[Download Now] The Power of Play: Proven Strategies for Trauma and Attachment in Children & Adolescents – Clair Mellenthin

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• Interactive day of case examples, videos and hands-on techniques
• Rebuild trust in parent-child relationship
• Create developmentally appropriate trauma narratives
• Tools to decrease nightmares, flashbacks and intrusive thoughts

Children who have experienced trauma can benefit from play therapy. It is a place where they can be safe. Understand how to identify and manage distressing symptoms. And. Language should be given to what they are feeling. They are within their body and mind.

In this innovative workshop, we will explore how trauma impacts the brain, the resulting impact on the parent-child relationship, as well as how to effectively treat and resolve trauma symptoms using attachment-centered play therapy techniques.

You will observe and document how children are when you give them opportunities to work in a child-centered setting.

• Utilize gradual exposure
• Regulate affect
• Gain knowledge of their traumatic experiences
• Manage their experiences that can feel overwhelming or frightening

Powerful play therapy interventions are taught in this trauma-anchored model. It gives the child a safe, predictable environment for processing trauma and deepens metaphor work by increasing the child’s ability to explore the material they externalize. You will learn how to value children’s pacing, how to respect defensive strategies, and how to help children build alternative skills to cope with difficult thoughts, emotions and behaviors.

• Discover how trauma impacts brain development, and how play therapy can strengthen relationships and improve behavior.
• Describe three complex trauma warning signs and how to assess for them.
• Define areas of the brain affected by trauma and the resulting behavioral symptoms exhibited in children.
• Identify attachment wounds caused by trauma and what you can do- even in the most secure parent-child relationship.
• Discover how play therapy can help clients heal from and move beyond their personal trauma – letting go of their victim status and embracing their new role as a survivor.
• Define how attachment theory applies to play therapy and how to view family systems through the lens of attachment.
• Discover 5 play therapy techniques in becoming more competent and confident in engaging parents in family play therapy.
• Show an effective evidence-based play therapy technique that can treat trauma symptoms and can be used immediately with your child and family clients.

Attachment theory has a framework.

• Rethinking the Attachment Spectrum
• 4 Key concepts of Attachment Theory
• Creating safety in parent-child relationship

The relationship between the brain and behavior.

• Parts of the brain affected by trauma
• Regulatory processing and Executive functioning
• Impact on right brain and its behavioral consequence
• Warning signs of trauma
• Trauma impact on the parent-child relationship
• Behavior and emotional challenges

There are proven play therapy techniques that strengthen parent-child bonds.

• Decrease whining, clinging, angry, avoidant behaviors in child clients
• Improve family relationships and communication skills
• Rebuild trust in the parent-child relationship
• Promote whole-child and whole-brain healing

Attachment-Centered Therapy is used to treat trauma.

• Guided Imagery to teach distress tolerance
• Lemon Squeezies – Full Body Relaxation to reconnect with the body, decrease trauma symptoms
• My Many Colors of Me – Increase emotional intelligence and connect feelings to words instead of acting out behaviors
• Inside/Outside Box – Increase self-esteem and self-acceptance
• Telling My Story – Create age-appropriate trauma narratives
• Maximize the role of parents and caretakers
• Create hands-on tools to decrease trauma symptoms: flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, and nightmares

There are proven strategies for trauma and attachment in children and adolescents. There are proven strategies for trauma and attachment in children and adolescents. There are proven strategies for trauma and attachment in children and adolescents.