“This is a safe place”: Using Relationship Based Play Therapy in CPP to Increase Safety

This workshop will focus on the use of dyadic play therapy as a treatment modality used to help the child and parent to learn to understand and verbalize thoughts and feelings associated to the traumatic experiences. For younger preverbal children, dyadic play therapy promotes the expression of feelings though symbolic play. Encouraging play, reciprocity, and shared affect between the parent and the child is an important part of the process of CPP. In this workshop, the use of play therapy will be explored as a means to create a sense of physical and psychological safety. In this workshop, CPP case examples will be applied to enhance practice.