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Attachment Centered Play Therapy: Repair Relational Trauma and Build Secure Attachment to Accelerate Family Treatment

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Objectives

  1. Evaluate how to introduce and maintain parent involvement in play therapy to promote a secure attachment.
  2. Demonstrate two attachment centered play therapy techniques to decrease aggression and defiance in children.
  3. Inspect generational attachment patterns and how these manifests in family-based play therapy.
  4. Analyze attachment theory as it applies to play therapy to provide integrated therapeutic treatment.
  5. Evaluate the four key concepts of attachment theory and how these concepts apply to attachment centered play therapy.
  6. Analyze various family systems through the lens of attachment theory to strengthen clinical assessment skills

Copyright : 08/02/2019

Play Therapy for Young Children: Innovative Attachment-Based Interventions to Treat Behavioral and Sensory Challenges

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Objectives

  1. Demonstrate at least 3 ways play therapy assessments are useful for setting therapeutic goals and treatment planning for your clients.
  2. Design 4 ways play therapy techniques can be used to form healthy attachments, attunement, and regulation in the children you work with.
  3. Build confidence in understanding and treating behaviors of infants and young children through play therapy.
  4. Determine 3 ways sandtray play therapy can quiet a child’s nervous system when dealing with sensitive issues.
  5. Devise the skills that are needed to teach parents and caregivers how to play with their child and how to make it a part of their daily routine.
  6. Characterize how play therapy can reframe trauma experiences, increase self-regulation and connect to a mind/body awareness.
  7. Assess the importance and ethical issues of therapeutic touch when implementing play therapy.

Copyright : 20/02/2019

Play Therapy for Tweens and Teens: Strategies to Build Rapport, Invite Emotional Expression, and Navigate the Unique Challenges of this Developmental Stage

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Objectives

  1. Facilitate verbal and nonverbal expressions of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in teens and tweens through the use of four or more play therapy interventions.
  2. Develop play therapy strategies that build resilience and self-esteem.
  3. Discover how play therapy can increase engagement and build therapeutic rapport within this dynamic developmental stage via play-based assessments and icebreakers.
  4. Evaluate the balance between both structure & freedom and independence & dependence, and learn at least four play therapy strategies to maintain this flow.
  5. Build confidence in teaching caregivers how to play with their adolescents, and how to make these experiences part of their daily routines.
  6. Integrate play therapy and traditional therapies to support the constant shifts in this developmental stage.

Copyright : 21/03/2019