Sandtray Therapy and Trauma Treatment with Children and Adolescents
Presenter: Robert Aikin, LICSW
Date: April 25, 2012
Time: 9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.
Cost: Regular rate $185.00; Group/Student rate $166.50
Location: The Trauma Center, 1269 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
Sand tray therapy is an expressive therapy that promotes healing as clients create “worlds” through the use of sand, water, and symbolic miniature figurines. Sand tray therapy is an effective approach for processing traumatic material. Children and adolescents who experience complex trauma are often unable to give voice to what has happened to them. Sand tray therapy allows these clients to process traumatic material through an active, non-verbal, sensory experience that provides a safe, contained space. The use of the sand tray creates distance from the trauma, provides an “as if” character to the processing and gives control of the therapeutic process to the client.
This workshop will introduce clinicians to the use of sand tray therapy in trauma processing with children and adolescents. Using lecture, slides of actual sand trays, and experiential exercises, participants will become familiar with the history of sand tray therapy, its application for trauma treatment and its use in trauma processing. Participants will develop the skills to process sand trays through examining sand tray worlds created by children who experienced complex trauma, and by processing these trays. An experiential exercise will provide participants with the opportunity to role play and create group sand trays.
About the Presenter:
Robert Aikin is a Staff Clinician at our Brookline and Acton, MA locations. He has worked with children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma in a number of settings: school-based therapy, in-home family preservation, outpatient therapy, treatment foster care, and acute partial hospital programs. Robert directed residential programs for adjudicated youth, treatment foster care, and an outpatient mental health center. He received his Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh and a Certificate in Child and Adolescent Trauma Treatment at the University of Maryland. Additionally, Robert has trained in Attachment Therapy with Daniel Hughes and completed the live-supervised Family Therapy Training Program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.
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Regular Rate $185.00, click below
Group/Student Rate $166.50, click below
