CANCELLED --- Creative Interventions to Engage, Assess, and Treat Children & Families

The creative use of games, art, puppets and stories in therapy is an effective way to engage clients and help them to resolve difficulties. Expanding your repertoire beyond traditional “talk therapy” to include play and expressive arts will make therapy sessions more engaging and effective. Techniques will be illustrated to facilitate rapport and to engage children in therapy. Best-selling author and one of Canada’s foremost presenters on child psychotherapy, Liana Lowenstein will outline a step-by-step assessment model and participants will learn how to use the assessment as a basis for formu...Read morelating treatment plans.

A variety of games, art activities, stories, and other techniques will be highlighted. The techniques will be applied to specific clinical examples to illustrate how they can help clients work through treatment issues such as feelings identification, anger management, social skills, stress reduction, and self-esteem.

The activities presented can be used with a wide range of presenting problems and difficulties such as family violence, divorce, grief and loss, serious illness, and placement in out-of-home care. Videos and live demonstrations will illustrate techniques.

This training will be fun and interactive, and participants will come away with many new therapy techniques to add to their existing repertoire. Less...

Learning Objectives

• State at least 3 interventions that could be used to engage clients in therapy.
• Apply an innovative model for assessing children and families.
• Utilize treatment techniques in individual, group, and family therapy sessions.

Target Audience

Learning Levels

• Intermediate

Monday, September 30, 2024

09:00 AM EDT - 04:30 PM EDT