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Joint PTUK & PTIrl 2007 Conference
Neuroscience, Play and Parenting
An international conference at All Hallows College - Dublin
June 17th - Keynote Address by Margot Sunderland
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The Neuroscience of Emotional Wellbeing and Play
An international conference and training event
linking the latest neuroscience research with play therapy and the
involvement of parents through filial play and TheraplayTM
Four main conference themes
The Neuroscience of Play - the scientific basis of our therapeutic work with children
Non-Directive Play Therapy - a child centred approach
Filial Play - coaching and mentoring parents in the use of non-directive
play
Theraplay Skills for Play Therapists - an attachment-based approach
using structured play
Who should attend?
Anyone who has an interest in working
therapeutically with children in: schools of all types; CAMHS teams;
Social Services; Counselling Services; Adoption & Foster Agencies;
Children's care homes; Children's charities; Hospitals; Primary Care
etc. Anyone who wants to help our children to enable their full
potential. Attendees are eligible for UK CPD points: BACP,
PTUK, PTI. International CE approval by APT and NBCC.
Everyone should attend June 17th to
broaden their knowledge of the application of neuroscience research
to working therapeutically with children. Essential CPD for Play
Therapists.
Attend the Certificate in Filial Play
Coaching & Mentoring 3-day course if you work with parents or
families. Discover how the filial therapy concept may be made
more acceptable ethically and practicable for parents and those
working with them.
Attend the 3-day post conference workshop if you wish to acquire a basic Play
Therapy 'Tool-Kit'.
Attend the 4-day Theraplay Skills to Complement Non-Directive Therapeutic Play
There is also TheraplayTM supervision on 16th June for those practising Theraplay skills.
Outline programme - Neuroscience of Play
Presenters
Venue & Accommodation
Pre & Post conference courses
Conference fees
Application Form
Outline programme
Sunday June 17th 2007
This day is a 'MUST' for all Play Therapy
practitioners and trainees. A unique opportunity to learn from
Margot Sunderland, the UK’s acknowledged authority on neuroscience in
the field of play therapy and child psychotherapy. Also
for anyone seeking evidence of the vital importance of play in the
development of the brain and mind.
THE NEUROSCIENCE OF PLAY
Ninety percent of what we know in neuroscience we have only known
over the last 15 years. But it is now becoming vital for child
professionals to keep up- to-date with the brain research directly
relevant to their work.
Margot Sunderland's key note address will give an over-view of the
long term effects, for better or worse, of adult-child interactions on
the developing emotional brain. Delegates will learn the awesome and
sobering fact that child counsellors and therapists can have a direct
effect on the actual wiring and long term chemical balance in children's
brains. This is because key emotional systems still being established in
childhood, are moulded by powerful one - to –one experiences. These
experiences not only develop minds but form brains. Margot will be
covering:
- The brain systems which are central to the work of a Play
Therapist - the PLAY system and the SEEKING system which are key for
emotional well-being.
- How adult-child play has a profoundly beneficial effect on
developing the emotional brain, enhancing emotionally regulating
functions, enabling children to naturally inhibit their primitive
impulses, and manage stress well.
- How interactive play can turn on the genetic expression of a very
important brain fertiliser in the higher brain, which helps programme
regions in the frontal lobes involved in emotional and social
intelligence.
- How foundational genetic system for joy unfolds dependent on the
interaction of certain genes with specific social experiences. How the
repeated activation of optimal levels of key emotion chemicals within
this system can enable a child to move-with ease and familiarity into
positive feeling states, and to access many other wonderful human
gifts, namely the capacity to be spontaneous, the drive and will to
follow a dream, and the ability to feel awe, wonder and delight.
- How the repeated activation of this system in childhood is also
linked in psychological strength in later life, leaving children far
more able, even under duress, to maintain or quickly regain a sense of
hope, optimism and a "Yes we can" attitude to life.
- That, if this system is not consistently and repeatedly activated
in childhood, it can be difficult to access it in later life, other
than artificially through harmful drugs or dangerous activities
Finally, in relation to these various brain systems, Margot will
discuss the neuroscience of ADHD, oppositional defiance and other
behavioural problems in both children and young people, using
neuroscientifically based case material as illustration.
As an introduction to the day, Monika Jephcott,
President of PTI will present the latest quantitative research on play
therapy outcomes based on over 1600 cases.
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Presenters
Prof. Margot Sunderland
Margot is Director of
Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health London, is
a British Medical Association award-winning author who has published
over twenty books in the field of child mental health. Several of her
books have been translated into many languages. Her internationally
acclaimed book, "The Science of Parenting" (Dorling Kindersley) is the
result of over ten years intensive research on thelong term effects of
parent- child interaction on the brain, involving over a thousand
scientific and psychological studies. The book is endorsed by one of the
world's leading affective neuroscientists namely Professor Jaak Panksepp,
Head of Affective Neuroscience Research, Chicago Institute for
Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch and Falk Center for Molecular
Therapeutics and Baily Endowed Chair in Animal Well-Being Science,
Washington State University Pullman, WA.
Margot is also the Chief
Executive and Founding Director of The Institute for Arts in Therapy and
Education (British accredited Higher and Independent Education College).
The Institute has over 300 students and has been running for twenty
years Margot has written syllabi for five Masters Degree programmes
(London Metropolitan University and University of Exeter awards). Two of
these Masters Degree programmes are unique in the field of child mental
health, namely MA Integrative Child Psychotherapy and MA Education:
Emotional Literacy for Children.
Margot is also a registered
Child Psychotherapist with over twenty years experience of working with
children and families. She is founder of the "Helping Where it Hurts'
programme which offers free arts therapy to troubled children in
Islington Primary schools. She directed the Gulbenkian funded research
study, which in liaison with University of Cambridge, measured outcomes
for this intervention.
Margot makes regular TV and
radio appearances as a child and parenting expert Overall, she is
concerned to ensure that parents, teachers and mental health
professionals alike, are offered the most up to date neuroscientific and
psychological research on how children and young people can be enabled
to thrive. She is passionate about social change for a kinder, warmer
world.
Dr David Myrow and Dr Susan Bundy-Myrow
Dr David Myrow is a Clinical
Psychologist practicing in West Seneca, NY, working with children,
families, and adults. He is a Professor of Child Psychotherapy and Play
Therapy with the International Board of Examiners of Child Therapists, a
Registered Association for Play Therapy Supervisor, and an Affiliate Trainer
of the Theraplay Institute in Chicago, where he trained with Ann Jernberg
and Phyllis Booth. Dr. Myrow has a special interest in the role of
attachment in healthy development. He is currently a Clinical Assistant
Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the State University of New
York at Buffalo. He is a founder of the Behavioral
Healthcare Network. His scholarly work has been published in a
variety of professional journals and books. Dr. Myrow has conducted
workshops for mental health and educational professionals in the United
States, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Finland.
Dr Susan Bundy-Myrow is a Counseling Psychologist in the United States who
has specialized in working with developmentally disabled children, teens,
and their families since 1979. She is a Professor of Child Psychotherapy and
Play Therapy with the International Board of Examiners of Child Therapists,
a Registered Association for Play Therapy Supervisor, and an Affiliate
Trainer of the Theraplay Institute in Chicago, where she trained with Ann
Jernberg and Phyllis Booth. A Certified Elementary and Special Education
Teacher, Dr. Bundy-Myrow earned a M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling at
Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the State
University of New York at Buffalo. In addition to her private practice, Dr.
Bundy-Myrow is a consultant to several pre-school and school-based programmes.
She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the
State University of New York at Buffalo. She is Secretary of the Board of
Directors of the Behavioral Healthcare Network. Dr. Bundy-Myrow has taught a
variety of workshops on play therapy for mental health professionals,
teachers, parents, and speech/language pathologists. She has presented to
professional groups in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Great Britain,
and Finland.
Monika Jephcott
Monika is an experienced, accredited
counsellor, psychotherapist, play therapist, individual and group
supervisor. Formerly a teacher, she has now become the UK's
foremost trainer in therapeutic play and play therapy with her work at APAC and PTUK. She was given the 2001 PTI award for her
contributions to play and child therapy. As President of PTI she
has co-ordinated the latest revisions to the International Standards for
Play Therapy and Filial Play. She is currently responsible for
over 500 play therapy students, worldwide.
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Pre & Post Conference Courses
Saturday June 16th 2007
One day Theraplay group supervision
Monday 18th - 20th June - 'Certificate in Filial Play Coaching & Mentoring'.
 A brand new
course designed to meet the latest international standards for Filial
Play. It is a prerequisite that attendees have at least a
Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills and 100 hours supervised clinical
work with children. (This is a specially condensed 3-day course
for those with therapeutic play experience and an accredited
qualification who wish to extend their practice to working with parents
and carers).
Monday 18th - 20th June - 'The Play Therapy Tool-Kit'
 This 3-day workshop is ideal for those who wish to start working safely and
effectively with children and also for experienced counsellors,
psychotherapists and clinical psychologists who wish to add therapeutic
play to their 'talking therapies' skills. The programme contains
many experiential and practical exercises including sandtray, music and movement.
Successful participants may use this course as a
first stage in acquiring an accredited Certificate in Therapeutic Play
Skills, a Diploma in Play Therapy and an MA in Practice Based Play
Therapy and Certificate in Filial Play Coaching and Mentoring.
Monday 18th - 21st June - Theraplay Skills to Complement Non-Directive Therapeutic Play
 School-aged children may manifest
insecure attachments with caregivers in various ways, including acting
out behaviors in school or at home, problems forming close peer
relationships, or withdrawal and depression. Often, parent-child
relationship insecurities lie at the heart of these difficulties. The
insecurities may be due to disrupted attachments, early trauma, or poor
parent-child relationships. This 4-day workshop introduces Theraplay
methods for assessing parent-child relationships and demonstrates
intervention strategies for resolving areas of concern. Participants
will be able to take away some specific techniques to augment their
non-directive work with children and families.
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Venue, Accommodation & Travel
The Venue
All Hallows College was the venue for the very successful 2005 Play Therapy Ireland Conference with over 250 delegates.
All Hallows is set in a quiet 15 acre, parkland campus near the centre of Dublin. It has an excellent environment for experiential therapeutic training.
A very limited number of bedrooms are available at All Hallows. Please apply to the College directly:
All Hallows College, Grace Park Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland
Tel: +353 1 837 3745 for bed and breakfast accommodation at the college enquiries only
Tel: +44 (0)1825 712312 for conference bookings
There are many restaurants, bed and breakfast accommodation and hotels in all price ranges within easy reach of All Hallows.
See www.dublintourist.com (North part of City)
Travel
All Hallows is located in Drumcondra,
close to the City Centre and near to Dublin Airport and the main Dublin
Ferry Terminal. It is well served by public transport and the M50
road network.
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Conference fees
Saturday 16th June 2005 - £100 or 150 Euros
Sunday 17th June 2005 - £100 or 150 Euros
3-day Course – 18th June – 20th ‘Certificate in Filial Play Coaching and Mentoring’ - 3 days - £300 or 150 Euros
3-day Course – 18th June – 20th ‘The Play Therapy Tool-Kit’ - 3 days - £300 or 150 Euros
4-day Course – 18th June – 21st ‘Theraplay Skills for Non-directive Play Therapists’ - 4 days - £400 or 600 Euros
1 day Theraplay Supervision - £100 or 150 Euros
PTIrl, PTUK, PTI and members qualify for a 10% discount off of the above rates.
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Application Form
Please download the MS Word application form available HERE, complete and return by post or email
to:
2007 Conference Office
PTUK & PTIrl
Fern Hill Centre
Fairwarp
East Sussex TN22 3BU
United Kingdom
Tel: 01825 712312
E-Mail: ptukorg@aol.com
Thank you.
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