Amy Flaherty – Play Therapy for Trauma: Brain-Based Strategies for Children & Adolescents

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Amy Flaherty, Professor
6 hours and 22 minutes.
Audio and video formats are available.
18th of July, 2017.
Description

Techniques for brain repair and improvement include:

Attachment and control activities with Theraplay and Brain Gym
Play practices can help with coping skills and emotional identification.
Sand tray, art therapy, and CBT improve executive function for positive decisions.

Are you struggling to discover innovative, practical, brain-based strategies to help your traumatized children who struggle from anxiety, impulsivity, isolation, and defiance?

Amy Flaherty will show you how to utilize sandtray, painting, and movement activities in the playroom to boost cognitive capacity, manage sensitivity to stimuli, and improve coordination. You will leave feeling confident in your ability to create, customize, and use play therapy strategies based on strong neuroscience.

Recognize trauma cycles, dysregulation, regression, and stiffness in your clients and uncover a plethora of practical play therapy approaches to help them recover. Utilize the most recent brain science to successfully treat typical trauma-related behaviors such as:

Repetitive motion
Isolation
Meltdowns
Defiance
Harm to oneself and others, among other things!

To completely explain play therapy practices and the newest brain research, videos, case studies, and experiential techniques will be used.

Handouts

Manual (1.79 MB) (1.79 MB)

After purchase, 37 pages are available.

ASHA Participant Form – ONLY FOR SELF STUDY – 07/18/17 (1.54 MB)

Available upon purchase

ASHA Credit Instructions – SELF STUDY ONLY – 07/18/17 (0.03 MB)

Outline available after purchase

An Overview of Trauma’s Effects on the Brain

Age-appropriate recreation
Physical vs. environmental
ACES score has long-term repercussions.
Trauma-related protective factors
The significance of attachment research
Within play therapy, there are five main signs of trauma.

Interpersonal Neurobiology Principles in Play Therapy

The Integration Domains
Why the split brain is important
How play therapy can control and allow people to travel up and down the brain system as needed
Case studies demonstrating a lack of integration

BRAIN REPAIRING THROUGH PLAY TECHNIQUES – OVER 30 TECHNIQUES

Dysregulation, stiffness, regression, and trauma looping techniques (targets cerebellum)

Songs and rhythm games
Activities involving attachment
When it’s acceptable, use touch in play.

Emotional identification techniques (targets the limbic system)

Color my heart game
Describe the sensation.
Game of Angry Balloons
Experiment with an angry volcano
I have butterflies in my stomach.
What makes the sand tray unique?

Coping skills techniques for dealing with rigidity, trauma cycles, and detrimental behaviors (targets the cortex)

Assertiveness Mad Libs game
I can play the hand game calmly.
Breathing exercises
Bottle of relaxation/sensory stimulation
Biblothearpy for positive self-talk in the playroom

Techniques for improving executive function in order to make better decisions:

After the body has been stabilized and the entire brain has been activated (targets the pre-frontal cortex)

Sandtray vision board directions
Make a headstone
Carrying stones of shame
Directors’ Meeting

Parenting and caregiving best practices

ACT method: name it to tame it
What research indicates about how important it is for parents to work on their own stories
Amy Flaherty, Professor Seminars and items related to: 1

Amy Flaherty is a Licensed Psychological Examiner-Independent and a Registered Physical Therapist in Northeast Arkansas. For over ten years, she has worked in outpatient therapy with both children and adults. Amy has been teaching intense play therapy sessions for numerous years. She studied under Theresa Kestly at the Sandtray Institute of New Mexico for over 100 hours of rigorous study of how the brain works in sandtray and play therapy, in addition to the 150 hours of seminars she completed to acquire her play therapy certification. Amy writes and lectures frequently on sandtrays and play therapy, and her work with Pam Dyson of the DFW Center for Play Therapy was highlighted on the Association of Play Therapy website. Amy is an engaging and participatory lecturer who weaves real-life case studies with brain-informed research to give a comprehensive knowledge of play therapy.

Disclosures for Speakers:

Amy Flaherty is the President of True Hope Counseling, PLLC. In addition, she is the founder and director of the Southern Sandtray Institute. PESI, Inc. pays her a speaking honorarium.

Amy Flaherty belongs to the Association of Play Therapy and the Arkansas Association of Play Therapy.

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