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

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

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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

About Author:

With eleven books on treating traumatized children and their families, Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S, EMDRIA certified EMDR therapist, is one of the leading experts on the intersection of childhood trauma and play therapy in the world. In her groundbreaking model, TraumaPlay™, she integrates both directive and non-directive approaches to treatment into an umbrella framework that gives clinicians structure to employ evidence-informed interventions with confidence while encouraging creativity and freedom to follow the child’s need all along the way in treatment