Description

Handouts

Outline

Introduction: Ice breaker activity

Building Healthy Relationships: Attachment Theories

• Video on neuroscience of attachment and the brain
• Mary Ainsworth: 4 types of attachment styles
• Bolby Attachment Theory
• Video of Still Face experiment
• Group activity

Infant & Child Development Theory

• Maternal mental health
• Freud, Erikson, Piaget and Mahler
• Video: marshmallow test with children ages 3-5

Why Play?

• Evidence supporting benefit of play
• Therapeutic powers of play
• Group activity

Play Therapy

• Getting started
• Therapeutic benefit
• Limitations & potential risks
• Assessment and treatment
  • What is the need behind the behavior?
  • What does the behavior tell us?
  • What are the skills behind the behavior?

Engaging Children in Play

• Neurobiology of play
• Repair of developmental trauma
• Tools for self-regulation
• What is needed for a play therapy room: the basics
• From intake to termination
• An ongoing process

Creative Play Therapy Interventions for:

• Sensory
• Aggression
• Anxiety
• Sensory Processing D/O
• Enuresis
• Trauma/Grief
• Nightmare/Sleep Disorders
• Hyperactivity
• Divorce

Play Therapy and Techniques

• Non-directive play
  • Client-centered play therapy
  • Sandtray
  • Art & music
  • Dolls and dollhouse
  • Case study and video

Developmental Play Therapy Ethical Issues of Therapeutic Touch

• Intro to Dr. Courtney’s FirstPlay® Kinesthethic Storytelling Infant Massage®
• FirstPlay® – Demonstration with baby dolls
• Becky Baily: Baby doll groups and “I love you rituals”
• Developmentally-appropriate songs and games

Directive Techniques

• Fun with Feathers
• Puppet play
• 6 Senses Safe Place
• Superpowers
• Fun with Food
• Bubble Tennis
• Pooh/Inside-Out Feelings
• Favorite books and interventions
• Casey’s Greatness Wings
• Greatness Sticks®
• Sandtray Interventions
• Mindful Freeze Dance
• Wiggle out the sillies
• Sandtray play therapy

Case Studies will be shared throughout the workshop when introducing interventions to participants, so you will get real life examples of the therapeutic value of my most beloved play therapy interventions I use with young children.

Group Activity: creative reflection exercise

Final Community Activity

Faculty

Tammi Van Hollander, LCSW, RPT

Owner

Main Line Play Therapy

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Tammi Van Hollander, LCSW, RPT-S, is a licensed clinical social worker, registered play therapist supervisor, and owner of Main Line Play Therapy in Bryn Mawr. PA. She is an international speaker and play advocate. Her work and creative interventions in the field of play therapy have been published and internationally recognized. She is an Advanced Certified Trainer for the Nurtured Heart Approach®, and a Certified FirstPlay® Practitioner.

Tammi is a founding board member of The World Association for Sand Therapy Professionals. She specializes in sand tray play therapy, sensory integration and attachment, working with children, families, and adults of all ages. She’s the author of Casey’s Greatness Wings and creator of Greatness Sticks© & Greatness Cards. Tammi is a sought-after expert for speaking engagements, podcasts and webinars.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Tammi Van Hollander is the owner of Main Line Therapy, LLC. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-Financial: Tammi Van Hollander is a member of the Association for Play Therapy.