A SUPERHERO FRAMEWORK USING PLAY THERAPY AND AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS WITH DIFFICULT, DEFENSIVE AND ANXIOUS CHILDREN AND TEENS
A SUPERHERO FRAMEWORK USING PLAY THERAPY AND AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS WITH DIFFICULT, DEFENSIVE AND ANXIOUS CHILDREN AND TEENS
If you’ve been working with children and adolescents in the mental health field, including school settings, then you’ve definitely had clients and students on your caseload who STRUGGLE with regulating their strong emotions.
These are the children whose parents, teachers, peers, and family members are at their wits end dealing with your client’s emotion regulation problems. They are frustrated, worried, and feel like failures helping your client.
Your client often feels like a “bad kid” because they feel like they just can’t control their emotional outbursts, which of course only makes things worse for them.
Their self-esteem is often terrible and they may lash out in anger because they are just as frustrated and overwhelmed as everyone else.
So, what can you do?
Well...
Neuroscience and attachment theory provide decades of research to help us better understand what is activating emotion dysregulation for our young clients.
It also provides the solution to help our young clients learn how to regulate their emotions. You’ll also use this framework to help their parents learn how to help their child using co-regulation.
C.A.P.E.S is an attachment and neuroscience-informed framework to help you create a safe therapeutic space so your clients can engage in the therapeutic process and stay connected in the play therapy process. This framework also helps you ensure you stay tuned into your clients so you can figure out what’s contributing to their emotion regulation problems and how you can help their parents be more effective helping their child.
And – it’s free!
So, download your copy and start accessing your play therapy superpowers (Yes, I went there!) to help your client learn how to regulate their strong emotions.