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Future Play: Solution Focused Play Therapy with Children and Families
April 21, 2022 @ 9:00 am – 4:30 pm MDT
Virtual Event ~6 CEUs
$65.00 – $150.00
- Shrinking the Worry Monster: Treating Children and Anxiety
- Most therapists who work with children and their families have clients of all ages in their caseload who present for treatment with anxiety symptoms. Typically, parents call with a range of presenting concerns including school refusal, separation anxiety, behavioral outbursts, somatic complaints, sleeping difficulties, and social anxiety.
- Confidently and effectively communicate with children during your face-to-face and teleconferencing sessions
- Effective communication skills tailored to children and parents. You will practice simple therapeutic play activities Gain new or renewed strategies for engaging parents. Hands-on take home ideas for effective play therapy
- Hopeful Conversations Around Trauma
- Trauma recovery, hope, and resilience in children & teens. Practical, solution-focused strategies for managing flashbacks, triggers, and post-trauma responses. By inviting clients to expand the traumatic event to include helpful responses and strategies, we expose new, valuable information to reflect on or flashback on.
This interactive, online workshop will give attendees hands-on tools for working with children and anxiety, trauma, family disruption, and more. Through simple play activities and discovery, attendees will learn to use toys and activities as conversational tools to not only increase client engagement, but to design the ideal future and move towards it. Attendees will leave with step-by-step tools and strategies for effective therapeutic outcomes with children and families.
You won’t want to miss out on this workshop.
Future Play turns conversations toward the future in words and concrete actions. This innovative play therapy technique is effective, brief, and future-oriented. Creatively amplify a child’s own solutions. Video, discussion, and hands-on play. Ideal for therapists who want to apply solution-focused principles and strategies to play therapy with children. See a quick video on the topic.
