This webinar is full. A pre-recorded video version of the webinar is available for purchase by completing this registration form.
Overview
Format: Pre-Recorded Webinar
Accessible anytime for 1 year
Cost: CAD$450 + GST
CEU Credits: 13.5 Non-Contact CEUs
Follow up Q&A: 3 hour live webinar set up upon request. Contact Marie-José for more information.
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This 3-day pre-recorded webinar focuses on the use of Expressive Play Therapy to help children who have experienced multiple traumatic events within the context of pervasive and severe maltreatment – including different forms of abuse (emotional, physical, and sexual), neglect, and witnessing domestic violence.
The goal of this video series is to provide a compassionate understanding of the many layered clinical issues of children suffering from complex trauma and, based on such an understanding, to find practical ways of helping them strengthen themselves, begin to heal their wounds, and live more healthily in a reality that often cannot be changed.
After exploring the theoretical principles of Expressive Play Therapy as related to complex trauma, we will discuss the challenges of helping maltreated children first and foremost feel safe and grounded, so that they can be embodied enough to draw upon their own resources and use the healing power of creative play.
Through viewing multiple case examples and a videotaped session, we will consider how, starting from the child’s primary need, the therapist follows and guides the play, interweaving interventions that combine the multisensory gifts of nature, body centered exercises, imagery, and a variety of expressive play therapies. We will then examine how Expressive Play Therapy helps the child move from the traumatic play they initially engage in, to the creative play that allows them to discover their own unique way of safely transforming and integrating their traumatic experiences.