Fw: Psychodrama with Children

[HV Psychodrama]

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CHILDWORK/CHILD PLAY:
Action Methods with Children's Groups:
Psychodrama, Sociodrama and Playback Theater
 
Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute in Berkeley, California
December 1-2, 2006 
Friday and Saturday 9A.M. - 5 P.M.


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.



LOCATION
This workshop will take place in Berkeley, California. Directions and overnight accommodation info will be sent upon receipt of registration.



FEE
$260 IF REGISTRATION AND FEE ARE POSTMARKED BY October 19, 2006, $300 AFTER. 

Lunch included.

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~



CEUS

Continuing education units provided by this training are accepted by National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC), National Board of Certified Counselors and towards recertification requirements for the National Registry of Group Psychotherapist as well as 14 hours towards certification by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy.



14 CEUs for MFT, LCSW & RN ($15 additional fee).
Sylvia Israel, provider, approved by CA Board of Registered Nurses, 
#CEP 11733 & CA Board of Behavioral Science for MFT and LCSW, 
Provider #947. 

 

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 Westchster, NY, where she currently runs six psychodrama groups a week with children ages five through eight, nine through twelve, eleven through fourteen and thirteen through seventeen. 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.



This workshop is presented by the Imagine! Center for Creativity and Healing 

Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute
68 DuBois Road  New Paltz, NY 12561
(845) 255 7502   hvpi at hvc.rr.com
visit us at our website:  www.hvpi.net
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