What You’ll Discover in Janet Courtney Touch and Boundary Setting in Child Counseling & Classrooms Interventions to Manage Challenging and Ethical Dilemmas
- Faculty:
- Janet Courtney
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 57 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Dec 06, 2017
Description
- Skills to work with autism, attachment and aggression, ADHD, sexual abuse, and physical/sex abuse
- Play therapy to help kids establish healthy boundaries
- Profesional and There are legal boundaries for safe physical contact in Therapy
- Touch best-Practice guidelines
Touch in Therapy with children is a taboo subject for a long time and A hotbed of controversy
As practitioners, we and Every day, educators are confronted with ethical dilemmas. and Educational and clinical dilemmas to touch from a child’s request for a hug, to A child inappropriately touching another child to Aggressions that involve physical violence
Join Janet Courtney, PhD. LCSW. RPT. and Leading expert in The field of touch in This ground-breaking workshop. Learn the most recent research. to Neurobiology of Touch and attachment, plus the varied mediating factors that impact child initiated verses practitioner/educator initiated touch.
Find a wide range of touch-Play therapy that is ethically intervenes with children’s problems using informed play therapy and Diagnostics to trauma, sexual and Physical abuse, domestic violence and ADHD are all possible. and attachment.
You’ll walk away with new interventions to You can successfully manage in-The-Play therapy and momentary touch behavior problems-Based techniques to help kids and Healthy touch boundaries are established by teens. Your professional awareness should be increased and Competency through laboratory activities and Clinical and Guidelines for ethical touch to You can immediately reduce your risk of liability.
Handouts
| Manual 053095 (6.29 MB) | 69 pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
How to break down the Touch Controversy
- What is the problem with touch and children?
- Touch With children vs. with adults
- “No touch” policies—More harm than good?
- Touch and Your code of ethics
- Male vs female practitioner liability
- Examining the “slippery slope” Argument
- Current research
Neurobiology Touch
- Oxytocin—the “calming & connectivity” hormone
- Cortisol & hurtful touch
- Parasympathetic nervous systems (PNS)
- C-tactile fibers—Emotional touch
- Sensory mirror neurons – develop empathy and Interconnectivity
- Psychoeducation
Assessment of Mediating Factors Touch
- Types of touch: practitioner initiated, child initiated, and task-oriented, referential…
- Child’s age, gender, diagnosis
- Theoretical approach
- Cultural, religion, and more…
Case ExamplesEthical Dilemmas – Respond, Intervene & Set Safe Boundaries in Clinics/Classrooms
- Recommendations for working with physically & sexually abused children—attunement/ proximity/cues
- Alternatives to physical restraint – interventions for physically aggressive kids/teens
- Skills for working with children diagnosed with autism, reactive attachment disorder, ADHD (attunement/proximity/cues)
- Child Restraint—informed consent sample
- Handling inappropriate touching by the child
- Developmental differences: infants, children, teens
Assessments and Play Therapy Touch As an Intervention
- Developmental play therapy—touch and attachment disorders
- DIR/floortime and Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children
- FirstPlay®–facilitating corrective (and Infants can have preventive (or therapeutic) contact experiences between them and Parents
- Touch in Animal assisted therapy
- Peer-to-peer massage in schools
- Touch in groups: dance & movement/bereavement/play therapy
- Example Cases
Lab Experiential—Growing Professional Self-Awareness
- Know your comfort zone boundaries and proximity to others
- Side hugs and acceptable touch alternatives
- Establish appropriate boundaries for children
- Discussion with small groups of professionals who have completed a touch survey
- Practice boundary setting interventions—through mock demonstrations
Be a guru “Touch Educator” With Creative Play-Based Interventions
- “Captain May I”
- ‘Red Light, Green Light’
- Personal Space for Hula Hoop
- “My No Touch Square!” chant activity
- Creating safe boundaries in The sandtray and clay
- Examples of case studies to Apply to Pray
Growing Ethical Competency in Touch
- Aristotle’s “Practical Wisdom”
- Five core competencies in touch
- Guidelines for clinical and ethical touch
- Liability risk management— informed consent
Faculty
Janet Courtney Similar seminars and products: 5
Janet A. Courtney, PhD, LCSW, is founder of FirstPlay Therapy® and Barry University School of Social Work, Miami Shores FL. She is a Registered Play Therapy- Supervisor, TEDx speaker, a StoryPlay® facilitator, and Past President of Florida Association for Play Therapy. She is also the author of publications. in The International Journal of Play TherapyThe American Journal of Art Therapy, and The Journal of Therapeutic Horticulture, and Contributing author to the chapter, Touching Autism Through Developmental Play Therapy in The book Play-Based Interventions For Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Dr. Courtney A book has also been published in Spring, 2017, Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy Ethical and Clinical Guide.
She offers a certification in FirstPlay Therapy® (including FirstPlay® Infant Massage Storytelling). She was invited to Speak up nationally and Internationally: Cayman Islands, England and Ireland, Morocco, Russia and Ukraine She is an expert in Ukrainian cuisine in Attachment and infant mental health and Trauma-related issues. Dr. Courtney’s new form of Kinesthetic Storytelling® can be found in her children’s book, The Magic Rainbow. Visit her website at www.FirstPlayTherapy.com for more information.
Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Janet Courtney is founder of FirstPlay™ Therapy. She is in Private practice and Barry University, adjunct professor Dr. Courtney Receives a speaking honorarium of PESI Inc.
Non-financial: Janet Courtney is a member of National Association of Social Workers.
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