Child Therapy

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of theories and approaches in child therapy and explores techniques and intervention strategies to treat a variety of psychological conditions in children and adolescents. It covers the treatment of child relationships, trauma and abuse assessment and reporting, dysfunctions, and healthy functioning. Additionally, this course addresses the family and the intrapsychic world and the development of the self of the child in the context of social, cultural, and economic factors. Somatic, neurodevelopmental and relationship-based therapy techniques for children and their families are covered. Case material introduces strategies of intervention from early childhood, school-aged, adolescence through transition-aged youth. Settings include: private practice, school-based and community mental health models of treatment. A focus will be placed on trauma-informed care as well as on engaging the child's systems of care to support resilience and change. Modalities explored may include: play therapy, Sandtray, Neurosequentially informed treatment, Sensorimotor informed psychotherapy, and ARC (Attachment, Regulation and Competency). RESTRICTED TO MA SOMATIC PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS