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Digital Seminar

AutPlay Therapy: Integrative and Affirmingly Adapt Approaches for Autistic Children


Speaker:
Robert Jason Grant, EdD, LPC, NCC, RPT-S™
Duration:
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
May 08, 2024
Product Code:
POS059840
Media Type:
Digital Seminar

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Description

Join Robert Jason Grant, Creator of AutPlay, and discover the distinct manifestations of trauma in autistic children.  You’ll learn: 

  • To effectively utilize the AutPlay Therapy framework to address the unique trauma needs of autistic children. 

  • Methods for integrating and adaptively applying other evidence-based play therapy trauma approaches, ensuring affirmation for autistic children. 

  • Relevant research exploring the intersection of trauma and autism, as well as insights into play therapy and trauma approaches 

  • Trauma from two angles in play therapy - the traditional view of trauma impact and recognizing autism/neurodivergence as a lived trauma response. 

 

Come engage in experiential play therapy techniques to fill your toolbox when working with trauma in autistic children. 

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Robert Jason Grant, EdD, LPC, NCC, RPT-S™'s Profile

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Dr. Robert Jason Grant is the creator of AutPlay® Therapy. He is a Licensed Mental Health Therapist, supervisor, and consultant. He utilizes several years of advanced training and his own lived neurodivergent experience to provide affirming services to children and their families. He is an international trainer and keynote presenter and multi-published author of several articles and books on the topics of child and play therapy and neurodiversity.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Robert Grant is the owner of AutPlay Therapy Clinic. He receives royalties as a published author. Robert Grant receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Robert Grant is a member of the American Counseling Association, the American Mental Health Counselors, the Association American Counseling, the Association of Missouri American Mental Health Counselors, and the Association of Missouri Association for Play Therapy.


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Objectives

  1. Analyze the AutPlay Therapy framework three step process to help autistic children who are struggling with trauma issues.  
  2. Inspect various reasons play therapy is appropriate for addressing trauma.  
  3. Demonstrate at least three play therapy interventions that help autistic children develop regulation ability. 
  4. Employ the five-paradigm process of autism as a trauma response in play therapy.

Outline

AutPlay Therapy Framework Three Step Process 

  • The Person of the Child: Understanding, Relationship, and Safety Work in Play Therapy
  • Regulation Work (key considerations) 
  • Emotion Recognition and Expression Work (alexithymia)  

  

Five-Paradigm Process of Autism as a Trauma Response in Play Therapy

  • Social Trauma 
  • Sensory Trauma 
  • Stigma Trauma (Ableism) 
  • Treatment Trauma 
  • Medical Trauma 

  

Formal Trauma Protocols and Autistic Children in the Play Therapy Room

  • Knowing the autistic child (spectrum presentation) 
  • Filtering protocols for ableist content 

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Marriage and family therapists
  • Nurses
  • Physicians 
  • Play therapists 
  • Psychologists
  • Social workers

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