Taking a Play-based Trauma History with Children and Youth
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Clinicians who work with children who have been exposed to trauma and adversity often have a treatment plan which includes an effort to help the child to digest these experiences through exposure to the adverse events, whether through a trauma focused approach to play therapy or a trauma protocol such as EMDR or a combination of these. One of the challenges is to use play therapy techniques to develop a shared experience and language for this history as the initial step toward later reprocessing. This 2-hour learning module for clinicians offers an example of using a playful story and props to guide that process in a manner that will be well tolerated by the child. This “Bowl of Light” story-based intervention is appropriate for play therapy individualized assessment and EMDR (in Phase 1).
Introduction to Dissociation in Youth
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For many who first enter the field of dissociation and trauma, there is often not a great deal of information that describes the how children, teens and young adults are utilizing dissociative strategies in their daily life.
Part 1: The first webinar will provide information on how early attachment wounds from caregivers leads to dissociation and included are actual statements by dissociative child clients and caregivers who are witnessing the dissociative episodes.
Part 2: The second webinar teaches you about dissociated parts of self with basic information on structural dissociation and understanding victim self-states, protective and perpetrator parts with case examples and how to distinguish among them.
If EMDR trained, this can be used in Preparation Phase of EMDR. You do not have to be EMDR trained to purchase the self-paced webinars.
Creatively Identifying the Future
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Motivating clients to develop a future orientation is an essential process in providing a creative format for teens/adults to generate hope, a vision and reference for their future. Utilizing this intervention allows clients to dream and passionately envision their future desires and identify step by step tasks to reach their goals. This is an opportunity for the client to identify what they want, deserve and should expect in their lives. The approach includes several different creative arts and somatic opportunities for the client to have a felt sense of their future self. A future orientation is considered a Resource Development Installation (RDI) and can be utilized in phase one and two of EMDR therapy.
(This course does not offer play therapy credits)
Integrating EMDR and Play Therapy: Playful EMDR Innovative Solutions Volume I (12 CEs)
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This self-paced learning course for clinicians (must be previously trained in basic EMDR) highlights the innovative approaches of experienced clinicians using EMDR with children and integrating play therapy principles and practices. In this course, you will receive the full recordings and handouts from our first 4 Playful EMDR webinars featuring contributing authors from EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room (2020) and moderated by Ann Beckley-Forest and Annie Monaco. Topics in this course include: play therapy-based preparation phase (Fatih Thompson-Lee), integrating trauma-sensitive yoga (Jennifer Lefebre), EMDR and Synergetic Play Therapy (Lisa Dion and Jan Schaad), processing with anxious children (Alice Stricklin) , playful bilateral stimulation (Tyne Potgieter), and culturally relevant EMDR with Latinx children (Viviana Triana and Viviana Urdaneta).
Integrating EMDR and Play Therapy: Playful EMDR Innovative Solutions Volume 2 (12 CEs)
Previous completion of Volume 1 is NOT required
Purchase Course : $189.00
This self-paced learning course for clinicians (must be previously trained in basic EMDR) highlights the innovative approaches of experienced clinicians using EMDR with children and integrating play therapy principles and practices. In this course, you will receive the full recordings and handouts from 4 additional Playful EMDR webinars featuring contributing authors from EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room (2020) and moderated by Ann Beckley-Forest and Annie Monaco. Topics in this course include: integrating EMDR with art therapy (Elizabeth Davis), sandtray worlds for EMDR (Marshall Lyles), attachment targets (Roxanne Grobbel), interoception (Melissa LaVigne), EMDR and trauma-focused play therapy(Paris Goodyear-Brown), and strategies for involving parents in their child’s EMDR (Ann Beckley-Forest and Annie Monaco). Play therapists should note that of the 12 CE bundle, 10.5 CEs offered for play therapy — excludes the art therapy episode).
EMDR Storytelling Technique
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Only available to those who have completed basic training in EMDR.
EMDR Storytelling method is based on the work of Joan Lovett and is a way of including the caregiver in their child’s EMDR. 30 minute video exploring in depth the use of the storytelling technique for EMDR processing with children (includes animated session example). Not eligible for CEs.
An Introduction to EMDR with Kids
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By enrolling you are verifying that you have completed Basic training in EMDR.
Annie Monaco and Ann Beckley-Forest explain how their approach to Playful EMDR with children looks across the 8 phases. For EMDR clinicians only.