Clair Mellenthin – The Power of Play: Proven Strategies for Trauma and Attachment in Children & Adolescents
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- Faculty:
- Clair Mellenthin
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 12 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Jan 26, 2017
Description
Outline
Framework of Attachment Theory
- Rethinking the Attachment Spectrum
- 4 Key concepts of Attachment Theory
- Creating safety in parent-child relationship
The Brain–Behavior Relationship
- Parts of the brain affected by trauma
- Regulatory processing and Executive functioning
- Impact on right brain and its behavioral consequence
- Warning signs of trauma
- Trauma impact on the parent-child relationship
- Behavior and emotional challenges
Proven Play Therapy Techniques to Strengthen Parent-Child Attachment
- Decrease whining, clinging, angry, avoidant behaviors in child clients
- Improve family relationships and communication skills
- Rebuild trust in the parent-child relationship
- Promote whole-child and whole-brain healing
Play Therapy Techniques to Treat Trauma, Utilizing Attachment-Centered Therapy
- Guided Imagery to teach distress tolerance
- Lemon Squeezies – Full Body Relaxation to reconnect with the body, decrease trauma symptoms
- My Many Colors of Me – Increase emotional intelligence and connect feelings to words instead of acting out behaviors
- Inside/Outside Box – Increase self-esteem and self-acceptance
- Telling My Story – Create age-appropriate trauma narratives
- Maximize the role of parents and caretakers
- Create hands-on tools to decrease trauma symptoms: flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, and nightmares
Faculty
Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S Related seminars and products: 4
Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S, is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor and is the past president of the Utah Association for Play Therapy. Throughout her career, she has focused on providing therapy to children, teens, and their families. Clair is the director of Child and Adolescent Services at Wasatch Family Therapy. She is a sought-after supervisor, training graduate students and interns in play therapy, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern California MSW program. Clair is the author of Play Therapy: Engaging & Powerful Techniques for the Treatment of Childhood Disorders (PESI, 2018) and My Many Colors of Me Workbook. (Self-Published, 2013). In addition to being an experienced play therapist and professor, she frequently presents professional play therapy and family therapy trainings and appears on local and national TV and radio as an expert on children and family issues.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Clair Mellenthin is the clinical director at Wasatch Family Therapy. She is the author of My Many Colors of Me Workbook; she maintains intellectual property rights and receives royalties. Ms. Mellenthin receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Clair Mellenthin is the president of the Utah Association for Play Therapy.
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