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Playful Curiosity for Building Resilience: 5 Essential Domains in Assessing Medical Trauma with Play Therapy

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Medical trauma often arises from a child’s experiences with illness, medical procedures, or long-term treatments, significantly affecting their emotional well-being and attachment. Play therapy provides a valuable framework for helping children process these complex feelings in a safe, supportive environment.

In this engaging session, experts Liliana Baylon, LMFT-S, RPT-S, and Maria Laquerre-Diego, LMFT, RPT-S, address the unique challenges of medical trauma in play therapy. They’ll provide practical, play therapy-based interventions designed to foster resilience and curiosity, creating a safe space for children to process and heal from challenging experiences.

In this play therapy training, you’ll learn to:

  • Assess Five Critical Domains Play Therapy:
    • Medical history, birth/genetic factors, perception of diagnosis, social media influence (including self-diagnosis), and resource availability (medical, familial, educational, therapeutic) within the framework of play therapy.
  • Integrate Assessments into Play Therapy:
    • Targeted play therapy strategies that encourage children to share their medical experiences and trauma, enhancing therapeutic conversations.
  • Recognize and Address Trauma Responses in Play Therapy:
    • Common trauma responses in children and adolescents with interventions to help them express their fears and anxieties effectively.

Equip yourself with essential play therapy tools to make therapeutic conversations with young clients more impactful, helping them navigate their medical journeys more confidently and resiliently.

Here's What You'll Learn

Medical Trauma: Foundations for Play Therapy Practice

  • Medical trauma and its impact on children's emotional health.
  • Signs and symptoms of medical trauma in play therapy settings.

Key Domains for Assessment in Play Therapy: A Comprehensive Framework

  • Evaluate medical history, birth/genetic history, perception of diagnosis/disability, social media influence, and resource availability.
  • Assessment tools for each domain to better understand client backgrounds.

Play Therapy Techniques: Engaging Young Clients in Healing

  • Specific play therapy interventions that align with each assessment domain.
  • Creative methods to facilitate conversations about medical experiences and emotional responses.

Social Media's Role: Navigating Modern Influences

  • How social media affects children's perceptions of health and illness.
  • Strategize ways to incorporate discussions of social media impact into play therapy sessions.

Trauma Responses: Fostering Expression and Resilience

  • Common trauma responses in children and adolescents related to medical experiences.
  • Play therapy techniques to help clients articulate their fears and anxieties in a safe space.

Risks and Limitations: Navigating Challenges in Practice

  • Potential risks associated with assessment techniques and play therapy interventions.

Everything You're Getting

  • 2 hours of video content
  • Up to 2.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Liliana Baylon, LMFT-S, RPT-S™

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Liliana Baylon, LMFT-S, RPT-S™ has a master’s degree in counseling & Marriage, Family & Child Therapy as well as an MBA from University of Phoenix in Colorado. Since entering the therapy field, Liliana has developed an interest and niche in treating children and families who have experienced trauma, and multicultural issues from an attachment lens. To better treat these populations, Liliana has received training in different modalities, some of which she is a trained educator.

Liliana is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, Synergetic Play Therapy Consultant, EFT Supervisor, EMDR Certified, TheraPlay Level 1, Independent Facilitator of the Becoming a Love and Logic Parent Curriculum, Bring Baby Home Gottman Trained Educator, Gottman Seven Principles Program Educator, completed Level 2 Training in Gottman Couples Therapy.

Liliana brings a unique cultural lens into her therapy and supervision sessions. Liliana is passionate about working with fellow mental health professionals to embrace curiosity, inspiration, and discover meaning to rise to their full potential from attachment to and cultural lenses. Liliana offers workshops in the field of mental health and cultural opportunity for psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers and consultations for agencies, schools, private practices, mental health centers & nonprofits in English and Spanish.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lilliana Baylon maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Healing Relationships Counseling SVC, PLLC. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lilliana Baylon is a member of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Colorado Counseling Association, the Association for Play Therapy, the EMDR International Association, Synergetic Play Therapy Institute, and the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150161
Duration:
2 hours
Copyright:
Jun 04, 2025
Format:
Audio and Video

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