Creative Interventions for Children with Trauma

Trauma is locked in the body, and it's in the body that it must be accessed and healed.

Peter Levine

About the Workshop

Learn skills in working creatively, safely, respectfully and effectively with traumatised children and young people (including those with a sexual assault history). 

In this two x 3 hour live, online training you can practice evidence based therapies for managing trauma symptions in children including child-centred play therapy, PTSD play therapy, structured art exercises and solution-focussed approaches. Find ways to engage children who have experienced trauma and support them in senstive and developmental appropriate ways.

Case presentations will be used to illustrate types of trauma presentations and treatment interventions in both individual and group settings. Skill based activities will focus on intervention planning and group work activity design. This workshop provides practical, useful and interactive opportunities to expand your understanding of and ways of working with children with trauma.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Identify types and prevalence of trauma in children
• Consider assessment tools
• Review appropriate methods of intervention with children and families
• Consider the evidence
• See theory applied to case studies
• Practise creative intervention skills
• Integrate the use of creative therapies into the practice of counselling
• Learn in the safety and support of a small group environment

Who should attend:

Psychologists, social workers, school counsellors, case workers, child and family counsellors, mental health and pastoral workers, other allied health professionals and students of these disciplines with an interest in art therapy or play therapy who work with children. 

 
Workshop Facilitator

Jacki Short  - Counselling Psychologist, Registered Play Therapist

Workshop Details

Included in the workshop price:

• 6 CPD points/hours 
• Comprehensive Seminar Workbook
• Link to create Certificate of Attendance
• GST
• 9.30am - 12.30pm Training

Workshop Dates

11 - 12 August 2020 

9.30am - 12.30pm AEST

Workshop Cost

Special Price        $240

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