Full Course Description
EMDR for Kids: Trauma-Informed Strategies for Young Clients and Their Grownups
“Children don’t get traumatized because they are hurt. They get traumatized because they’re alone with the hurt.” – Dr. Gabor Mate
Watch Christine Mark-Griffin, LCSW, certified EMDR clinician and EMDRIA-Approved Consultant, for this 3-hour training to learn how to help families unravel complex trauma together so they can heal from the past and repair their relationship. Through the powerful lens of EMDR, clinicians will learn to:
- Conceptualize complex trauma cases through the perspectives of both the child and the caregiver
- Assess and improve caregiver engagement in EMDR treatment alongside the child
- Reduce trauma-related symptoms
- Develop interventions for conjoint EMDR therapy sessions
- And more!
Program Information
Objectives
- Conduct psychoeducational sessions regarding the efficacy and format of EMDR with children and their caregivers.
- Develop trauma-informed case conceptualizations using the EMDR treatment paradigm for children and their caregivers.
- Utilize assessment and engagement strategies with children and their caregivers during conjoint EMDR therapy sessions.
Outline
Psychoeducation: Teaching Kids and Families about Trauma and EMDR
- How and why EMDR is helpful
- The Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Model
- 8 phases of EMDR; what to expect from treatment
- How trauma affects children and adults differently
- Interventions: The Tornado of Trauma, Windows of Tolerance
EMDR-Based Case Conceptualization: Integrating Child and Parent Perspectives
Learning the Story
- Holding different versions of the same story in the family
- Considering intergenerational trauma, attachment trauma and vicarious trauma
- Identifying target memories with kids and their grown ups
- Identifying common negative cognitions kids
- Identifying common negative cognitions for grownups in relation to child’s trauma
- A spectrum of parent involvement in therapy treatment
- Interventions: Graphing Strengths & Targets, Preparation for Story Telling Technique
Setting the Goals
- How to develop individual and shared goals for children and caregivers
- Interventions: The Miracle Question, Future Templating
Regulate, Repair, Reprocess: EMDR Strategies for Children and Their Grown-ups
- Developmental modifications for the EMDR standard protocol
- Collateral EMDR therapy for parents to target memories that interfere with responsible parenting and a secure attachment
- Interventions To Regulate: Magical Cord of Love, Singing Songs
- Interventions to Repair :I’ve got your back, Helping with Ouches
- Interventions to Reprocess: Story Telling Technique, Back and Forth Together
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- School Social Workers
- School Counselors
Copyright :
05/04/2023
EMDR & Play Therapy: A Multimodal Approach for Children
EMDR therapy is a powerful evidence-based approach for children. However, the use of EMDR therapy procedural steps require that we make them developmentally appropriate for children. This session will address the integration between EMDR therapy and play in the sand tray. Sandtray based EMDR therapy is grounded on Gomez’ Multimodal approach to EMDR therapy where movement, dance, play therapy, Sandtray, expressive arts, parts work, polyvagal focused strategies, and parent child interventions, among others are masterfully integrated into the eight phases of EMDR therapy. The work to understand and create the union between EMDR, play therapy and Sandtray therapy is the product of 20 years of dedication and work. This session will provide an overview of initial phases of treatment as well as the various levels of distance offered by Sandtray work within EMDR therapy structure.
Program Information
Objectives
- Demonstrate the three levels of distance offered by Sandtray work within EMDR therapy.
- Determine play therapy and Sandtray strategies during initial phases of EMDR treatment to stabilize and build capacities.
- Design Sandtray and play therapy strategies during processing phases of EMDR therapy to work with blocked processing.
- Evaluate and describe the multimodal approach to EMDR therapy with children and their parents where EMDR-Sandtray play therapy is rooted and founded.
Outline
- 3 Levels of Distance Using EMDR Therapy and Sandtray
- Strategies for Initial and Processing Phases of EMDR Treatment
- Extensive Lens to View Client’s Clinical Landscape
- Treatment Planning Specific Activities
- Play, Movement, Expressive Arts and Polyvagal
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Mental Health Clinicians
- Play Therapists
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- School Counselors
- Social Workers
Copyright :
05/11/2022
The Self-Protective System of Children with Complex Trauma: Removing Barriers to Treatment with EMDR, Play Therapy & More!
Children affected by chronic trauma present with pervasive challenges in affect regulation, interoception and exteroception awareness.
And without adequate experiences of co-regulation, children with complex trauma become phobic of their own emotions perceiving them as dangerous leading to adaptations of trauma related phobias and rigid forms of self-protection—avoidance, control, pleasing, idealization and more – that block the healing of the very wounds they’re trying to protect.
Join Ana Gomez, world-renowned expert on the treatment of complex trauma as she shows you how to remove barriers to treatment by incorporating EMDR therapy, play therapy, parts work, and Sandtray therapy. You’ll discover the multiple pathways in which defenses are formed and the therapeutic portals into the protective system so the child can access their inner world and experiences to begin the healing.
If this system is not embraced, if defenses are not embraced and addressed, you risk the potential for therapy to become stagnant and impact the child’s therapeutic outcomes.
Don’t miss this opportunity to get the strategies you need to work around the entrenched forms of self-protection and move treatment forward!
Program Information
Objectives
- Cite the factors that lead to the formation of trauma related phobias and adaptation.
- Identify the relationship between trauma related phobias, interoception, exteroception and affect regulation in children and the formation of rigid forms of self-protection.
- Demonstrate a wide range of trauma derived mechanisms of protection
- Utilize Play therapy, parts work, Sandtray therapy and EMDR therapy strategies to work with children’s self-protective system
Outline
Trauma Related Phobias and Adaptations
Formation of Rigid Self-Protection
Avoidance, Attachment to Perpetrator, Pleasing...
Working with Children’s Self-Protective System
Strategies to Build Roads into the Trauma Networks
- Play Therapy, Parts Work, Sandtray & EMDR
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- School Administrators
- Teachers/School-Based Personnel
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
08/02/2023
Making Mindfulness Stick with Children and Teens: A Practical Approach
As we emerge into a new normal of the pandemic, so many children and teens are looking for more skills to self-regulate challenging emotions. When we can effectively introduce mindfulness-based resilience and regulation into our sessions, we empower kids to transform themselves, allowing them to identify and regulate their emotions and attention using fun, effective exercises. In this recording, you’ll discover ways to share powerful mind-body practices that can immediately engage kids who are struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, and more. You’ll explore how to:
- Present mindfulness in creative ways that break through resistance and maximize engagement both in and out of the clinical hour
- Use specific strategies to tailor mindfulness to a diagnosis and development
- Share dozens proven practices that help children with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other common presenting concerns
- Discover the exciting neuroscience behind mindfulness and ways to share that information with kids and families
Program Information
Objectives
- Demonstrate how to effectively communicate a clear definition of mindfulness in a clinical setting.
- Evaluate the stress response as it relates to mental health and behavior.
- Categorize three mental health issues in children and adolescents that mindfulness techniques can help treat.
- Practice at least four breath regulation techniques to share with children or teens.
- Apply at least four mindfulness and related techniques in session with child and adolescent clients.
- Demonstrate how to explain some of the simpler research and neuroscience behind mindfulness.
Outline
- What is Mindfulness really?
- Mindfulness without meditation
- Adapting mindful skills for children and teens
- Engaging children and teens in mindful awareness for creating change beyond the therapy room
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/13/2022
EMDR & Trauma-Informed Yoga for Kids: Integrative Practices for the Mind, Body, and Heart
What if you could combine the healing powers of trauma-informed yoga & EMDR therapy to help children of all ages?
In this workshop you’ll learn how trauma-informed yoga and EMDR can be complimentary offerings for children to process and heal from trauma in their minds, bodies & hearts.
Join Zabie Yamasaki, M.Ed., RYT and author of children’s book “Your Joy is Beautiful” (小蝌蚪视频 Publishing & Media 2023) and Christine Mark-Griffin, LCSW and author of “EMDR Workbook for Kids” (小蝌蚪视频 Publishing & Media 2023) to learn how to maximize children’s capacity for healing.
You’ll discover approaches to help children:
- Gain insight and strengthen their mind
- Increase emotional regulation and align with expressing what is in their hearts
- Utilize movement to enhance physical strength and attunement to their bodies
Zabie and Christine will share a variety of child-friendly approaches and practices for kids to feel empowered in their healing process while strengthening their emotional, physical, mental, spiritual and interpersonal skills.
Program Information
Objectives
- Apply the lens of EMDR and Trauma-Informed Yoga to their clinical work with children.
- Design a program or curriculum that integrates the phases of EMDR and the frameworks of Trauma-Informed Yoga.
- Utilize somatic-based modalities and practices into the scope of their clinical work.
Outline
Brief Overview of the Frameworks
- Kid Friendly Explanation of the 8 Frameworks of Trauma-Informed Yoga
- Kid Friendly Explanation of the 8 phases of EMDR
Integrative Child Friendly Practices for Healing the Mind, Body and Heart with EMDR & Yoga
- Getting prepared
- Breathwork and mindfulness
- Supporting kids who are triggered
- Cultural considerations and accessibility
- Help children gain insight and strengthen their minds
- Safe Calm Place,
- Identifying Unhelpful & Helpful Thoughts
- Psychoeducation about Window of Tolerance
- Surrender Bowl
- Tuning into Exteroceptive Sensations
- Increase emotional regulation and align with expressing what is in their hearts
- Resource Development Intervention - Happy Place
- Chakra for Kids & Inner light meditation
- Take what you need board & intention stones
- Utilize movement to enhance physical strength and attunement to their bodies
- Child friendly body scans
- Games and activities for bilateral stimulation and discharging stress
- Increasing body awareness + helping with ouches
- Vinyasa – flow yoga
- EMDR Back & Forth movement to move the trauma out & move the healing in
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- School Administrators
- Teachers/School-Based Personnel
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
08/02/2023
Superheroes and Video Games: Creating Epic Adventures in Child & Adolescent Therapy
Video games can transport us to worlds beyond our imagination. A board game can send us on an epic adventure and fulfilling side quests, while the origin stories found within a comic book can offer a powerful analogy to frame our own experiences. Integrating a client’s interests in play therapy can nurture rapport building, encourage creativity, and can provide a safe distance to process emotions and gain perspective. Geek Therapy is an affinity-based model of therapeutic intervention and communication based on the theory that the best way to understand each other, and ourselves, is through the media we care about. This recording will define and explore the Geek Therapy model created by Josué Cardona and provide case studies with directive and non-directive play therapy interventions presented by Registered Play Therapist Sophia Ansari, to bridge theory with practice. Geeking out is highly encouraged!
Program Information
Objectives
- Apply the three components of the Geek Therapy model to improve case conceptualization.
- Integrate client interests and affinities in play therapy to encourage rapport building, social connection, and exploration.
- Practice play therapy interventions using the Geek Therapy mindset and explore related resources in your play therapy practice to improve clinical outcomes.
Outline
- Incorporate your Client’s Interests
- Video games, comic books, anime, and MORE into play therapy
- Therapeutic Power of Storytelling
- Help clients discover they are the heroes of their own stories
- Explore the Dynamic and Engaging World of Video Games within play therapy
- Minecraft and other Video Games are the New Virtual Sandtray
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Mental Health Clinicians
- Play Therapists
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- School Counselors
- Social Workers
Copyright :
05/12/2022