CARE Developmental Play Therapy Intensive Four-Day Agenda
DAY ONE ~ FOUNDATIONS & ATTACHMENT
Morning 8:30-10:15
- Art Activity “Draw a picture of a play therapist & three questions” (1st experiential)
- Who is Viola Brody
- What is DPT
- Foundations of DPT
- What are the guiding theories and theorists in DPT (Bowlby; Des Lauriers; Janet Adler;
Martin Buber) - DPT in relationship to other Play Therapy attachment models
- Research in DPT
Morning Break 10:15-10:30
10:30-12:00
- Saying “Hello” (Seeing and being seen) (2nd experiential-journal)
- Symbolic play verses “first” play interventions
- Overview of DPT interventions:
- Five Modes of therapeutic DPT intervention
- Recommendations for client problems & diagnoses
- Therapeutic Settings
- What does a “relationship-based” therapy really mean
Lunch Break 12:00-1:00
Afternoon 1:00-3:00
- Silent Hello-Connecting walk—Group (3rd experiential-journal)
- Attachment Theory
- Differentiating the different types of Attachment (primary, secondary, tertiary, stranger)
- Understanding the DP therapist’s role in the attachment process
- Assessing the child’s attachment relationships ~ an attachment focused genogram
Afternoon Break 3:00-3:15
3:15-5:00
- Joyful play wires the brain for healthy interpersonal connections (video)
- The stages of DPT therapy (Therapist tasks related to child)
- Saying Hello; Building Attachment; Separation; Saying Goodbye
- Therapists own state of consciousness
- Let’s talk about the ability to be Loving— Lovingkindness; Attuned Love.
- Loving kindness visualization—individual (4th experiential-journal)
DAY TWO ~ TOUCH & FIRST PLAY ACTIVITIES
Morning 8:30-10:15
- DPT and the Touchy topic of Touch
- What do we mean by touch in DPT therapy?
- Touch literature & research (Historical & current view of touch in psychotherapy.)
- Different types & disciplines of healing touch
- Ethical considerations—Informed consent & Training in touch as ethical practice
- Touch Experiential exercise: Touch Comfort level
- DPT recommended guidelines of touch (defining appropriate touch)
Morning Break 10:15-10:30
10:30-12:00
- Energy ball (5th experiential-journal)
- Tuning-in: Individual Touch imagery (6th experiential-journal)
Lunch Break 12:00-1:00
Afternoon 1:00-3:00
- Let’s Say “Hello” to hands—
- Holding Hands exercise (giver & receiver—dyadic) (7th experiential-Journal)
- Learning attuned response
- Counting fingers/Hills & valleys (giver & receiver--dyadic) (8th experiential-Journal)
Afternoon Break 3:00-3:15
3:15-5:00
- Introducing DPT first play interventions
- The four initiatives of DPT
- Facilitating joy-finding the right “touch”
- Integrating sensory input into the play (voice/sound variation; singing/song; touch)
- DPT concept of Nurturing: helping the child to develop an internal sense of self.
- Interspersing resilient metaphorical language into the therapeutic relationship
- Let’s learn the Rainbow Weather Massage and other DPT interventions
- Practicing three different first play activities with a partner (9th experiential-journal)
- Group Closing Circle
DAY THREE ~ GROUP CIRCLE TIME
Morning 8:30-10:15 (Circle Time Group DPT)
- Overall child oriented group considerations
- DPT Circle Time—traditional format
- DPT adapted group—Individual leader
Morning Break 10:15-10:30
10:30-12:00
- Group Experiential: Learning and Practicing Group DPT interventions
- Saying Hello in group (sung to the tune of Frere Jacques)
- Group & Dyadic exercises (10th experiential-journal)
Lunch Break 12:00-1:00
Afternoon 1:00-3:00
- Cradling Imagery—individual (11th experiential-journal)
- Adapted Cradling technique—dyadic—Journal (12th experiential)
- Art Clay Representation of experience (13th experiential-journal)
Afternoon Break 3:00-3:15
3:15-5:00
- Group Circle Dance Witnessing : Seeing and being seen”
- Case presentation—Demonstration by Viola Brody--DVD
- Group Closing
- Dinner together (Optional)
- Evening Optional 6:30-8:30 (2 CEU’s) ***
- Movie Documentary of The Crying Camel: A National Geographic true story of the rejection of a white camel by its mother and how the nomads of the Gobi desert sought to heal the relationship of the mother and calf by finding a musician who performs a magical ceremony. A wonderful and touching example of attachment healing between a mother & child in the animal world. Group processing & discussion following movie.
DAY FOUR ~ CASE PRESENTATIONS & INTEGRATION
Morning 8:30-10:15
- Incorporating art assessment directives into DPT
- Case Presentation—An Awakening to a Sense of Self: (Case of a child experiencing psychotic symptoms: Pre-post therapy drawings—implications for research)
Morning Break 10:15-10:30
10:30-12:00
- Case Presentation: Touching Autism through DPT: the Case of Dallas
(A therapist-parent-child led DPT intervention). - Case Presentation: Reunification of a Father-daughter relationship in a case of
parental Alienation.
Lunch Break 12:00-1:00
Afternoon 1:00-3:00
- Integrating DPT into other Play Therapy approaches “Case of the Gym Jitters”. Childhood generalized Anxiety disorder: (Integrating CBT with DPT)
- “Case of the Poop that Would not Come Out” Child experiencing Encopresis
(Integrating Gestalt therapy & DPT)
Afternoon Break 3:00-3:15
3:15-5:00
- Integrating & adapting DPT with Pre-teens, Teenagers, Adults & Elderly:
“Draw a picture of a play therapist & three questions” (Compare pre & post drawings for
insight, awareness and dyadic processing) (14th Experiential-journal) - Closing Comments; Questions and processing
- Evaluations
Please email any questions to Dr. Courtney at: j_courtney@bellsouth.net
Developmental Play & Attachment Therapies is an approved provider through the following:
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