ONLINE, on-demand

5.5 CPD hours

Recording available for 12 months from date of purchase

Post-workshop support via a closed Facebook Group

PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is a recording of a live delivery.

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There is a quiet revolution emerging in Australia bringing play therapy and therapeutic play to the forefront of counselling interventions with traumatised children. Yet scepticism still exists about its effectiveness in working with the cognitive restructuring processes required in trauma recovery. Can we do it? Yes we can!

This workshop addresses this scepticism by shedding light on the therapeutic process – the ‘how’ play therapy works to facilitate cognitive restructuring that addresses shame-based self-schemas, strengthens self-concept and supports a child’s healthy emergence of self.

Key Learning Objectives:

1) Awareness of the theoretical orientations guiding play therapy practice with traumatised children – 3-phase trauma therapy framework, interpersonal neuroscience, and play therapy approaches.

2) Understand the development and neuroscience of shame-based negative self-schemas in traumatised children.

3) Understand the core components of Cognitive Restructuring in trauma therapy, and special considerations for children.

4) Identify specific play therapy techniques that address each component of the cognitive restructuring process.

5) Utilise a range of specific play therapy techniques to support a child’s cognitive reprocessing of negative self-schemas in the play therapy process.

6) Understand the neuroscience behind each play therapy technique discussed and how it works in the play therapy process.

TRAINER

Katherine Olejniczak – one of the elders of the play therapy field in Australia. Katherine is Director of Psychology and Play Therapy Australia.  She is an experienced psychologist, play therapist, supervisor, trainer, consultant, mentor and leader, and a published author.

Katherine is committed to the growth of play therapy in Australia and is a respected leader in this field. She developed Australia’s only current Play Therapy Supervisor Competencies and the first competency-based Play Therapy Supervisor Training in Australia.

She is also an AHPRA Psychology Board of Australia Approved Supervisor Trainer, and has two PsyBA supervisor masterclasses approved by the Board.

Her specific clinical and leadership interest areas include childhood trauma and recovery; play therapy; interpersonal neuroscience; and integrating interpersonal neuroscience into play therapy process, supervision and leadership development.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This workshop is essential for Play Therapists and also highly relevant for all clinicians who use play-based approaches in their therapy/counselling with traumatised children – e.g. psychologists, counsellors, social workers, etc.