Telling Kids the Truth About Trauma
Building Narrative Coherence in Families with TraumaPlay™
- Speaker:
- Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-S™
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 30 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Apr 24, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150672
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Parents and caregivers often avoid difficult truths, believing they’re protecting their child – yet this avoidance leaves children confused, lonely, and disconnected from their own stories. This session will give you the tools to help families break through the silence, speak the unspeakable with sensitivity, and build narratives that restore safety and connection.
You’ll learn how to:
- Support caregivers in moving past avoidance to create developmentally sensitive narratives that heal rather than harm
- Transform posttraumatic play into pathways for truth-telling and coherence
- Use attachment-grounded explanations to strengthen caregiver-child connection
Credit
Speaker
Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-S™ Related seminars and products
Nurture House
Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-S™ and approved EMDR consultant, is the creator of TraumaPlay™, the executive director of the TraumaPlay Institute, the clinical director of Nurture House, and an adjunct instructor of psychiatric mental health at Vanderbilt University. She is a Ted Talk speaker, a master clinician, a thought leader in the fields of child trauma and play therapy globally, has received the APT award for Play Therapy Promotion and Education, and served as the executive director of the Lipscomb Play Therapy and Expressive Arts Center. She is on the board of TNAPT and has written over twenty chapters and articles as well as twelve books, including Trauma and Play Therapy, Parents as Partners in Child Therapy, Big Behaviors in Small Containers, and her newest edited volume Polyvagal Power in the Playroom. Paris delights in serving traumatized children and families locally, loves to travel with her family, and finds great joy in equipping child trauma therapists all over the world.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Paris Goodyear-Brown maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with TraumaPlay Institute, Vanderbilt University, and Nurture House. She receives royalties as a published author and compensation as a consultant. Paris Goodyear-Brown receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Paris Goodyear-Brown is a member of the Association for Play Therapy and the National Association of Social Workers.
Additional Info
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Objectives
- Describe when and why trauma disclosure is developmentally appropriate, distinguishing between protective silence and harmful avoidance.
- Evaluate caregiver readiness cues and resistance patterns to know when to support or delay narrative sharing.
- Construct developmentally sensitive narrative scaffolds (questions, metaphors, pacing) that help children reclaim their story safely.
Outline
- Introduction to Narrative Work within the TraumaPlay™ Framework
- How do Children Tell their Truth?
- Posttraumatic Play and Pathways of Pursuit
- Two Transformative Questions
- How do we work with Incongruency in Caregivers
- Attachment grounded explanations for caregivers
- Parents as Partners and Techniques for working with Caregiver Challenges
- Guidelines for crafting developmentally sensitive narratives
- Risks and limitations of research and techniques
Case examples will be woven throughout
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
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