interventive strategies for addressing the behavior of the aggressor and suggestions for assessment.Present the primary and tertiary importance of reparation, character education, creativity, and spirituality in addressing the epidemic of school violence and stabilizing school environments.Experiential and Team Building WorkshopsWindows of Opportunity: Building a Multicultural Community through ArtThrough art making, writing response, and visual dialogue, attendees will experience the choices and challenges of building an integrated community. First creating a “window to my worldâ€, participants will incorporate individual art pieces into group compositions simulating neighborhoods, culminating in the creation of a community whole through interaction, negotiation and acceptance.Windows of Opportunity: Building a Multicultural Community through Art provides an opportunity for participants to experience and explore the value and meaning of diversity and co-existence through the creation of a cultural within a culture.Depending upon the size of the group, after presentation and discussion of these personal portals, dyads or small groups will self-select to be “neighbors†and group compositions will be formed to represent boroughs or burgs. Through writing, art, story-telling, and visual dialogue, neighborhood identities will be constructed.The workshop concludes with total group participation in the creation of a singular community-in-art installation from the small group neighborhood compositions and a ceremonial naming of the settlement.Primary and mixed-media, collage, and found objects will be provided for this workshop. Several large, sturdy corrugated cardboard boxes will provide the infrastructure for the completed communal product.Mixed Media: Exploring Biracial and Multiracial Identity through Mandala MakingThis expressive arts workshop explores the meaning of blended cultural identity. Through individual and group experience, participants will collect cultural palettes from which one melded mandala will be created. Circles occur naturally and frequently in nature. Humans throughout history have depicted their own relationship with the natural world through creation of circles in imagery and ritual. From Tibet to the American Southwest, mandala forms have been used to map the past, integrate the present, and anticipate the future.Mandalas can be representations of the “whole†or “essence†of something at any given time, whether it is a relationship, a situation, or a life. While generally round or circular in form, many mandalas are seen as having distinct quadrants, often constructed with the unconscious intent of “squaring the circle†or “rounding the squareâ€, symbolizing the universal quest for completion, identity, and transformation.Meal of the Imagination: Recipes for ChangeBreaking bread is an archetypal symbol of communion, unity, peace and prosperity. During this workshop, individual place settings are created then brought together in a community constructed table. Through art, music, story and blessings, participants will share a "meal of the imagination".Attendants are considered special guests invited to participate in an experiential feast dedicated to feeding the soul and nourishing the spirit. First creating individual place settings to reflect their intent and receptivity, participants will then create a symbolic dish to share, set a communal table together, and prepare an expressive bounty to satisfy the hungry heart.Negotiating space, respecting individuality, and sharing portions of one another’s lives can be precarious prospects. This workshop is ideal for total team building, staff development, and is suggested as a day long experience for school personnel at every level service.
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Kim's Imagery
Kim Anderson's career path has been a diverse and divergent one. Prior to obtaining her graduate degree in social work from Washington University in St. Louis, she was a free-lance writer, photographer and graphic artist with interests in oppression and liberation through outsider art. After many years of private practice as a licensed clinical social worker, clinical supervisor and educator, she received a post-graduate certificate in art psychotherapy and now is a board certified registered art therapist. She is the author of Culturally Considerate School Counseling: Helping Without Bias, published by Corwin Press in 2010 and is the co-author with Bonnie M. Davis of Creating Culturally Considerate Schools: Educating Without Bias, also to be published by Corwin in early 2012.
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KIM ANDERSON, MSW, LCSW, ATR-BCCLINICAL CONSULTANTCURRENT POSITIONS AND AFFILIATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL SUMMARYLicensed Clinical Social Worker and Board Certified Art TherapistClinician, Educator, Consultant and Author, based in Saint Louis, Missouri since 1978.Independent practice of the psychotherapeutic arts and comprehensive consultation for human services programs and helping professionals. Areas of expertise include wholistic mental health, responsible practice, self-care for the care giver, creative enrichment, cultural diversity and multicultural issues.Educating for Change, St. Louis, Missouri, Saint Louis, MissouriCadre Member and Media Coordinator for nationally recognized educational consultant. Cadre specialization in school counseling, media coordination, website design and maintenance, and e-newsletter editing and publication.Consultant and Freelance Writer/Editor, Saint Louis, Missouri (since 1998)Specializing in media services to socially conscious entrepreneurs, small businesses, and human service organizations. Published mainstream and professional writer and poet. Editor of professional books, journals, and doctoral thesis.ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCESocial Work, A Journal of the National Association of Social Workers (2000 2003)Contributing Editor. Reviewed articles submitted for publication; content specializations: womens issues and multiculturalism in social work research and practice.St. Louis Institute of Art Psychotherapy, Saint Louis, Missouri (1995-2001)Instructor. Courses included Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy, Psychopathology, Research Methods in Art Psychotherapy and Group Principles and Practice.Field Instructor / Licensure Supervisor (1990-2001)Supervision of students and graduates from all major universities in eastern and mid-Missouri regions.Women's Counseling Collective, Saint Louis, Missouri (1987-2000)Co-founder and clinical coordinator of private practice, supervision and training program specializing in psychotherapy issues pertaining to physical, emotional, and sexual violence.PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENTResidential Psychiatric Services, Saint Louis, Missouri (2006-2008)Contract therapist for adults residing in residential care environments.Family Resource Center, Saint Louis, Missouri (2002-2005) and (1985-1987)Per diem Family Therapist and Art Therapist providing expressive arts therapy to children and families. Previously held position as Senior Family Therapist.Macoupin County Mental Health Center, Carlinville, Illinois (1985)Clinical Supervisor for a variety of programs including general services to individuals, couples, families, and counseling for children and youth with attention to households affected by chronic mental illness, developmental disabilities, alcohol and drug abuse, domestic violence, and sexual abuse. Women's Self Help Center, Saint Louis, Missouri (1983-1985)Individual and group therapist with emphasis on issues of adult women surviving the traumas of domestic violence, rape, and child sexual abuse.Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri (1981-1984)Administrative and research assistant for Eloise Rathbone McCuan, Ph.D. in the field of older womens studies, and for the Child Welfare Institute under the supervision of director, Jo Mink, including projects focused upon abuse and neglect, foster care and adoption, and physical and mental health special needs.Self-Employed, Southwestern Missouri (1978-1982)Free lance writer, photographer, and graphic artist in the Ozarks Mountain region of Southern Missouri. Projects included publication and film work, general media project coordination, and extensive darkroom management, processing, developing and printing skills.EDUCATIONPost-Graduate Certificate, St. Louis Institute of Art Psychotherapy, Saint Louis, Missouri (2001)Masters of Social Work (MSW), Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri (1984)Designed and implemented an independent curriculum combining a prior degree and career in mass media with an interest in promoting social issues and service organizations.Bachelors of Science in Mass Media (1980)Double majors in writing and photography; minor in graphic arts.PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPSAmerican Art Therapy AssociationNational Association of Social WorkersTitle IPERSONAL MEMBERSHIPSThe Carter CenterHabitat for HumanitySt. Louis Zoo ParentsMissouri Botanical GardensSouthern Poverty Law CenterREFERENCESBONNIE DAVIS, PH.D. (314-496-3596)KATHLEEN GRAVES, PH.D. (907-244-8711)DEBRA KUHN, MSW, MAED., LCSW, LPC (314-397-4632)ADDITIONAL CLINICAL TRAINING AND CONTINUING EDUCATIONLeadership for Equity and Excellence Forum 2011, various instructors, AZ State UniversityInnovate! 2011 National Tile I Conference, various national instructorsLeadership for Equity and Excellence Forum 2010, various instructors, AZ State UniversityAuthentic Movement Group for Therapists, Caroline Heckman, Dance TherapistEngaging with Artwork, Cathy Moon, MA, ATR, BCMidwest Festival of Expressive Arts Therapies, Various PresentersAuthentic Movement, Caroline Heckman, Dance TherapistCurrent Strategies in Trauma Treatment, Christine Courtois, Ph.D.Cash, Credit and Co-Dependency, Yvonne Kaye, Ph.D.Art is a Way of Knowing, Pat AllenShadows on the Wall: Silhouettes of the Self, Ericha Scott, Ph.D.Multiple Personality Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment, Colin Ross, M.D.Relapse Prevention, Terry Gorski, Ph.D.Double Duty, Dual Identities, Claudia Black, Ph. D.Social Work Ethical Inquiries Committee Training, Wm. ButterfieldEthical Issues in Social Work, Frederick Reamer, DSW, JD.Child Abuse Treatment and Play Therapy, Eliana Gil, Ph.D.Advanced Training in Treatment of Abuse, various instructors, State of IllinoisClinical Interventions in Child Sexual Abuse, Suzanne Sgroi, M.D.Men Who Rape, Nicholas Groth, Ph.D.Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders, James Masterson, M.D.Women who Kill in Self-Defense, Lenore Walker, Ph.D.ALTERNATIVE AND CREATIVE ARTS TRAININGElemental Earthways: Various Natural/Wholistic Healing Topics, Pat TuholskeSt. Louis Writers Workshop, David LinzeeCreative Non-Fiction, Ina HughesCoyote Medicine, Louis Mehl-Medrona, MDDrum & Rattle Making for Wellness, Lench ArchulettaCraft Alliance: Weaving, Hand built and Wheel Thrown Pottery, Various InstructorsDeath and Dying, Sandra Ingerman, MAThe Way of the Shaman, Michael Harner, Ph.D. PUBLICATIONSCulturally Considerate School Counseling: Helping Without Bias, Corwin Press, 2010.Raising Eddie Haskell, CharacterPlus article, April 2010.Ending Bias Begins at Home, CharacterPlus article, November 2009.Chapter in How to Teach Bi-racial and Mixed Race Students, by Bonnie Davis, author and editor, Corwin Press, June 2009.Vocational Rehabilitation and Marguerite Weavers Stew, poems published September 2004, MARGIE: American Journal of PoetrySoul Proprietors: Finding Right Livelihood Series, Spirit Seeker Magazine, 2003.Full Circle: Countertransference Containment through Mandala-Making (A Case Study of Closure) Art Therapy Thesis, ©2002.The Nature of Creativity, The Healthy Planet, 2001ORIGINAL GROUPS, WORKSHOPS, AND COURSES(Multiple Presentations of each, 1985 -present)Hot Flashes, Cool Stories: The Muse at Menopause (with Bonnie Davis)Writing the Womans Way: A Creative Writing Workshop Honoring the Feminine Frame of Mind (with Bonnie Davis)Righting Creatively: Trickster Tales and other April FoolsRighting Creatively: Creative Writing as an Expressive Arts Therapy (for professionals)In Search of Spirit: Group for Women Exploring Spiritual Growth and DevelopmentCreative Consciousness: A Workshop Series Exploring the Creative and Spiritual Life-CycleTreating Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Violation: A professional training and supervision group based upon the ten-week group model (with Debra Kuhn)Loving Someone who has Been Sexually Abused: A Workshop for Partners of Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (with Debra Kuhn)PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND TRAININGS CONDUCTEDNASW Missouri Show-Me Symposium, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, March 2011Culturally Considerate School Counseling: Helping Without BiasWindows of Opportunity: Building a Multicultural Community through ArtLeadership for Equity and Excellence Forum, Phoenix, Arizona, February/March 2011Culturally Considerate School Counseling: Helping Without BiasHarlem School District, Machesney, Illinois, February 2011Culturally Considerate School Counseling: Helping Without BiasNational Title I Conference, Tampa, Florida, January 2011Culturally Considerate School Counseling: Helping Without BiasHazelwood School District, Hazelwood, Missouri, January 2011 Culturally Considerate School Counseling: Helping Without BiasLeadership for Equity and Excellence Forum, Phoenix, Arizona, February 2010Windows of Opportunity: New Views Through ArtResidential Psychiatric Services In-Service Training, St. Louis, Missouri, April, 2007Working with Developmentally Delayed Clients: Facing our Limitations, Expanding our SkillsMidwest Festival of Expressive Arts Therapies, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, June 2003Windows of Opportunity: Building a Multicultural Community through ArtSocial Work 2000: Strategies to Succeed in the New Market Economy, NASW's Meeting of the Profession, Baltimore, Maryland, November, 2000Wholistic Practice: A Systemic Approach to Mind, Body, Psyche and Spirit in Clinical Work"Prescott College, Tucson, Arizona, February 19, 2000"Id, Identity, and Ideas of Reference: Evolution of a Practice Identity"Turning Point, Warrenton, Missouri, May - June, 1997"Rape and Sexual Assault Response Training"Missouri Coalition Against Domestic Violence, St. Louis, Missouri, April 1997"Secondary Survival: Self-Care for the Care Giver who works with Domestic Violence"(PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND TRAININGS continued)Jewish Family and Children's Services, St. Louis, Missouri, January 1997. "Secondary Survival: Self-Care for the Care Giver who works with Severe Trauma Recovery".Jewish Family and Children's Services, St. Louis, Missouri, November 1996. "Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Interventions and Strategies of Psychotherapy"Missouri Coalition Against Sexual Assault First Annual Conference, (In conjunction with MOVA Annual Conference), Lake of the Ozarks, March, 1996. "Secondary Survival: Self-Care for the Care Giver who works with Severe Trauma Recovery".Jewish Community Center Association, St. Louis, Missouri, 1995. "Self-Care for Care Givers".Women's Self Help Center, St. Louis, Missouri, 1994. "Secondary Survival: Self-Care for the Care Giver who works with Severe Trauma Recovery"National Association of Social Workers (Missouri Chapter) Annual Conference, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, April 1994. "Secondary Survival: Self-Care for the Care Giver who works with Severe Trauma Recovery"Great Rivers Mental Health, St. Louis, Missouri, 1993. "Ritualistic Abuse: Overview and Implications for Treatment"Family Resource Center, St. Louis, Missouri. "Ritualistic Abuse: Overview and Implications for Treatment" (1993) and "Characteristics of Families at Risk for Violence and Related Treatment Issues" (1987) Division of Family Services, Jefferson County, Missouri, 1993. Ritualistic Abuse: Overview and Case Consultation"George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1992. "Multiple Personality 'Design' and the Dissociative Continuum"Women's Counseling Collective, Clayton, Missouri, 1993, 1992, 1991. Case Consultation and Supervision for Professionals Working with Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse" (with Debra Kuhn)St. Anthony's Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, 1990. "Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Group Therapy Model for In-Patient Settings" (with Debra Kuhn)(PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND TRAININGS continued)David P. Wohl Clinic, St. Louis University Hospitals, St. Louis, Missouri, 1989. "Identification and Treatment of the Adult Woman who has Survived Childhood Sexual Abuse (with Debra Kuhn)National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, July 1986. "Past Meets Present and Future: Establishing a Network Against Domestic Violence in a Rural Community" (with Carol Dodgson)National Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Annual Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, July 1985. "Toward Mutual Respect: Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and their Male Significant Others" (with Vanessa Brown, Mark Robinson and Jim Read)Breaking the Silence of Sexual Assault, St. Louis, Missouri, April, 1985. Networking: New Options for Adult SurvivorsWomen and Justice Conference, Jefferson City, Missouri, September 1984. "Female Juvenile Offenders: Implications of Sexual Abuse" (with Carol Dodgson)COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS AND VOLUNTEER TRAININGSRhythm and Blues and Reds and Greens (with Bradley Drury), The Wellness Community, September 2003.Art and Music: Expressive Therapies for Wellness (with Bradley Drury), Cancer Wellness Fair, A.G. Edwards, June 2003.Righting Creatively: The Art of Giving Thanks in Trying Times, The Wellness Community, November 2001.Righting Creatively: Trickster Tales and Other April Fools, The Wellness Community, March 2001.Gangs, Cults, and Mind Control: Methods of Psychic Manipulation, "Counseling Children and Adolescents", University of Missouri, St. Louis, November, 1996.Populations to Consider: Diversity Issues in Rape and Sexual Assault. St. Louis County YWCA Sexual Assault Response Team, 1990 - 1996.(COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS AND VOLUNTEER TRAININGS continued)Adult Survivors of Sexual Assault: Acute and Delayed On-Set Delineations of Post-traumatic Stress, "Women and Empowerment", University of Missouri, St. Louis, October, 1996.Rape and Sexual Assault Response Training. St. Charles County Victim Services, 1995-1996.Trauma History and Eating Disorders, Abtec Unit, Edgewood Program, St. John's Mercy Medical Center, February 1996.Domestic Violence: Today's Headlines, Tomorrow's Healing, "A Woman's Look to the Future" Fair, St. Charles County Community College, October 1994.Populations to Consider: Diversity Issues in Rape and Sexual Assault. SARAH Campus Sexual Assault Response Team, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1994.Sexual Harassment: An Issue of Power, Pride and Prejudice (with Debra Kuhn), Hyland Center, St. Anthony's Medical Center, June 1994.Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Violation: Specific Populations Groups, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, June 1989.Women and Mental Health Series: Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Violation (with Debra Kuhn and Ellen Tetlow), St. Anthony's Medical Center, May 1988.Counseling Techniques, Women's Self Help Center Volunteer Training, 1987.Conflict Resolution and Stress Management: Dynamics of Sexual Aggression, Blackburn College, Carlinville, Illinois, February 1986.Special Needs of the Sexually Abused Child, A.P.L.A.C.E., Foster and Pre-Adoptive Parent Training.Domestic Violence Shelter Volunteer Training (with Carol Dodgson), Taney County S.H.A.R.E. Program, Hollister, Missouri.
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