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Building Healthy Parent-Child Relationships through Attachment-Based Play
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Children, regardless of their backgrounds, require a safe environment to grow and connect with others.
Play-based methods of engagement tap into children’s natural medium to provide moments of learning, joyful connection, regulation, and positive connection.
The quickest and most powerful way to get to transformative moments with children is through interactive, face-to-face, reciprocal, cooperative interactions that rely on movement, rhythm, touch, a prosodic voice, and eye contact.
In our session, we'll utilize embodied play and mindfulness exercises to strengthen the bond, safety, and trust between parent and child. You’ll actively engage in:
- Powerful and transformative role of play in child development
- Therapeutic foundations of play-based activities
- Critical child resilience-building and playful interventions for engagement
- Involving parents as active partners and agents of healing
- Integrating movement, laughter, and spontaneity into practice
Dafna Lender, LCSW, The Theraplay Institute
Dafna Lender, LCSW, is an international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and an EMDR therapist. Dafna’s expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families with attachment in many settings: at-risk after school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care and private practice. Dafna’s style, whether as a therapist or teacher, is combining the light-hearted with the profound by bringing a playful, intense and passionate presence to every encounter. Dafna is the author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy (2023) and co-author of Theraplay® - The Practitioner’s Guide (2020).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dafna Lender maintains a private practice. She is a published author and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from 小蝌蚪视频. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dafna Lender is an author for Psychotherapy Networker.