Play Therapy Intervention: Excavating Hard Things

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Resumen

TLDRParis Goodyear Brown, creator of the trauma play model, emphasizes the need to understand children's behaviors as expressions of unmet needs. She introduces an intervention called 'Excavating Hard Things,' which uses playful materials like Play-Doh and Legos to help children and parents explore difficult emotions. This approach fosters connection and healing within families, particularly in the context of trauma exacerbated by the pandemic. The model encourages caregivers to shift their perspectives on children's behaviors and highlights the importance of the parent-child attachment relationship in the healing process.

Para llevar

  • 👶 Understanding children's behaviors as unmet needs is crucial.
  • 🎨 'Excavating Hard Things' uses playful materials for emotional exploration.
  • 🤝 Parent-child attachment is central to the trauma play model.
  • 🧩 Playful interventions can help families heal together.
  • 💔 Titrating exposure to hard emotions makes discussions easier.
  • 🛠️ Materials like Play-Doh and Legos can facilitate therapy.
  • 🌍 The pandemic has increased stories of trauma and disconnection.
  • 🗣️ Labeling difficult emotions helps in processing them.
  • 🔄 EMDR techniques can be integrated into the trauma play model.
  • 💖 Joyful experiences are essential for emotional recovery.

Cronología

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    Paris Goodyear Brown introduces the trauma play model, emphasizing the importance of understanding children's behaviors as expressions of unmet needs rather than manipulative actions. She advocates for a paradigm shift among caregivers to foster healing within families and educational systems. The session highlights the role of parents as partners in the therapeutic process, using attachment relationships as a foundation. Brown shares an intervention called 'Excavating Hard Things,' which involves using soft materials like Play-Doh or yogurt to symbolize the hidden difficulties children face. This activity allows children and parents to identify and label their challenges in a safe, playful manner, facilitating a gradual exploration of trauma while maintaining a balance with joyful interactions. The approach aims to create a supportive environment for discussing difficult emotions and experiences, ultimately guiding families towards healing.

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Vídeo de preguntas y respuestas

  • What is the trauma play model?

    The trauma play model focuses on understanding children's behaviors as expressions of unmet needs and emphasizes the importance of the parent-child attachment relationship.

  • What is the 'Excavating Hard Things' activity?

    It is an intervention that uses soft materials like Play-Doh to help children and parents explore difficult emotions by embedding hard items within them.

  • How does the trauma play model help families?

    It helps families heal together by shifting perspectives on children's behaviors and fostering connection through playful interactions.

  • What materials can be used for the 'Excavating Hard Things' activity?

    Materials like Play-Doh, Legos, yogurt, trail mix, peanut butter, and even mud can be used.

  • What is the goal of the 'Excavating Hard Things' activity?

    The goal is to help children and parents identify and label difficult emotions in a safe and playful manner.

  • How does this model address trauma?

    It provides a structured way to explore trauma-related feelings while maintaining a playful and supportive environment.

  • Can this model be used in therapy sessions?

    Yes, it is designed for use in therapy sessions with children and parents.

  • What is the significance of titrating exposure to hard things?

    Titrating exposure allows for a gradual approach to discussing difficult emotions, making it less overwhelming.

  • How does the model incorporate EMDR techniques?

    The model can integrate EMDR bilateral stimulation techniques to enhance trauma processing.

  • What is the importance of play in this model?

    Play serves as a foundation for healing, allowing children to express themselves and connect with their parents.

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  • 00:00:01
    hi everyone my name is Paris Goodyear
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    Brown and I am the creator of the trauma
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    play model and I Am The Clinical
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    Director of nurture house sweet
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    Treatment Facility in Franklin Tennessee
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    so we know that a lot of the children
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    that we see who have big
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    behaviors really have an underlying need
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    that has not been met yet and if we can
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    shift from and really help shift
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    paradigms for caregivers as well from
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    seeing the child's Behavior as
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    controlling and manipulative in and of
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    itself to and asking this question what
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    is the underlying need that's not being
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    met yet um I think that we can um shift
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    the way whole school systems interact
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    with children whole families healed
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    together and certainly how we show up in
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    our treatment sessions with kids and
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    parents together um one of at the heart
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    of trauma play is parents as partners in
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    the process and using the attachment
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    relationship as the foundation of all of
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    our interactions with each other uh I'm
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    going to show you one today just one
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    intervention that is in the book I'm
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    actually out in LA and not in my
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    beautiful library in my home in Fairview
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    that I love to teach from so I have
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    behind me this um graphic every family
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    has a story and I do believe that it's
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    especially true in the wake of Co that
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    there are more stories of trauma
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    hardship stress
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    disconnection um than there have ever
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    been in our world and so we developed
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    some new ways of working when we were
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    working with zoom through the screen and
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    I would meet with a parent and child and
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    there would be hard things that had been
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    happening um we would first start out
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    with delighting in experiences and if
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    you come to the training you will learn
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    some of those playful ways uh games for
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    delighting in each other um helping
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    parents and children toing bring back
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    the joy when they've been in such
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    distress um we would start there and
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    then we would begin to dig into the hard
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    things and so this activity is called
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    Excavating hard things and it is um you
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    simply need some sort of soft malleable
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    material in your environment um I like
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    to use Play-Doh and Legos especially for
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    my latency age boys they really like the
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    Lego work and so we will embed little
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    hard Lego pieces into Play-Doh and
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    smooth it out into a ball um and then
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    we'll talk about how the outside may
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    look smooth and okay but actually there
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    can be really hard things happening
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    inside and then we begin to using
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    either Chopsticks or um uh tweezers or
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    sometimes knitting needles if we're in
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    our art room where we have a big jar of
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    knitting supplies um you can also use
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    just a pencil or or even your finger to
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    excavate the hard things but I'll ask
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    the parent sometimes a child on their
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    own in an individual session or a parent
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    and a child together to go and find
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    materials and I I actually just got off
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    a training where someone had used yogurt
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    and Trail Mix Yogurt was the softer
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    material trail mix was embedded in it as
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    the hard things um I've had parents when
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    it was the um really height of the
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    pandemic they would go into pantries and
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    I would follow them on the phone through
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    zoom into their pantries we would find
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    peanut butter and uh dried rice or dried
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    beans could be the hard things embedded
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    in the peanut butter if you were um
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    taking a child or parent child diet out
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    into nature you could make mud pies and
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    embed stones and twigs and other hard
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    pieces of things into the mud pie and
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    that could become the way you do this
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    work again out here in La not having any
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    my normal supplies I just raided my
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    brother's um kitchen and found this um
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    honey pecan Philadelphia cream cheese so
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    I'm going to um excavate in this way one
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    of the things that is seminal in the
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    trauma play model is a value in
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    titrating the dose of exposure to hard
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    things so when I do this Excavating
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    activity what I might do first is simply
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    have the child parent pull one of the
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    hard things out and just give it a name
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    just title it so they don't have to talk
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    yet in detail about the hard thing that
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    happened or Draw about it or create sand
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    trays or really press in it's a first
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    glance it's a it's a dose of the hard
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    thing in a distanced way by titling it
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    and labeling it over here so they would
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    pull one out a piece of pecan and they
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    might say um
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    um one of the ones that that just showed
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    up this morning was um grief and
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    gratitude might be what said I had a
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    teenager last week who said um
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    unraveling
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    connections um because her social life
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    is kind of in a shambles at the moment
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    she's felt like she's lost her friend
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    group and so this excavation what I'll
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    do is ask the child to notice what it
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    feels like as they excavate if they
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    don't have words to create a title
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    that's okay they can just excavate and
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    notice how it feels to pull out this
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    hard thing from inside the rest and
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    that's just one we we use that you can
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    use it especially if you're trained also
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    in EMDR which I am a EMDR approved
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    consultant so um you can add the EMDR
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    bilateral stimulations into the work you
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    can use this as trauma targeting um
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    helping to create create the set of
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    trauma targets you might use um and it's
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    just it's a first look at what might be
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    some of the harder things that need to
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    be addressed in the course of treatment
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    and then we go right back to other
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    playful interventions and you have a bit
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    of a template for what the work longer
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    term might look like
Etiquetas
  • trauma
  • play therapy
  • parenting
  • child behavior
  • emotional healing
  • attachment
  • intervention
  • mental health
  • family therapy
  • pandemic impact