Dafna Lender – Attachment Focused Play Therapy

 This seminar is for you if you have answered YES to any one of the above questions. I’ll show you the proof-Activities that help children overcome resistance and harness their power-Parent relationship to undergo rapid and drastic changes.

 Dafna Lender – Attachment Focused Play Therapy

The 4 Dimensions of Theraplay®

• To Resolve Behavioral Problems, and Gain Connection Cooperation
  • Structure: Safety and organization
  • Engagement: connection, joy, co-Regulating strong emotions
  • Nurture: Secure base for emotional and calming nourishment
  • Challenge: Recognition, ride and celebration of self

Calm an Overactive/Aggressive/Oppositional Child

• Strategies to prevent trauma and outbursts-Aggression based on fear (The P.R.O.M.P.T. method)
  • Proximity
  • Rhythm
  • Optimal movement
  • Touch Response
• Techniques to detect non-Stress signs verbally
• Activities to transform resistance into a connecting experience
• Video case examples: transformation from aggressive & uncooperative to focused & relaxed

Engage the Disconnected Child

• Strategies to capture and keep a child’s attention (The G.R.E.A.T. method)
  • Gesture
  • Rhythm
  • Contact lenses
  • Affect
  • Tone communication
• Activities that children can’t resist getting involved in
  • War on cotton balls
  • Pass the shaving ball
• Interventions to change passiveness into cooperation
  • Aluminum foil print
  • Paper punch
• Techniques for making sense of non-verbal communication & get child to start talking
  • Cotton ball blowing
  • Balloon pass
• Video case example: Clients aged 1 and 2 before and after-17

Promote Positive Thinking-Parenting a child

• Activities that strengthen the parent-Attachment to children
  • Hockey with cotton balls
  • Mirror mirror
  • Measuring
• Techniques to increase empathy through eye contact, touch, and turn-Take
  • Eye signal dance
  • Slippery slip
• Activities that foster joy and create connections
  • Balancing pillows
  • Feather decorate
• Interventions to lessen arguments and encourage cooperation
  • Before a child engages in a power struggle, identify them
  • Recognize when oppositionality is actually a trauma response
  • Empathy helps to disarm oppositional behaviours
  • It is important to know when it should be cooled.
• Strategies to boost self-esteem-Encourage self-esteem and make your child feel special
  • Special snack
  • Twinkle song
  • Favorite things
  • Powder prints
• Video case: High- and Low-functioning Clients

Would you like a gift?  Dafna Lender – Attachment Focused Play Therapy ?

Description:

Are you a parent who struggles with children who are:

• Are you aggressive and determined?
• Do you want to trash your treatment room or waste your materials?
• Do you act chaotic, foolish, or will not remain still?
• Are you refusing or unable to communicate with your partner?
• Are you exhibiting an unprofessional behavior (oppositional, controlling, avoid eyecontact)?

Are you also frustrated with parents who are angry and won’t listen to your advice? Parents who are angry at you and their child, and resentful of you. You should watch this seminar if you answered “YES” to any of the above! I’ll show you the proof-Activities that help children overcome resistance and harness their power-Parent relationship to undergo rapid and drastic changes.

Theraplay helps you reach your most difficult, traumatized and dysregulated children. It quickly transforms them into a calmer and more cooperative child that can help you get therapy done. Theraplay makes it easy to create a therapeutic environment where children feel comfortable coming to therapy. They also become more involved in the process.

Theraplay involves parents in a positive and immediate way. It gives them the opportunity to feel proud of their children and can motivate them to help them. The therapist, parent, and child all work together to create a winning combination that will lead to positive and lasting changes.