Mental Health Education and Training for Professionals
Wanna Come Out and Play? The creative use of games, stories, puppets, and art with children and teens
Date: April 26, 2019
Facilitator: Liana Lowenstein, , best-selling author and one of Canada's foremost presenters on childhood trauma.
This training is suitable for: Mental health professionals, clinicians, psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists and social workers.
The creative use of games, puppets, stories, and art engages children and teens in therapy and helps them to resolve their psychological difficulties. Through this hands-on training, participants will learn to describe key processing skills to deepen therapeutic work and how to utilize a variety of therapeutic techniques to make sessions more meaningful and effective. The activities presented can be used with a wide range of presenting problems and difficulties. Videos and live demonstrations will be used to illustrate techniques.
Learning Objectives:
- identify the therapeutic value of game play, and the criteria for game selection.
- utilize basic skills in bringing a puppet to life.
- describe the steps to writing therapeutic stories and how to integrate metaphors.
- articulate guidelines to processing client artwork.
- implement a variety of play and expressive arts techniques.
- describe key processing skills to deepen therapeutic work.
This is Learning Module 2 of the 2019 Certificate in Essential Skills for Assessing and Treating Children and Families. This module may be taken separately from the certificate program as a stand-alone workshop.
Meet the Facilitator:
Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW., CPT-S
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