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8 Phases of EMDR with Children & Adolescents: Integrating Play Therapy
Nov
13

8 Phases of EMDR with Children & Adolescents: Integrating Play Therapy


Friday, November 13, 2020 at 8:30 AM - 4 PM EST

24 EMDRIA continuing education credits for both trainings!!

  • Day 1 & 2 - EMDR with Children and Adolescents: Phases 1-2 (12 EMDRIA Credits) NOVEMBER 6-7, 2020
  • DAY 3 & 4 - EMDR with Children and Adolescents: Phases 3-8 (12 EMDRIA Credits) NOVEMBER 13-14, 2020

If you purchase both trainings for all 4 days you will receive a $97 discount!!!

Join us for this VIRTUAL 4 day training (2 weekends) to learn how to integrate EMDR & PLAY Therapy!!

Day 1-2: (12 EMDRIA Approved Credits) NOVEMBER 6-7, 2020

  • Describe how the 8 phases of the standard EMDR therapy protocol are applied when working with children and adolescent clients.
  • Learn how a developing brain functions, maladaptive information is stored, and adverse childhood experiences impact children and adolescent clients.
  • Identify applications of the Adaptive Information Processing, AIP, model with children and adolescent clients.
  • Learn how to collectively gather information from a parent/caregiver and child/adolescent client through Play Therapy techniques to perform (PHASE 1) to gather a comprehensive history, conceptualize the case, and create a comprehensive targeted sequence treatment plan.
  • Discuss the preparation (PHASE 2) performed with child and adolescent clients by supporting their emotional literacy, experiencing grounding techniques, developing a calm place image, creating a container image, and engaging in resource development through animal imagery.

Day 3-4: (12 EMDRIA Approved Credits) NOVEMBER 13-14, 2020

  • Demonstrate how to conduct an assessment (PHASE 3) by utilizing methods to determine the Subjective Unit of Distress, SUD, with minor clients, “What Happened Next” drawing activity to identify a target, as well as elicit developmentally phrased positive and negative cognitions.
  • Explore and practice (hands-on) various creative methods of Dual Awareness Stimulation, aka Bi-lateral Stimulation, with child and adolescent clients to support desensitization and reprocessing of distress. (PHASE 4).
  • Use Play Therapy techniques to reassess and engage in positive cognition installment (PHASE 5).
  • Apply Play Therapy techniques to assist children and adolescents in identifying somatic distress and symptoms through a child friendly version of a Body Scan directive (PHASE 6).
  • Learn pendulation and titration play based techniques with children and adolescents clients to reduce somatic distress. (PHASE 7).
  • Educate child/adolescent clients and their parents/caregivers about resourcing and grounding techniques for stabilization and attainment of a sense of equilibrium (PHASE 7).
  • Demonstrate how to conduct re-evaluation (PHASE 8) with child/adolescent and/or their parents/caregivers.