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Digital Seminar

Polyvagal Theory for Children

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Do you know therapists who seem to have “the magic touch” when it comes to getting children to trust and connect with them?  

What if there are actual behaviors that you can learn and incorporate into your way of being with children that can solicit openness, relaxation and trust?  

Join Dafna Lender, LCSW, for this compelling session, as she walks you through the complexities of using polyvagal theory with your young clients. Using your own social engagement system and tuning into the child’s physiological state you’ll learn:  

  • Sending safety messages to brains of mistrusting kids make them more open to new relational experiences Voice, rhythm, facial expressions and touch elicit trust   
  • Exercises and activities make shutdown, guarded or angry clients more relaxed and ready to connect   
  • A tool for assessing quality of a parent/child's interaction and compatibility from a polyvagal perspective  
  • To help parents identify where they are and where their child is from a nervous system perspective  

Here's What You'll Learn

Harnessing your Social Engagement System  

  • How to Reset when Compromised by Stress and Trauma  
  • Elicit Trust - Voice, Rhythm, Racial Expressions, Touch  
  • Create and maintain an open facial expression with defensive children  

Strategies to incorporate safe touch  

Movement and Breathing Exercises to Create Connection  

Rhythmic activities for maintaining regulation  

Counteracting shut down, guarded or angry behavior (responses)  

Setting up a Vagal Match Assessment to analyze the quality of parent-child's relationship from polyvagal perspective  

Guided steps for helping parents become aware of their own nervous system triggers so  

Helping parents calm their nervous system so they can be more regulated with their children 

Risks and limitations 

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 2 hours of video content
  • Up to 2.5 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Dafna Lender, LCSW

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Dafna Lender, LCSW, is an international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and an EMDR therapist. Dafna’s expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families with attachment in many settings: at-risk after school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care and private practice. Dafna’s style, whether as a therapist or teacher, is combining the light-hearted with the profound by bringing a playful, intense and passionate presence to every encounter. Dafna is the author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy (2023) and co-author of Theraplay® - The Practitioner’s Guide (2020).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dafna Lender maintains a private practice. She is a published author and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dafna Lender has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059914
Duration:
2 hours, 30 minutes
Copyright:
Aug 08, 2024
Format:
Audio and Video

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