HVPI: Childwork/Child Play: Psychodrama & Action Methods with Children

Trainer: Rebecca Walters

October 28-30, 2010
Thursday 6 P.M.-9 P.M., Friday and Saturday 9 A.M. - 5 P.M.
Location: Ulster County, NY
overnight accommodations are available

Psychodrama is a natural and powerful method for helping troubled, abused and traumatized children tell their stories, safely express strong feelings and try out new behaviors and roles. This professional training will offer participants the opportunity to learn adaptations of the psychodramatic method that work especially well with groups of children ages seven though twelve. Many of these structures can be adapted to work with individuals and families.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN!

Participants will explore and experience structures that allow for the safe acting out of children's hopes, fears and difficulties through the use of:

a.. Fairytales
b.. Storytelling
c.. Sociodrama
d.. Personal life stories
e.. Group-created stories
Participants will practice variations of therapeutic action techniques that work with children such as:
a.. Doubling
b.. Multiple doubling
c.. Role playing
d.. Playback theater
e.. Inner and outer circle
f.. Family sculpting
g.. Role training for new behavior

The use of group ritual and structures for safety and containment will be demonstrated.

Ways to address the difficulties inherent in using psychodrama with children will be discussed.

FEE
$300 IF REGISTRATION AND FEE ARE POSTMARKED BY October 1, 2010; $350 AFTER.

REFUND POLICY
4 weeks notice: 100% refund

2 weeks notice: 50% credit towards future HVPI trainings

~Space is limited...register early to avoid being closed out~

This training offers 16 Continuing Education Credits towards national credentialing by National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC), National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC), NYS OASAS, and towards re-certification requirements for the National Registry of Group Psychotherapists. This training offers hours towards certification by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy (ASGPP) and is accepted toward credentialing by the National Drama Therapy Association and the American Society for Experiential Therapists. Many of our students who are social workers have had these hours accepted towards their social work CEU requirements, but that is on a state by state basis.

TRAINER BIO

Rebecca Walters,M.S., TEP*, LMHC, LCAT is the founder and co-director of the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute in New Paltz, NY since 1989. She is the Director of Adolescent and Child Psychodrama Services at Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital in Westchester, NY, where she currently runs six psychodrama groups a week. She is also the director of the psychodrama internship program at Four Winds. Rebecca has run psychodrama groups with children, adolescents and adults since 1976.

Rebecca Walters is a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, and along with Judy Swallow was the recipient of the ASGPP 2005 Collaborators Award for her work in the fields of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy. She is certified as a *Trainer, Educator and Practitioner by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. She is licensed in NYS as a Creative Arts Therapist and as a Mental Health Counselor.

As a trainer she is known for her warmth, sensitivity, humor and clarity.

To Register: Please send a check made out to HVPI to the address above. Include a piece of paper with your name, phone number, email address and regular address.

Payment plans may be arranged upon request. It is now possible to pay with a major credit card.

Contact HVPI for more information.

Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute
68 DuBois Road
New Paltz, NY 12561

Ph: (845) 255 7502
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