HCA- Therapeutic Life Story Work: Listening to Children - Learning skills to engage and assess children to ascertain their wishes and feelings

Listening to Children - 4 Day Course

Learning skills to engage and assess children to ascertain their wishes and feelings

Delivered by Carol Platteuw -Child care consultant, play therapist and trainer.

Containing some theoretical grounding, this is a highly experiential course mostly workshop style enabling you to learn and practice techniques using a wide range of materials including sand, clay, puppets, drawing, paint etc.

'Please note that a £75 fee (per-day) to your respective service will be incurred in the event of any non-attendances/no-shows of this training session'

Please note that you must be able to attend all 4 dates below, as part of this training course:

Day 1 - Structuring sessions
20^th November 2024

Practical guidance regarding how to best structure sessions with children and adolescents
Engagement techniques
Introducing yourself
Reflective listening
Managing feelings
Recording sessions

Day 2 -Child Development, The Brain, Developmental Trauma
21^st November 2024

Understanding the brain
Developmental trauma and reparative interventions
Developmental levels of play and how to enhance physical senses
Parenting children who have suffered Developmental Trauma

Day 3 - Attachment, Grief and Loss, Working with Adolescents
25^th November 2024

Attachment
Grief and Loss model
Working with Adolescents

Day 4 - Theory – Assessing attachment, parent/child work to enhance attachments
26^th November 2024

Measuring attachment
MIM assessment
Introduction to Theraplay

Learning outcomes

By the end of this 4-day training course, you will be able to:

Effectively structure sessions with children to inform assessments.
Understand how children are affected emotionally and developmentally by experiences of attachment, separation and loss, abuse, neglect and trauma and have some ideas of how to help the child manage these powerful feelings.
Understand better how to use a range of techniques that help children communicate their wishes and feelings verbally and non-verbally through their behaviour and play, individually and within their families and pick out the themes and patterns they are exhibiting for your reports.
Be able to listen and respond to children most effectively to ascertain their wishes and feelings and know how to add the child/young person’s views to your assessment reports and evidence these.
Be able to undertake parent/child work to enhance relationships.
Have a tool kit of techniques to use in direct work with children.

Booking onto this course will enrol you automatically to all 4 dates so you will just need to book your place once on the date available below.

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