Jennifer Lefebre – Trauma Treatment for Kids

Their trauma stays trapped in their body – they feel overwhelmed, they don’t sleep, they’re anxious, depressed, failing in school, angry and socially isolated.

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Jennifer Lefebre – Trauma Treatment for Kids

• Neuroscience of Childhood Trauma Trauma Theory
  • Fight-or-Flight (parasympathetic/sympathetic nervous system)
  • Attachment Theory
• Assessment
  • Complex Trauma
  • Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Reactive Attachment Disorder
  • Developmental Trauma Disorder
  • A new conceptualization and integrated clinical framework
• Essential Components for Trauma-Informed Treatments
  • Establishing safety and a sense of competence/worth
  • Appropriate attachments & relational engagement
  • Self-regulation (body & emotions)
  • Self-reflection & Introspection
  • Integration of traumatic experiences (acknowledgment & processing of the trauma)
  • Future safety ~ transitioning beyond the Trauma
• Body Based Treatment – Emotional and Behavioral Regulation
  • Verbal vs nonverbal responses – how to recognize trauma without verbal report
  • Bottom-up versus top-down processing – trauma starts in the body
  • Developmental needs of traumatized children
  • Embodied play & sensory integration – emotional and behavioral regulation
• Incorporating Play Therapy into Proven Evidence-based Treatments
  • Components that “fit” the child’s specific needs
  • TF-CBT- Trauma focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
  • CPP – Child Parent Psychotherapy
  • ARC – Attachment, Regulation, and Competency
  • TARGET – Trauma Adaptive Recovery Group Education Therapy
• Play Therapy Principles
  • Therapist establishes a friendly relationship
  • Accepts the child as he is
  • Creates a permissive relationship; child has freedom of expression
  • Validates (acknowledge and reflect) child’s feelings
  • Responsibility for decisions and change is left mostly to the child
  • Child directs the therapeutic process; therapist follows
  • Therapeutic interaction is not rushed
  • Limits are set only when necessary for child’s outcomes
• Advancing Trauma Treatment with Play Therapy
  • Non-verbal techniques
  • Sensory-based techniques
  • Culturally and developmentally appropriate techniques
• Play Therapy Strategies and Techniques
  • Integration of traumatic experiences to acknowledge and process the trauma: Sandtrays, drawings, & play
  • Target shame, self-doubt, and selfcompassion: Sandtray Safeplace & All About Me
  • Build an understanding of the brainbody relationship: Flip your lid and Charades
  • Target indiscriminate attachments and interpersonal reactivity: Invisible String & Family Sandtray
  • Improve emotional and bodily regulation: Stressballs, Be Spaghetti, Feelings Map, Trashballs, Yoga, and Weather Massage

Would you like to receive Jennifer Lefebre – Trauma Treatment for Kids ?

Description:

• Experiential learning through “a child’s language” – sensory, non-verbal and embodied play
• Improve self-regulation, attachments and relational engagement
• Increase the effectiveness of traditional trauma therapies
• Transform your work and enhance the capacity for healthy play among the youngest of trauma survivors

Traumatic events damage children emotionally and psychologically.

Their trauma stays trapped in their body – they feel overwhelmed, they don’t sleep, they’re anxious, depressed, failing in school, angry and socially isolated.

They are completely vulnerable.

How do you as a therapist get to the root of their pain? What do you do when words and language can’t be accessed, when conventional treatments aren’t enough?

Play is a child’s natural way to expose their trauma, formulate their narrative and begin to process the trauma.

Join trauma expert, Dr. Jennifer Lefebre in this experiential, interactive workshop and learn to speak the language of traumatized children!

• Integrate play therapy with trauma treatment to provide children engaging, developmentally appropriate and empirically validated treatment
• Use essential components of trauma treatment flexibly combined with sensory, non-verbal and embodied play to address interest and advance your work with kids
• Creative and effective treatment strategies to improve self-regulation, attachments and relational engagement, integrate traumatic experiences and build a sense of competence and worth
• Access a clinical framework to incorporate trauma theory, neuroscientific research and play therapy principles
• Increase the capacity for healthy play among the youngest of trauma survivors

Come breathe new life into your trauma treatment with kids!