[Download Now] Attachment Centered Play Therapy: Repair Relational Trauma and Build Secure Attachment to Accelerate Family Treatment – Clair Mellenthin

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When trauma, grief, and loss disrupt the family system, a child may feel left out and at times break the attachment bond. Children who don’t have the words to express how they feel are more likely to display the hurt in maladaptive ways. Shame is a factor for the parent. They can’t parent away the hurt and the misbehavior because their love isn’t good enough.

How can we help families rebuild their lost connection?

Attachment Centered Play Therapy includes the parents in the therapy process. Attachment wounds, trauma, grief and loss can be addressed with the help of the parent.

Aholistic, systemic approach to address is brought by this method.

• Vulnerability to acknowledge the hurt, and the roadblocks
• Challenging issues of shame, vulnerability, grief, and loss
• Aggression and defiance and other maladaptive behavioral issues
• Attachment centered and proactive strategies instead of reactivity or reactive responses
• Repairing and strengthening the bonds of attachment between parent and child
• Parents becoming a resource, as well as coregulator for their child
• Rapport building with parents (this is a MUST in child and family therapy)

You will learn new and innovative attachment-centered play therapy techniques that include hands on activities, guided imagery, and sand tray interventions, as well as techniques assessing family relationships, bonds of attachment, and family dynamics.

We will explore difficult cases, ask questions, develop new assessment skills, and explore styles of attachment with our clients.

1. Evaluate how to introduce and maintain parent involvement in play therapy to promote a secure attachment.
2. Demonstrate two attachment centered play therapy techniques to decrease aggression and defiance in children.
3. Conceptualize generational attachment patterns and how these manifests in family-based play therapy.
4. Analyze attachment theory as it applies to play therapy to provide integrated therapeutic treatment.
5. Evaluate the four key concepts of attachment theory and how these concepts apply to attachment centered play therapy.
6. Analyze various family systems through the lens of attachment theory to strengthen clinical assessment skills

Family treatment can be improved with play therapy.

• 4 key concepts of attachment
• Blending attachment theory with play therapy
• Attachment patterns across the lifespan and impact on parent/child relationship
• Risks and limitations

Parents are invited to play.

• Engagement strategies to strengthen parent/child relationship
  • Roadblocks and triggers – parent/child/therapist
  • Shame and vulnerability – shame shields
  • Build rappaport and make room for parent in the playroom
    • Sand tray, genograms, play-based treatment planning
  • Establish boundaries and set expectations
  • Encourage participation

Play Therapy Strategies for Attachment Centered.

• Treatment of relational trauma – Attachment, wounding and ruptures
  • Parent/child relationship cycle
  • Generational attachment patterns –
    • Catch me if you can
    • Butterfly fly away
    • Two hands
    • Empowerment collage

There are cases of abuse and healing attachment wounds.

Challenging emotional and behavioral disorders.

• Defiance, ODD, moodiness, anger, aggressiveness and school refusal
• Attachment injuries at root of undesirable behavior
• Prescriptive play therapy interventions
• Self-regulation, co-regulation
• calm down jars, guided imagery

Extreme Defiance and School Refusal cases have been studied.

Positive attachment-based parenting can be promoted with strategies.

• Maximize parent involvement to rebuild trust, repair injuries
• Proactive vs reactive parenting
• Get parent buy in

There is a case study of proactive parenting.

There is a review about Attachment Centered Play Therapy: repair trauma and build secure attachment to accelerate family treatment. Attachment Centered Play Therapy can be used to repair trauma and build attachment. There is a discount on Attachment Centered Play Therapy.