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The Healing Power of Play Therapy from Jennifer Lefebre

The Healing Power of Play Therapy Advance Your Trauma Treatment with Children & Adolescent from Jennifer Lefebre

Faculty:Jennifer Lefebre

Duration:6 Hours 26 Minutes | Format:Audio and Video

Archive : The Healing Power of Play Therapy from Jennifer Lefebre

Outline:

Neuroscience of Trauma and Attachment

Trauma & Attachment Theory
- Regulatory processing, executive functioning, memory and language
The Neuroscience of Play Therapy
- What Play Does for You and Your Brain, and
- What Happens to You if You Don’t Play
Neuroscience and Fight-or-Flight
- Parasympathetic / sympathetic nervous system
Trauma and Stress Disorders
- Classification, symptoms & labels
Current Evidence-Based Treatment
- Where are we stuck?

A New Clinical Framework – Integrating Evidenced Based Treatment with Play Therapy

Establishing safety and a sense of competence/worth
Appropriate attachments & relational engagement
Self-regulation (body & emotions)
Self-reflection & Introspection
Integration of Traumatic Experiences
(Acknowledgment & Processing of the trauma)
Future safety
Transitioning beyond the Trauma

Advancing Trauma Treatment with Play Therapy

Verbal vs Nonverbal responses
- How to recognize trauma without a verbal report
Bottom-up versus Top-down processing
- Embodied play & sensory integration rather than verbal strategies
Non-directive versus directive play therapy techniques – How to integrate both
- Widen the window of tolerance through up-regulating and down-regulating using embodied therapy activities

Play Therapy Activities

Psychoeducation of brain-body relationship
- Charades
- Flip your Lid
Target shame, self-doubt, and self-compassion
- Safe place sandtrays
- Drawings
- All About Me
Integrate traumatic experiences to acknowledge and process the trauma
- Narrative work through sandtrays
- Drawings
- Dramatic play
Target the parent-child relationship – Interpersonal reactivity and social skills
- Weather Massage
- Invisible String
- Family Sandtrays
- Drawings
Improve emotional and bodily regulation
- Be Spaghetti
- Trashballs
- Oobleck
- Feelings Maps
- Yoga
- Floor is Lava & more!

Satisfaction Guarantee

Description:

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!

Salepage : The Healing Power of Play Therapy from Jennifer Lefebre