Playful Parts: The Intersection of Play Therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS)

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Speaker

Carmen Jimenez Pride, LCSW, LISW-CP, ERYT, RCYT, RPT-S™ Related seminars and products

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The late Carmen Jimenez-Pride, was the creative mind behind Focus on Feelings®, an emotional literacy curriculum, a licensed clinical social worker, registered play therapist supervisor, certified AutPlay® therapy provider, certified EMDR therapist, registered children’s yoga teacher, certified IFS therapist, and a certified LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator.

Carmen was a trauma therapist experienced in the clinical treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with culturally diverse backgrounds addressing a wide range of concerns. Carmen’s career in the mental health field spanned more than 15 years.

She was an international speaker, award-winning best-selling author, and business consultant. Carmen was a visionary in the therapeutic community, working to create and develop a wide range of educational tools to assist the clinician, and the client to reach optimum goals. With a focus on cultural humility and cultural diversity, Carmen educated clinical professionals to address racial and cultural trauma within their clinical practices.

Carmen served as the South Carolina Association for Play Therapy President and was the recipient of the 2021 Association for Play Therapy Emerging Leader Award. She also served as the diversity and inclusion director of the Internal Sandtray Therapy Association.

Carmen was the developer of Diversity in Play Therapy Inc.; and the Diversity in Play Therapy Summit. She was also the developer and publisher of Focus on Feelings®.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Carmen Jimenez-Pride had employment relationships with Internal Family Systems Institute and Outspoken Counseling and Consulting, LLC. She was a published author and receives royalties. She received a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She had no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Carmen Jimenez-Pride was a member of the National Association for Addiction Professionals, National Association of Social Workers, and Association for Play Therapy.

 

Additional Info

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.

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Objectives

1. Apply the core concepts of the Internal Family Systems model.
2. Analyze the different types of parts within a child’s internal system: managers, firefighters and exiles.
3. Demonstrate the therapeutic powers of play therapy to improve client outcomes during therapeutic services.
4. Evaluate the goals of a child’s misbehavior.
5. Analyze the role and needs of the provider when facing challenges with children engaging in Internal Family Systems in the play therapy setting.
6. Utilize Internal Family Systems and play therapy concepts to increase the knowledge of parts work to improve the child’s level of functioning.
7. Apply play therapy and expressive arts techniques utilizing the Internal Family System model in a clinical setting.

Outline

• Foundational assumptions of the approach
• IFS concepts and terms
• Differentiate between managers, firefighters, and exiles
• Commonalities with other systems approaches
• Therapeutic benefits of parts work
• Cultural competence and humility

• The 6 F’s – how to identify and understand protective parts
• Recognize and honor the role of each part
• The 8 C’s – qualities of self-energy and their role in IFS
• The non-pathologizing essence of IFS
• Understanding your own parts as the therapist

• Why play therapy model lends itself seamlessly to IFS treatment outcomes
• How IFS and play help access and heal wounded parts
• Talk to kids about their internal world from IFS perspective
  • Relationship between protective parts and exiles
• Exploring parts with external representation in play therapy
• Limitations of the research, potential risks

• Sandtray therapy – bringing the internal to the external
• Expressive arts – giving language and expression to experiences and parts
• LEGO® - based therapy – from internal to 3D
• Bibliotherapy – literature to express and understand the internal system
• Non-directive play therapy – staying core to the experiential concept of IFS and letting parts speak for themselves
• And more!

Target Audience

• Social Workers
• Counselors
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• School Administrators
• Play Therapists
• Teachers/School-Based Personnel