2-Day Big Behaviors in ALL Containers: 75+ Trauma-Informed Interventions for Dysregulated Children and the Adults Who Support Them

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Paris Goodyear-Brown, PhD, LCSW, RPT-S™ Related seminars and products

Nurture House

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Paris Goodyear-Brown, PhD, LCSW, RPT-S™ and approved EMDR consultant, is the creator of TraumaPlay™, the executive director of the TraumaPlay Institute, the clinical director of Nurture House, and an adjunct instructor of psychiatric mental health at Vanderbilt University. She is a Ted Talk speaker, a master clinician, a thought leader in the fields of child trauma and play therapy globally, has received the APT award for Play Therapy Promotion and Education, and served as the executive director of the Lipscomb Play Therapy and Expressive Arts Center. She is on the board of TNAPT and has written over twenty chapters and articles as well as twelve books, including Trauma and Play Therapy, Parents as Partners in Child Therapy, Big Behaviors in Small Containers, and her newest edited volume Polyvagal Power in the Playroom. Paris delights in serving traumatized children and families locally, loves to travel with her family, and finds great joy in equipping child trauma therapists all over the world.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Paris Goodyear-Brown maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with TraumaPlay Institute, Vanderbilt University, and Nurture House. She receives royalties as a published author and compensation as a consultant. Paris Goodyear-Brown receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Paris Goodyear-Brown is a member of the Association for Play Therapy and the National Association of Social Workers.

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Program Information

You will have access for 90 days after the program for review. For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. Please note that this requirement may vary by credit type. Please see detailed credit information for specific requirements for each credit type.

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.

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Objectives

1. Identify three ways trauma, adversity, and attachment disruptions contribute to challenging behaviors in children and adolescents. 
2. Differentiate between behavior management approaches and healing-centered, trauma-informed interventions when responding to dysregulated behaviors. 
3. Apply five play therapy-based strategies that increase felt safety, co-regulation, and trust within the parent-child relationship. 
4. Identify four caregiver factors that influence a child's regulation, attachment security, and behavioral functioning. 
5. Choose five play therapy interventions that support the development of coherent narratives and trauma-informed story processing. 
6. Utilize five play therapy interventions designed to increase caregiver reflective functioning and enhance parent-child co-regulation. 
7. Identify four play therapy areas of developmental derailment that can lead to dysregulation.  
8. Apply five play therapy interventions to enhance the quality of attachment in parent/child dyads.  
9. Identify three play therapy metaphors to enhance psychoeducation for clients related to stress response systems.  
10. Choose five play therapy interventions for identifying and shifting cognitive distortions.  
11. Utilize five play therapy-based clinical strategies for working with impulse control and anger management.  
12. Utilize five play therapy interventions for increasing self-regulation. 

Outline

Understanding Big Behaviors Through a Relational Lens  

• Big behaviors as communication  
• Regulation before reasoning  
• Needs beneath the behavior  
• Developmental areas of dysregulation  
  • Physiological/Somatic  
  • Emotional  
  • Cognitive  
  • Relational/Attachment  
  • Sensory Processing  
  • Developmental Trauma and Adversity  
• TraumaPlay® foundations  
  • Regulation  
  • Connection  
  • Felt Safety  
  • Co-Regulation  
• Bottom-Up Brain Development  
  • Right Brain Before Left Brain  
  • Cross-Hemispheric Integration  
  • Regulation → Connection → Learning  
• Cultural Considerations, Biases, Risks, and Limitations of Play Therapy  

Becoming a Safe Boss

Building Safety Through Structure, Boundaries, and Need Meeting  

• Attachment styles and paradigm shifts  
• Repair over perfection  
• Co-regulation versus behavior management  

Safe Boss Interventions  

• Safe Boss, Boundaries, and VR Headsets  
• The Three Roots of Discipline  
• Trust vs. Control Foundation  
• The Choosing Mind Concept  
• Learning to Self-Soothe  
• Coregulation for Caregivers  
• The SOOTHE Strategies  
• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall  
• Bottom-Up Boardgames  
• Two Choices  
• Lowering the Ladder  
• Setting the Bar  
• Rerouting  
• Becoming a Safe Boss: Increasing Trust Through Need Meeting  
• Triune Brain Handout  
• Strong Eyes  

Becoming a Nurturer

Strengthening Attachment and Co-Regulation  

• Understanding attachment stories  
• Recognizing triggers and overwhelm  
• Building reflective capacity  
• Family rituals of connection  
• Emotional safety and family resilience  

Nurturer Interventions - Delighting-In Games to Enhance Attachment

• Airplane Love Notes  

• Love Links  
• Comfort Creatures  
• Love Connectors  
• Superhero Dyads   
• Nurture Nooks  
• Delighting-In Dice  
• Stick Together Squigz  
• Joey Jumps  
• Meet in the Middle  
• Sweet Dreams Lotion Potion

Making a Meaningful Goodbye

Facilitating Therapeutic Closure

• Graduation Caps
• Treatment Takeaways
• Family Flowerpot
• Parent Prizes
• Love Letters for Later

Understanding the Child's Internal World  

Stress Response System  

• WOT R You Doing?  
• Who Is Amy G. Dala?  
• What Is Amy G. Saying Now?  
• Soothing Amy G.  
• Head of a Pin  
• Polyvagal Zoo  
• Farmers and the Fainting Goat  
• Sleuth the Sloth  

Emotional Literacy  

• Color Your Heart  
• Mood Manicure  
• Feelings Soup  
• Sands of Time  

Self-Regulation  

• Hum Bugs  
• Still-the-Struggle Socks  
• Zip-but Don't Flip  
• A Mindful Meal  
• Finessing the Feel  
• Yoga Tunes  

Impulse Control and Anger Management  

• Troubling Task Timer  
• Count the Cost  
• Anger Buttons  
• Under the Eruption  
• Alibaba and His Bucking Camel  
• Are You Ready for the Boom?  

Cognitive Flexibility  

• Inner Critic/Inner Kindness  
• Lose the Bruise  
• Pick It Up or Lay It Down  
• Recycler and the Shredder  
• Rigid Rob/Flexible Fred  
• Mistake Snake  

Becoming a Storykeeper  

Holding Hard Stories and Building Coherent Narratives  

• Creating coherent narratives  
• Helping caregivers hold hard stories  
• Trauma-informed narrative development  
• Increasing caregiver reflective functioning  

Storykeeper Interventions  

• Puzzles with Parents  
• Excavating Hard Things  
• Secret Book Safes  
• Threading the Needle Backwards  
• Scary Stories vs. Nurturing Narrations  
• Bring It in the Room  
• Narrative Dominoes  
• Rupture and Repair  
• At Arm's Length  

Somatic Storykeeping  

• Homunculus  
• Monster Ears  
• Walk It Through  
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil  
• Sand in My Eyes  
• Google Eye Hop  

Supporting Caregiver Reflection and Regulation  

• Working with Negative Activation of the Caregiver  
• Coregulation Through Chemistry  
• Neurochemical Boxing Match  
• Cortisol Cues  
• Oxytocin Offerings  
• Child's Felt Sense of Parental ANS States  
• Mindful Mantras  
• Threat Level Assessment  
• When Parts of the Parent Trigger Parts of the Child, and Vice Versa  
• Reflective Attachment Work Exercise  
• Parts Work: Parental Protector Parts  
• Parts Playground/Community Courtyard  

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Physicians
• Other Helping Professionals working with kids