Using Play Therapy to Heal from Trauma with Ann Beckley-Forest

Course overview

April 25-27, 2022 LIVE WEBINAR The impact of both exposure to trauma and insecure attachment is now well understood to have a key role in most of the presenting problems for our child clients. As play therapists, we need a framework to help children move from either avoidant of these experiences or stuck in post-traumatic play. This two-day training builds on foundational play therapy skills to recognize the impact of trauma and how to help children digest trauma and difficult experiences to reduce their reactivity. Therapist will apply creative interventions and use the themes and metaphors of the childs play to gradually approach and process traumatic material. Presenter Bio: Ann Beckley-Forest is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Buffalo, New York, and has focused on interventions with children and adolescents throughout her career. She likes to say she became a registered play therapist because she never really grew up and loves having toys in her office! She is a registered play therapy supervisor and approved provider of play therapy education, and her specialties include intervention with very young children, as well as problems of attachment and work with adolescent and adult survivors of trauma. She is certified in EMDR, an EMDR Approved Consultant and a faculty member of the Child Trauma Institute. She trains locally and internationally and writes about the integration of EMDR and play therapy, and co-edited the recently released book EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room. Timeline: Mon, Tues and Weds, April 25th, 26th and 27th, 2022 9:30 am - 1:30 pm EST Learning Objectives: Analyze a current case using a phase model for traumainformed play therapy. Apply a play- therapy based approach to assessing for trauma history. Apply 3 strategies for emotional safety in and out of the play therapy room using a trauma-informed approach to Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT). Describe 5 themes in Child-Centered Play Therapy which may indicate post-traumatic play vs. developmentally expected play. Explain object-relations play therapy theory in metaphors which gradually approach traumatic material. Explain the mechanism of disrupted attachment and choose helpful attachment-promoting play therapy activities for children. Explain 3 steps to follow in helping children construct a trauma narrative to digest the trauma fully in a play therapy setting. Apply the principles of therapeutic storytelling to a current case. Select from 10 prescriptive play therapy activities to manage dissociation and hyperarousal in and out of session. To register for this LIVE ONLINE Workshop please visit: www.annbeckleyforest.com/current-trainings