A Six Week Training Group
in Child Therapy
--Children don’t care how much you know... until they know how much you care.
This is a "What to Do" workshop, focusing on real-world, hands-on therapy for kids. You will learn exactly what to do with young clients to help them with their emotional, family and social struggles, as well as a clinical rationale for what you’re doing. Trainees, interns and licensed therapists are welcome.
12 CEU's are offered for Marriage and Family Therapists, and for Licensed Clinical Social Workers.
In addition to the scheduled topics, there will be time for cases, questions and discussion.
Limited to 7 participants
$400 for the series
Contact me with questions or to sign up
email: robinwalkermft@sbcglobal.net or phone: (818)347-1242
Schedule
WEEK ONE: INTRODUCTION
●Basic philosophy: Children in treatment are suffering from a “loss of enchantment”
●What makes a child therapist different from a teacher or a baby sitter.
●The prototypical child therapist with an example from cinema
●Why talk-therapy doesn’t work for children
●Demonstration of interventions
●The ABC’s of child therapy
WEEK TWO: THE BASICS
●Universal treatment goals
●Stages of child therapy
●Example from literature
●Themes in children’s play
●The importance of play
●Demonstration of art therapy techniques
WEEK THREE: ASSESSMENT
●The ‘five question’ assessment
●Three characteristics of children in therapy
●Importance of the social world
●Assessing progress
●More demonstrations of techniques and interventions
WEEK FOUR: APPLYING THEORY TO THE OFFICE
●Erik Erikson
●Writing coherent and relevant treatment plans
●Building “therapeutic presence”
●Still more techniques and interventions
WEEK FIVE: APPLYING THEORY, CONTINUED
●Donald Winnicott
●Cases from selected movies
●Special concerns and questions
●Even more interventions and techniques
WEEK SIX
●The first five sessions
●Dealing with parents
●Leftover questions and topics
●Wrapping it all up
SUPERVISION GROUP