Description:
OPD Points: 5
- Understand the definition of childhood trauma and how it presents in children.
- Identify appropriate frameworks for working with childhood trauma.
- Build skills in communicating with parents and carers.
- Ascertain phases of the therapeutic relationship.
- Identify stages of play.
- Understand parent-child attachment.
- Value the importance of self-care and supervision
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
Module 1: Understand the definition of childhood trauma. Explore fight, flight, freeze response. Working with ACES’s. *Reflective practice – how to educate parents about the presentation of trauma. Self-assessment quiz.
Module 2: Explore five different frameworks and approaches to working with childhood trauma.*Reflective Practice: Exploring preferred approaches and preferences to working with age groups. Working with parents. Child/therapist session examples.*Reflective Practice: Design a rapport building game for use with children. Identify the 6 stages of play. Working with teens. Mandatory reporting. Case study. Self-Assessment Quiz.
Module 3:Understand the importance of working with parents/carers. Information gathered during intake sessions.  *Reflective Practice: Design an parent/child intake sheet. Identify the different types of attachment. The importance of boundaries.*Reflective Practice: Exploring childhood attachment and impact of positive/negative attachment. Working with parentification. Case Study. Self-assessment quiz.
Module 4: Challenges therapists may face. Understand the difference between vicarious trauma and burn out. Transference and counter transference. Identify ways in which to self-care.*Reflective Exercise: Identifying own self-care routine. Explore the importance of supervision.*Reflective Assessment. Self-care assessment Quiz.
Assessment:
Presenter / Provider:
Laura Adams
Presenter Qualifications:
Certificate levels 1-3 in Counselling. Foundation Degree in Counselling. (UK)Â
Graduate Diploma in Counselling: specialising in families and children.
Play Therapy.
Laura has previously worked in the UK as a school counsellor. For 12 years Laura has worked in Queensland as a specialist child trauma counsellor. Laura also works with adults and runs her own private practice.
Registration Instructions:
ACA member discount $50 with code: 2024
Total cost with discount $125 *PLEASE NOTE: ONCE SUBSCRIBED YOU HAVE IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO COURSE CONTENT.
