Description:

Trauma, once considered the exception, has become more and more ubiquitous, demanding a wider range of expertise from mental health professionals. This webinar will provide an overview of the neuropsychological impact of trauma, highlighting why

non-directive, non-verbal therapies such as Sandplay can be helpful in accessing, expressing, and working through traumatic content that eludes more traditional talk therapy approaches. How and why Sandplay therapy is effective in tapping repressed, unconscious material, providing a cathartic outlet through creative visual expression, and also bridges to the verbal through metaphoric and symbolic narrative will be elucidated and illustrated with child and adult case material.

Objectives:

• Identify at least three different aspects of the neuropsychological impact of trauma
• Explain why non-directive, non-verbal therapies can be helpful in accessing
• repressed traumatic content
• Explain at least three reasons why Sandplay therapy is uniquely effective in working with trauma
• Identify at least 3 common symbols associated with traumatic experiences that commonly appear in Sandplay
• Analyze symbolic expression of accessing and working through trauma in a series of at least 5 consecutive sandtrays
• Identify at least 3 common symbols associated with resilience, recovery, and hope that commonly appear in Sandplay

Presenter: Betty Jackson, LSW, CST-T

Betty Jackson is an LSW (licensed social worker) in Pennsylvania, an LGSW in Maryland, and a CST-T (Certified Sandplay Therapist – Teacher through Sandplay Therapists of America) with over 35 years of experience in school, mental health agency, and private practice settings. She began her Sandplay training with Dora Kalff in 1975 and became a Teaching Member of Sandplay Therapists of America in 1991. She has presented nationally and internationally and authored several articles for the Journal of Sandplay Therapy. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the International Society for Sandplay Therapy and coordinates Sandplay training in the Mid-Atlantic region. Ms. Jackson works as a child & family therapist for Upper Bay Counseling & Support Services in Maryland and maintains a private practice in Christiana, PA.

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CONTINUING EDUCATION

Continuing Education Approval for Licensed Mental Health Counselors/Social Workers/ School Psychologists/MFCCs/Play Therapists/Art Therapists 

SOCIAL WORKERS

Chesapeake Beach Professional Seminars (CBPS) is approved by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners to sponsor Category I continuing education programs. Social Work Boards in most states accept this approval status. 

LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS

Chesapeake Beach Professional Seminars (CBPS) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5763. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CBPS is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS 

Chesapeake Beach Professional Seminars (CBPS) is approved by the National Association of School Psychologists to offer professional development for school Psychologists, provider #1067. CBPS maintains responsibility for the program. 

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS  

The Maryland and Washington, DC Boards of Psychology Examiners Recognizes national Association of School Psychologist approval status with CBPS and grants CE hours to clinical psychologists in Maryland and Washington, DC.

PLAY THERAPISTS

Chesapeake Professional Seminars (CBPS) is an Association for Play Therapy (APT) approved provider of continuing education, APT Approved Provider #97-034.

ART THERAPISTS

Art Therapists (LCAT, ATR-BC) may obtain CE Hours based on our NBCC approval status.

NEW YORK SOCIAL WORKERS, LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICIONERS, and PSYCHOLOGISTS

CBPS is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s Board of Social Work, Provider #0122; and the Board of Mental Health Practitioners, Licensed Mental Health Counselors. CBPS is also approved for psychologists in NY Provider Number: #PSY-0070.