Training/ Playing in Therapy: Working With Kids & Their Caregivers
1.5 hours of didactic and story-based learning, with opportunity for reflection questions and/or case consultation as needed.
Originally provided to License To Freedom, in San Diego, CA.
Acknowledges the basic suppositions of Narrative Therapy & Solution Focused Therapy in working with children and families.
Teaches guiding ideas from modernist conceptualization of child development and links these concepts to post-modern values.
Provides an overview of how to leverage post-modern methods of engaging with clients through modernist methodologies.
Playing in Therapy: Working with Kids & Their Caregivers
Meg Rogers
Abstract
This presentation uses personal experience as a child and family therapist in school, community, and home settings to link post-modern therapy values with useful modernist methodologies and concepts. Emphasis is on building a team of experts: with children and caregivers as experts in their own experiences and cultures, and clinicians as experts in noticing kids and asking questions. An overview of modernist theories of child development is provided, including concepts from Erikson, Vygotsky, Bowlby & Ainsworth, and theory of mind development. Helpful questions are translated into play interventions, referencing Child Centered Play Therapy, bibliotherapy, emotion coaching, and DBT for children. Challenges to dominant discourses that discount children’s perspectives, innate knowledge and problem-solving ability are provided.
Playing in Therapy/
Working With Kids & Their Caregivers
