Bookings available for individual Play Therapy and workshops
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workshops for professionals
Providing developmentally and emotionally sensitive care to children and families in health environments
Do you want to learn more about providing care to children and families that minimises potential trauma?
Help your team to learn ways to work effectively and efficiently with children and families, so they choose to return to your service.
This workshop explores factors that impact engagement in healthcare for children and families, including:
- Approaches to support children and young people across various stages of development
- Working with children with diverse needs and disabilites - including neurodiversity, mental health, chronic health, developmental delay, developmental, and medical trauma
- Theoretical frameworks and practical strategies for working with children who present with anxiety in healthcare
- Positions of comfort - demonstration of comfort holds that support children and their carers, and minimise restrictive practice
- The impact of language - how healthcare providers can support children to feel engaged and in control, while continuing to deliver necessary treatment in a timely manner
- Recognising and managing vicarious trauma for healthcare staff
All workshops are designed specifically for your team and clinical environment. Custom-designed templates for your service to support engagement with children and families are included in the workshop fee.
Suitable for:
- Healthcare teams working in public or private settings
- Medical, dental, surgical, rehabilitation services
- Allied health clinics providing healthcare interventions
- Paramedical services
- Pathology clinics
- Imaging services
Supporting children with health conditions in the education environment
Do you care for children with health conditions in early education or school settings?
Would you like to know more about creating safe and educational spaces that enhance coping in medical settings for all children?
This workshop explores a range of practical strategies to support adjustment and medical coping, including:
- Establishing a dynamic and educational medical play area that enhances confidence, understanding and coping
- Increasing staff capacity to aid preparation for planned medical admissions, and support children post admission
- Supporting children who have a family member with a chronic health condition
- Supporting children following bereavement
- Re-integration following a traumatic or lengthy healthcare admission
- Recognising and managing vicarious trauma for staff
All workshops are designed specifically for your team and identified needs.
Suitable for:
- Early childhood centres
- Primary or secondary education settings
- Family day care
