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Digital Seminar

Big Behaviors in Small Containers: Trauma Informed Play Therapy Interventions for Dysregulation


Faculty:
Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-S™
Duration:
1 Hour 33 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
13 May, 2022
Product Code:
POS058940
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

When it comes to working with children, sometimes the biggest behaviours come in the smallest containers. Sometimes these behaviors are externalizing (screaming, crying, hitting) and sometimes these are internalizing (anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation). So often, the focus of treatment in these instances becomes about extinguishing the behaviour without understanding what is driving it in the first place. Whether the end result involves a child shutting down or shouting out, it is critical that helping professionals be able to answer this key question: What is the need underlying the behaviour?

This recording will offer more than a dozen practical, fun, and immediately useful play therapy interventions that engage the family in setting treatment goals, augmenting adaptive coping, enhancing the healthy attachment between parent and child while helping them shift paradigms around problematic child behaviours. Powerful exploration of the stress response system using play therapy helps clients increase anger management skills, expand emotional literacy, practice pro-social skills with family and friends, address their difficult thoughts, and increase coherence in their trauma narratives.

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Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-S™ and approved EMDR consultant, is the creator of TraumaPlay™, the executive director of the TraumaPlay Institute, the clinical director of Nurture House, and an adjunct instructor of psychiatric mental health at Vanderbilt University. She is a Ted Talk speaker, a master clinician, a thought leader in the fields of child trauma and play therapy globally, has received the APT award for Play Therapy Promotion and Education, and served as the executive director of the Lipscomb Play Therapy and Expressive Arts Center. She is on the board of TNAPT and has written over twenty chapters and articles as well as twelve books, including Trauma and Play Therapy, Parents as Partners in Child Therapy, Big Behaviors in Small Containers, and her newest edited volume Polyvagal Power in the Playroom. Paris delights in serving traumatized children and families locally, loves to travel with her family, and finds great joy in equipping child trauma therapists all over the world.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Paris Goodyear-Brown maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with TraumaPlay Institute, Vanderbilt University, and Nurture House. She receives royalties as a published author and compensation as a consultant. Paris Goodyear-Brown receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Paris Goodyear-Brown is a member of the Association for Play Therapy and the National Association of Social Workers.


Objectives

  1. Evaluate disorders of dysregulation through the lens of bottom-up brain development and through a trauma-informed lens.
  2. Extrapolate polyvagal theory to children and families through play therapy interventions.
  3. Execute a play therapy intervention that can be used to target movement in each of ten separate areas of dysregulation.

Outline

  • Translating disorders of dysregulation into treatment goals
  • Understanding the neurobiology of play, the neurobiology of trauma, and the power of one to heal the other
  • Play therapy metaphors for working with our stress response systems
  • A Dozen Powerful Play Therapy Interventions for Enhancing Regulation, Strengthening Attachment, and Telling the Trauma Story

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Mental Health Clinicians
  • Play Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • School Counselors
  • Social Workers

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