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Becoming an External Regulator for Trauma Integration in Play Therapy

Virtual
3 CE Hours
Clinical
Free

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Location

  • On Demand
    Sessions will be available On-Demand
Description

Research in neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology sheds light on the need for the therapist to act as the external regulator that supports the client to move towards the intensity, they are experiencing allowing for integration. This workshop explores this need during trauma integration for two primary reasons:

  1. Clients need to borrow the therapist’s regulatory capacity as they work through their traumatic thoughts, feelings, and sensations in therapy and
  2. The therapist’s ability to regulate themselves during the intensity increases the capacity for the presence and attunement with the client, while simultaneously supporting the health and longevity of their own nervous system.

Without the ability of the therapist to become the external regulator for the intensity that arises during trauma integration, both the client and the therapist are at risk for emotional flooding and high levels of dysregulation in their nervous systems. Over time, this can significantly impact a therapist’s longevity in the field, as well as the ability to stay attuned and present to a client in sessions.

Target Audience
  • Social Worker
  • Psychologist
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Counselor
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Education Goal

Participants will gain competency in the role of emotional regulations in play therapy.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. List the 4 major perceived threats of the brain
  2. Define what regulation is and how this understanding impacts the play therapist’s ability to co-regulate during intense play
  3. Identify 2 things a play therapist can do to develop their capacity to become an external regulator
Introductory
Clinical
Social Worker

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 3 General continuing education credits.

Psychologist

Trusted Provider Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Trusted Provider Network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Counselor

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

The Louisiana Counseling Association is approved by the Louisiana Licensed Professional Board of Examiners to offer continuing education clock hours. This presentation has been reviewed and has been approved for 3 CE clock hours for Louisiana Licensed Professional Counselors.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Ethical and Professional Development, Legal

CE Policy
TPN.health and this educator have no conflicts of interest and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents.
Becoming an External Co-Regulator Key Points
Slides
Nervous System Symptoms of Regulation and Dys-regulation
Setting Boundaries in Play Therapy:
Lisa Dion

Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S, is an international teacher, creator of Synergetic Play Therapy, founder and President of the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute, co-founder of the Synergetic Education Institute, and host of the Lessons from the Playroom podcast. She is the author of Aggression in Play Therapy: A Neurobiological Approach for Integrating Intensity and is the 2015 recipient of the Association for Play Therapy’s Professional Education and Training Award of Excellence.

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