Trauma Treatment for Kids - Healing the Body Through Play: Advanced Interactive Workshop

Objectives

Articulate how to help children with complex trauma histories restore their capacity for playfulness and co-regulation.
Evaluate the fight-or-flight response in children, and learn playful ways to teach children about the brain-body relationship.
Assess the neurophysiological theory behind developmental trauma and attachment.
Contrast diagnostic challenges within this population, and ascertain symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder which can be decreased through embodied play therapy strategies.
Combine embodied play therapy interventions with evidence-based treatment models for improving emotional and behavioral regulation.
Utilize the core components found within the leading evidence-based trauma treatments (TF-CBT, EMDR, CPP, ARC, TARGET) with play therapy techniques to improve relational engagement.
Evaluate which trauma informed treatment components “fit” with specific needs of children who have experienced developmental trauma.
Determine how core components of childcentered play therapy align with best practices for treating childhood trauma.
Employ strategies to help children with trauma through play therapy and evidence-based cognitive strategies.
Implement play therapy techniques that are consistent with the core components of trauma-informed treatment.
Develop a treatment plan for introducing play therapy to clients and families in an engaging, fun manner.
Integrate culturally attuned play therapy strategies into trauma work with children and families.

Copyright : 15/02/2018

The Ethics of Touch in Child Psychotherapy & Play Therapy

Objectives

State 10 different types of touch that can occur in a therapy session.
Demonstrate four ways to evaluate for a child’s psychosocial experiences related to touch.
Describe how to apply 5 therapeutic interventions to handle in-the-moment ethical dilemmas in a play therapy session.

Copyright : 06/08/2015

Trauma Defined: Bessel van der Kolk on The Body Keeps the Score

Objectives

Evaluate how trauma influences the activity of the key areas of the brain and how that dictates behavior patterns.
Articulate the clinical research surrounding the effectiveness of yoga, mindfulness meditation, and theater in healing trauma in clients.

Overcoming Trauma-Related Shame and Self-Loathing with Janina Fisher, Ph.D.

Objectives

Discriminate the clinical implications of physiological and cognitive contributors to shame.
Determine cognitive-behavioral, ego state, and psychoeducational interventions to address shame in clients.