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How to Engage Challenging Children in Play Therapy
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If you’re a child/adolescent mental health professional, then you probably have children and adolescents on your caseload who are reluctant to engage in therapy.
These children can be overwhelming and frustrating, even for seasoned therapists.
What can you do to engage them in sessions so you can help them?
Knowing how to use play therapy strategies effectively can make a huge difference to engage your young clients in the change process.
Join me for this week’s podcast episode with my guest, Liana Lowenstein, MSW.
Liana Lowenstein has worked in the child/adolescent mental health community for over 35 years and has helped thousands of professionals use strategies that work.
She’s an internationally recognized expert and her 14 books are used by mental health professionals all over the world. You won’t want to miss this dynamic podcast episode.
My guest, Liana Lowenstein, and I will be discussing reasons why children can be difficult to engage in treatment and how to help them.
Join my free Facebook Community Play and Expressive Arts Therapy Playground.
Check out my free resources for mental health professionals working with children, adolescents, and families who want to integrate play therapy and expressive arts into their clinical work.
I work with individuals and agencies to develop successful strategies and meet the treatment needs of your child and adolescent clients and their families using play therapy & expressive arts.
Contact me to schedule a free 30-minute video call if you're ready to level up your skills
Chapters
1. How to Engage Challenging Children in Play Therapy (00:00:00)
2. Intro (00:00:01)
3. Today's topic (00:01:06)
4. Intro to Guest: Liana Lowenstein (00:02:12)
5. Reasons why some children are hard to engage in the therapy process (00:03:31)
6. Using Case Conceptualization in the beginning of play therapy (00:06:26)
7. Creative ways to engage challenging clients (00:13:03)
8. Tip #1 (00:14:00)
9. Tip #2 (00:15:56)
10. Tip #3 (00:17:16)
11. Tip #4 (00:17:59)
12. Why play therapy techniques are not therapy (00:19:59)
13. Role of neuroscience (00:21:43)
14. Tip #5 (00:24:06)
15. Tip #6 (00:26:06)
16. Liana Lowenstein Resources (00:29:28)
17. Outro (00:32:10)
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