Play therapy 101
A child's natural medium for expression and understanding the world.
What is play?
Fill in the blank: neurodevelopment is inherently _________________
What is sequential?
Treatment focus should be on ____ age, not chronological age.
What is developmental?
These 4 elements help build positive developmental experiences rooted in neurobiological processes.
_____ informs the primary associations that become the basis for attachment style and future relational preferences, biases and capabilities.
Some key players in developing play therapy.
Any of these: Hermine von Hug-Hellmun, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Piaget, Erikson, Vygotsky, Landreth.
Eventually, through caregiver-led regulation, children will end up learning this
What is self-regulation?
Any of these (or others!):
Manifestations = PTSD symptomology + increased muscle tone, language disorders, cognitive deficits, memory problems, and hyperactivity + nearly all other DSM diagnoses
This symbiotic, relational process is what happens when you are face-to-face, eye-to-eye and start to synchronize across bio-physiological domains.
What is co-regulation?
These type of networks in the brain originate in lower areas of the brain and distribute to all other areas of the brain, and, via neuroendocrine, neuroimmune and autonomic nervous system to the whole body.