The Healing Power of Play Therapy: Advance Your Trauma Treatment with Children & Adolescent (HS - LEFEBRE - 054265)

Course overview

Millions of traumatic events each year damage children emotionally and physiologically leaving them overwhelmed, unable to sleep, anxious, depressed, failing in school, angry and socially isolated. If left untreated, a child's developmental trajectory can be compromised. How do you as a professional get to the root of their pain? What do you do when words and language can't be accessed, when conventional interventions aren't enough? Watch trauma expert and play therapy supervisor, Dr. Jennifer Lefebre, in this experiential, interactive recording that will give you creative play therapy techniques and effective trauma-informed treatment strategies and interventions that are: Child-centered Playful Developmentally appropriate Culturally sensitive Integrate play therapy principles into the work you do with children in schools and therapeutic environments. Through the power of play, you can help children explore their traumatic memories, learn to manage experiences that are overwhelming, and formulate their narrative to process their trauma. Walk away with play therapy strategies to improve a child's ability to self-regulate while building their sense of competence and worth, furthering their abilities to relate with others and within their environments!