EMDR Therapy for Children and Adolescents
ONLINE TRAINING WITH MEGAN BOARDMAN
8 hours
Treating traumatized children can be overwhelming. Their intense emotions, challenging behaviors, and pain are compounded by a lack of trust in others…even those they want most to be loved by. In this EMDR training, you will learn to provide a sense of safety and security needed for children/adolescents to heal. You will broaden your EMDR skills so you can help children/adolescents safely process and integrate traumatic events, reduce their most distressing symptoms, and build their sense of self and trust in others. This EMDR training for children and adolescents will give you the tools and strategies you need to identify symptoms of trauma in children and adolescents, adapt the 8-phase EMDR therapy protocol for improved outcomes, help build children and adolescents ability to express and regulate their emotions, and identify parental/caretaker interventions to utilize within a family systems perspective. This in depth training will help you identify the impact the psychosocial environment has on attunement, attachment and development.
DATE AND TIME
November 16th - 17th, 2023
h. 3pm - 7pm (CEST time)
Outline:
1. Brain regions affected by trauma in children and adolescents
a. Learn how the brain is impacted from trauma and attachment deficits.
b. Assess the developmental impact of early traumatic experiences on the brain.
c. Identify areas of the brain that are restricted when trauma occurs in children and adolescents.
d. Identify basic ways to re-engage the brain after a trauma response.
2. Fundamental trauma screening techniques for children and adolescents
a. Identify assessment and stabilization tools for children and adolescents who have experienced trauma.
b. Learn trauma assessment tools specific to children and adolescents.
c. Identify children and adolescents dissociative assessment tools.
d. Identify caregiving assessment tools and strategies.
e. Identify somatic based screening techniques.
3. Grounding and coping strategies for managing trauma responses
a. Identify indicators for when a client has achieved sufficient stability for trauma work
b. Learn how to apply EMDR Therapy to sessions specifically with children and adolescents.
c. Assess how EMDR is able to target trauma and attachment deficits with children and adolescents.
d. Identify dual awareness techniques specific for children and adolescents.
e. Learn specific resourcing strategies and interventions for children and adolescents.
4. EMDR resourcing skills to increase clients’ sense of regulation. Learn titrate exposure from intense emotional responses to states of somatic grounding.
b. Identify somatic and sensory approaches to treat physical symptoms of trauma.
c. Assess the association between the brain and body as it relates to trauma in childhood and adolescents.
d. Identify the ways that trauma is re-experienced with children and adolescents.
5. Education and Strategies to work through attachment deficits
a. Develop advanced skills to identify and treat attachment concerns.
b. Utilize preparation strategies that are applicable to attachment relationships or deficits.
c. Learn how to incorporate play and integrative hands on approaches that are suitable for children.
6. Clinical Treatment
a. Learn how prenatal stress and how parental psychosocial stressors impact development.
b. Develop parental/caretaker engagement strategies.
c. Identify how to facilitate attunement in parental and child relationships.
d. Identify how to improve quality of parent/child interactions.
1. Brain regions affected by trauma in children and adolescents
a. Learn how the brain is impacted from trauma and attachment deficits.
b. Assess the developmental impact of early traumatic experiences on the brain.
c. Identify areas of the brain that are restricted when trauma occurs in children and adolescents.
d. Identify basic ways to re-engage the brain after a trauma response.
2. Fundamental trauma screening techniques for children and adolescents
a. Identify assessment and stabilization tools for children and adolescents who have experienced trauma.
b. Learn trauma assessment tools specific to children and adolescents.
c. Identify children and adolescents dissociative assessment tools.
d. Identify caregiving assessment tools and strategies.
e. Identify somatic based screening techniques.
3. Grounding and coping strategies for managing trauma responses
a. Identify indicators for when a client has achieved sufficient stability for trauma work
b. Learn how to apply EMDR Therapy to sessions specifically with children and adolescents.
c. Assess how EMDR is able to target trauma and attachment deficits with children and adolescents.
d. Identify dual awareness techniques specific for children and adolescents.
e. Learn specific resourcing strategies and interventions for children and adolescents.
Megan Boardman
4. EMDR resourcing skills to increase clients’ sense of regulation. Learn titrate exposure from intense emotional responses to states of somatic grounding.
b. Identify somatic and sensory approaches to treat physical symptoms of trauma.
c. Assess the association between the brain and body as it relates to trauma in childhood and adolescents.
d. Identify the ways that trauma is re-experienced with children and adolescents.
5. Education and Strategies to work through attachment deficits
a. Develop advanced skills to identify and treat attachment concerns.
b. Utilize preparation strategies that are applicable to attachment relationships or deficits.
c. Learn how to incorporate play and integrative hands on approaches that are suitable for children.
6. Clinical Treatment
a. Learn how prenatal stress and how parental psychosocial stressors impact development.
b. Develop parental/caretaker engagement strategies.
c. Identify how to facilitate attunement in parental and child relationships.
d. Identify how to improve quality of parent/child interactions.
Megan Boardman
