Big Behaviors in small containers: 50 Trauma-informed Play Therapy Interventions for Disorders of Dysregulation
- Speaker:
- Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-S™
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 24 Minutes
- Language:
- Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Aug 28, 2024
- Product Code:
- POS059037
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Do parents come to you labelling their children as manipulative, out-of-control, disobedient, or shut down?
Believe it or not, you don’t need superhero powers in the play room to see the vulnerable, dysregulated child within.
This play therapy workshop will offer practical, fun, and immediately useful play therapy interventions for engaging the family in treatment planning and goal setting, augmenting adaptive coping, enhancing the healthy attachment between parent and child, help shift paradigms around problematic child behaviours and powerfully explain the stress response system.
Play therapy interventions for helping clients practice anger management, expand their emotional literacy, practice pro-social skills with family and friends, address their problematic thought life, and increase coherence in their narratives around hard things that have happened.
Credit
Program Information
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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.
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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.
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Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession.
Continuing education credit information is coming soon for this non-interactive self-study package.
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**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This self-study activity is approved for 6.0 credit hours.
PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 6.0 self-study continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement

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Course Level: Intermediate Format: recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
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Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Big Behaviors in small containers (48.4 MB) | 99 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| ASHA Instructions - Self Study (64.4 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Manual - Big Behaviors in small containers - French (7.9 MB) | 99 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Big Behaviors in small containers - Italian (7.9 MB) | 99 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Big Behaviors in small containers - German (7.9 MB) | 99 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Big Behaviors in small containers - Spanish (7.9 MB) | 99 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Additional Info
Program Information
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Objectives
- Demonstrate four play therapy areas of developmental derailment that can lead to dysregulation.
- Apply five play therapy interventions for enhancing the quality of attachment in parent/child dyads to your current caseload.
- Identify three play therapy metaphors to enhance psychoeducation related to our stress response systems to clients.
- Employ five play therapy interventions for identifying and shifting cognitive distortions.
- Utilise five play therapy-based clinical strategies for working with impulse control and anger management.
- Utilise five play therapy interventions for increasing self-regulation.
Outline
Case Examples will be woven throughout the presentation
Developmental Areas of Dysregulation in the Play Room
- Physiological/Somatic
- Emotional
- Cognitive
- Relational/Attachment Ruptures
- Introduction to key components of TraumaPlay®
- Cultural Biases, Risks, and Limitations of play therapy
Bottom-Up Brain Developmental and the power of Cross-Hemispheric Work
- Regulation
- Connection
- Learning
- Left Hemisphere Linguistics/Right Hemisphere Ways of Knowing
- Roles of the TraumaPlay® therapist
The Role of Parents as Partners in CoRegulation
- Reflecting on Attachment Styles/Creating Paradigm Shifts
- Sharing the SOOTHE Strategies
PLAY THERAPY INTERVENTIONS
Enhancing Safety and Augmenting Adaptive Coping
- The Coping Tree
- Cope Cakes
- Coping Menu
- Crowning Community
- Safe Place Sandtray
Enhancing Attachment
- Airplane Love Notes
- Love Links
- Stick Together Bookmarks
- Love Connectors
- Comfort Creatures
- Rupture and Repair
- Superhero Dyads
Understanding Our 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
- The PolyVagal Zoo
- Sleuth the Sloth
- Farmers and the Fainting Goat
Enhancing 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/Who Is Pressing Your Buttons
- Under the Eruption
- Alibaba and His Bucking Camel
- Are You Ready for the Boom
Emotional Literacy
- Color Your Heart
- Mood Manicure
- Feelings Soup
- Sands of Time
Addressing Cognitive Distortions
- Inner Critic/Inner Kindness
- Lose the Bruise
- Pick It Up or Lay It Down
- The Recycler and the Shredder
- Rigid Rob/Flexible Fred
- The Mistake Snake
Storykeeping: Holding Hard Stories and Building Coherent Narratives
- Puzzles with Parents
- Excavating Hard Things
- Secret Book Safes
- Sand in My Eyes/Google Eye Hop
- Walk It Through
Making a Meaningful Goodbye
- Graduation Caps
- Treatment Takeaways
- Family Flowerpot
- Parent Prizes/Love Letters for Later
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Counsellors
- Teachers
- School Administrators
- Nurses
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Physicians
- Occupational Therapists
- Play Therapists
- Other Helping Professionals who Work with Children
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