Clair Mellenthin – Attachment Centered Play Therapy: Repair Relational Trauma and Build Secure Attachment to Accelerate Family Treatment
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- Faculty:
- Clair Mellenthin
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 16 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Feb 08, 2019
Description
Outline
Advancing Family Treatment with Play Therapy
- 4 key concepts of attachment
- Blending attachment theory with play therapy
- Attachment patterns across the lifespan and impact on parent/child relationship
- Risks and limitations
Invite Parents to Play
- Engagement strategies to strengthen parent/child relationship
- Roadblocks and triggers – parent/child/therapist
- Shame and vulnerability – shame shields
- Build rappaport and make room for parent in the playroom
- Sand tray, genograms, play-based treatment planning
- Establish boundaries and set expectations
- Encourage participation
Attachment Centered Play Therapy Strategies
- Treatment of relational trauma – Attachment, wounding and ruptures
- Parent/child relationship cycle
- Generational attachment patterns –
- Catch me if you can
- Butterfly fly away
- Two hands
- Empowerment collage
Case Studies of Abuse; Healing Attachment Wounds
Challenging Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
- Defiance, ODD, moodiness, anger, aggressiveness and school refusal
- Attachment injuries at root of undesirable behavior
- Prescriptive play therapy interventions
- Self-regulation, co-regulation
- calm down jars, guided imagery
Case Studies of Extreme Defiance and School Refusal
Strategies to Promote Positive Attachment-Based Parenting
- Maximize parent involvement to rebuild trust, repair injuries
- Proactive vs reactive parenting
- Get parent buy in
Case Study of Proactive vs Reactive Parenting
Faculty
Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S Related seminars and products: 4
Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S, is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor and is the past president of the Utah Association for Play Therapy. Throughout her career, she has focused on providing therapy to children, teens, and their families. Clair is the director of Child and Adolescent Services at Wasatch Family Therapy. She is a sought-after supervisor, training graduate students and interns in play therapy, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern California MSW program. Clair is the author of Play Therapy: Engaging & Powerful Techniques for the Treatment of Childhood Disorders (PESI, 2018) and My Many Colors of Me Workbook. (Self-Published, 2013). In addition to being an experienced play therapist and professor, she frequently presents professional play therapy and family therapy trainings and appears on local and national TV and radio as an expert on children and family issues.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Clair Mellenthin is the clinical director at Wasatch Family Therapy. She is the author of My Many Colors of Me Workbook; she maintains intellectual property rights and receives royalties. Ms. Mellenthin receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Clair Mellenthin is the president of the Utah Association for Play Therapy.
Purchase Clair Mellenthin – Attachment Centered Play Therapy: Repair Relational Trauma and Build Secure Attachment to Accelerate Family Treatment courses at here with PRICE $219.99 $41