Jennifer Lefebre – Trauma Treatment for Kids – Healing the Body Through Play: Advanced Interactive Workshop

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Outline

• Neuroscience of Childhood Trauma Trauma Theory
  • Fight-or-Flight (parasympathetic/sympathetic nervous system)
  • Attachment Theory
• Assessment
  • Complex Trauma
  • Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Reactive Attachment Disorder
  • Developmental Trauma Disorder
  • A new conceptualization and integrated clinical framework
• Essential Components for Trauma-Informed Treatments
  • Establishing safety and a sense of competence/worth
  • Appropriate attachments & relational engagement
  • Self-regulation (body & emotions)
  • Self-reflection & Introspection
  • Integration of traumatic experiences (acknowledgment & processing of the trauma)
  • Future safety ~ transitioning beyond the Trauma
• Body Based Treatment – Emotional and Behavioral Regulation
  • Verbal vs nonverbal responses – how to recognize trauma without verbal report
  • Bottom-up versus top-down processing – trauma starts in the body
  • Developmental needs of traumatized children
  • Embodied play & sensory integration – emotional and behavioral regulation
• Incorporating Play Therapy into Proven Evidence-based Treatments
  • Components that “fit” the child’s specific needs
  • TF-CBT- Trauma focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
  • CPP – Child Parent Psychotherapy
  • ARC – Attachment, Regulation, and Competency
  • TARGET – Trauma Adaptive Recovery Group Education Therapy
• Play Therapy Principles
  • Therapist establishes a friendly relationship
  • Accepts the child as he is
  • Creates a permissive relationship; child has freedom of expression
  • Validates (acknowledge and reflect) child’s feelings
  • Responsibility for decisions and change is left mostly to the child
  • Child directs the therapeutic process; therapist follows
  • Therapeutic interaction is not rushed
  • Limits are set only when necessary for child’s outcomes
• Advancing Trauma Treatment with Play Therapy
  • Non-verbal techniques
  • Sensory-based techniques
  • Culturally and developmentally appropriate techniques
• Play Therapy Strategies and Techniques
  • Integration of traumatic experiences to acknowledge and process the trauma: Sandtrays, drawings, & play
  • Target shame, self-doubt, and selfcompassion: Sandtray Safeplace & All About Me
  • Build an understanding of the brainbody relationship: Flip your lid and Charades
  • Target indiscriminate attachments and interpersonal reactivity: Invisible String & Family Sandtray
  • Improve emotional and bodily regulation: Stressballs, Be Spaghetti, Feelings Map, Trashballs, Yoga, and Weather Massage

Faculty

Jennifer Lefebre, Psy.D., RPT-S Related seminars and products: 8

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Jennifer Lefebre, Psy.D., RPT-S, TCTSY-F, is a clinical psychologist, registered play therapist supervisor, and trauma-sensitive yoga facilitator. She is the president-elect for the New England Association for Play Therapy. Her clinical and research interests focus on the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents, adults and families whose lives have been impacted by complex trauma. Dr. Lefebre has extensive experience working with young children (0-5), adult survivors of severe childhood abuse and neglect, first responders, and combat veterans.

Dr. Lefebre is the clinical director at Healing the Child Within, a holistic trauma center in northwestern Connecticut which integrates psychotherapy, yoga, play, and expressive arts therapies into the treatment of complex trauma. She also provides clinical supervision and play therapy consultation throughout New England and online, and an adjunct faculty member at several universities, teaching both at the undergraduate and graduate level. In addition to being an experienced play therapist and professor, Dr. Lefebre is a sought-after expert for speaking engagements, podcasts and webinars on the topics of play therapy and complex childhood trauma.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Jennifer Lefebre is in private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Jennifer Lefebre is a member of the Association of Play Therapy.

Salepage: https://catalog.pesi.com//item/trauma-treatment-kids-healing-body-play-advanced-interactive-workshop-30357