How To Take a Strategic Approach to Play Therapy with Traumatized Children

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Have you ever wondered which approach works best with children who are traumatized?

Or maybe you’ve wondered what techniques are used in trauma therapy?

Working with children and adolescents who have experienced trauma requires child and adolescent mental health professionals to understand a variety of factors impacting treatment decision making, especially if you’re wondering 👇

How can play therapy help children with trauma?

To answer this question, you need to consider a variety of factors that influence your ability to identify the extent of the problems your clients are experiencing.

Here are just a few things you can consider for your case conceptualization process:

💥 impact of the traumatic experience on your young client

💥age of the child and age when the traumatic experience occurred

💥ability for the child’s environment to support their healing

All of these factors will be influenced by how you conceptualize the problem based on your theoretical model and how your theoretical model facilitates access to the therapeutic powers of play.

Play therapy is grounded in a theoretical model and your theoretical model dictates how to apply that model within the context of a therapeutic relationship to facilitate healing for your traumatized clients.

But - it’s not just about learning a play therapy theory model and applying it.

It’s also important to ensure you walk through the case conceptualization process so you’re clear how your play therapy treatment approach can help your young clients heal and how to integrate parents in the healing process.

In this week’s episode, I’ll discuss three questions you need to answer when you’re figuring out how to strategically help your traumatized clients using play therapy.

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1. How To Take a Strategic Approach to Play Therapy with Traumatized Children (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:00:01)

3. Today's topic (00:00:49)

4. About Cathi (00:01:50)

5. What is Your Case Conceptualization? (00:07:46)

6. How Does Your Case Conceptualization Inform Treatment Planning? (00:13:43)

7. How Will Your Play Therapy Model Facilitate Healing? (00:20:34)

8. Recap of today's discussion (00:25:25)

9. Resources (00:30:25)

10. Outro (00:32:38)