TraumaPlay™: A Cutting Edge, Attachment-Based Treatment Framework – Paris Goodyear-Brown

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With Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on the rise globally, effective, engaging, evidence-informed trauma treatment for children and families has never been more urgently needed!

Come watch Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S, expert in childhood trauma, as she unpacks her cutting-edge, attachment based, integrative play therapy model: TraumaPlay™. With an engaging, compassionate presence that helps clinicians feel felt through the screen, Paris will dive into the nuts and bolts of treatment.

This components-based model demystifies play-based trauma treatment by outlining the scope and sequence of trauma specific work with children. Components covered will include:

• Using a child’s safety metaphors to create a safe place for trauma processing
• Assessing a client’s current coping strategies and augmenting the adaptive ones
• Soothing the child’s physiology
• Physiology and inviting parents into the process
• Increasing emotional literacy
• Building a coherent trauma narrative to integrate somatosensory information
• Addressing the child’s thought life (dealing with cognitive distortions)
• Making positive meaning of the post-trauma self

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1. Determine three best-practice concerns for providing trauma treatment through telehealth.
2. Develop several self-directed ways in which children use the playroom to increase their sense of safety and security.
3. Implement five play-based interventions that decrease a child’s physiological arousal.
4. Utilize the SOOTHE strategies, a codified set of co-regulation strategies that can be taught to caregivers.
5. Employ each of the three roles of a TraumaPlay Therapist to enhance treatment efficacy.
6. Differentiate the seven components of TraumaPlay within a larger continuum of treatment.’

Safety and Boundary Provision in Teleplay with Children

• Constraints to Confidentiality and Possible Power Differentials
• Disclosures including where you are, where they are
• Safe Boss Roles and Limit Setting: Bodies, Boundaries, and Available Help
• Challenges to Clear Communication through the Screen
• When Telehealth may be Contraindicated/Limitations and Potential Risks
• Play Therapy Materials Needed

Key Concepts in Treating Traumatized Children

• Amygdala Alarm/Psychosomatic Symptom
• The Portals for Therapeutic Learning
• Following the Child’s Need
• The Dance Towards and Away from Trauma Content (with Case examples)
• Posttraumatic Play: Stuck and Moving

TraumaPlay™ Key Components with Interventions

• Enhancing Safety and Security
  • SafePlace, Sandtrays and Clinical Examples
  • Installation with EMDR
  • Kinesthetic Engagement and the Competency Surge
  • Perpetrator Symbols and Self Objects
• Assessing for and Augmenting Coping
  • The Coping Tree
  • Cope Cakes
  • The Coping Menu
• Somatic Interventions
  • Balancing Act
  • The Big One
  • Yoga Chimes
  • Hello Red Fox
• Parents as Partners
  • Love Connectors/Love Notes
  • SuperHero Combos
  • Sooth Strategies
• Increasing Emotional Literacy
  • Digital Connect Four Feelings
  • Feelings Charades
• Posttraumatic Play
  • Trauma Narrative Options
  • Parts work through Telehealth
• Addressing the Thought Life
  • Repairing Self-Esteem
• Making Positive Meaning of the Post-Trauma Self
  • Treatment Take-Aways
  • Before, During, After