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Trauma Treatment for Kids - Healing the Body Through Play: Advanced Interactive Workshop
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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
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15/02/2018
The Ethics of Touch in Child Psychotherapy & Play Therapy
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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
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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.
Copyright :
02/09/2014
Overcoming Trauma-Related Shame and Self-Loathing with Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
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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.
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09/12/2013