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Attachment Centered Play Therapy: Repair Relational Trauma and Build Secure Attachment to Accelerate Family Treatment
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Objectives
- Evaluate how to introduce and maintain parent involvement in play therapy to promote a secure attachment.
- Demonstrate two attachment centered play therapy techniques to decrease aggression and defiance in children.
- Inspect generational attachment patterns and how these manifests in family-based play therapy.
- Analyze attachment theory as it applies to play therapy to provide integrated therapeutic treatment.
- Evaluate the four key concepts of attachment theory and how these concepts apply to attachment centered play therapy.
- Analyze various family systems through the lens of attachment theory to strengthen clinical assessment skills
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08/02/2019
Play Therapy for Young Children: Innovative Attachment-Based Interventions to Treat Behavioral and Sensory Challenges
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Objectives
- Demonstrate at least 3 ways play therapy assessments are useful for setting therapeutic goals and treatment planning for your clients.
- Design 4 ways play therapy techniques can be used to form healthy attachments, attunement, and regulation in the children you work with.
- Build confidence in understanding and treating behaviors of infants and young children through play therapy.
- Determine 3 ways sandtray play therapy can quiet a child’s nervous system when dealing with sensitive issues.
- 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.
- Characterize how play therapy can reframe trauma experiences, increase self-regulation and connect to a mind/body awareness.
- 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
- Facilitate verbal and nonverbal expressions of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in teens and tweens through the use of four or more play therapy interventions.
- Develop play therapy strategies that build resilience and self-esteem.
- Discover how play therapy can increase engagement and build therapeutic rapport within this dynamic developmental stage via play-based assessments and icebreakers.
- Evaluate the balance between both structure & freedom and independence & dependence, and learn at least four play therapy strategies to maintain this flow.
- Build confidence in teaching caregivers how to play with their adolescents, and how to make these experiences part of their daily routines.
- Integrate play therapy and traditional therapies to support the constant shifts in this developmental stage.
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21/03/2019