Big Behaviors in small containers: 50 Trauma-informed Play Therapy Interventions for Disorders of Dysregulation

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

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Objectives

1. Demonstrate four play therapy areas of developmental derailment that can lead to dysregulation.
2. Apply five play therapy interventions for enhancing the quality of attachment in parent/child dyads to your current caseload.
3. Identify three play therapy metaphors to enhance psychoeducation related to our stress response systems to clients.
4. Employ five play therapy interventions for identifying and shifting cognitive distortions.
5. Utilise five play therapy-based clinical strategies for working with impulse control and anger management.
6. 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