This event is hosted by Social Care Ireland. It is an interdisciplinary event in collaboration with the Association of Occupational Therapists in Ireland (AOTI) and the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT). It is funded by the National Health and Social Care Professionals Office (HSCP Office).
Working with attachment and trauma in a relational way has many inherent challenges – nowhere is this more prevalent and complex than in the field of health and social care. Carol Duffy has 20 years’ experience working in health and social care and 15 of those have been practicing as a child and adolescent psychotherapist specialising in play therapy.
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Carol Duffy is a child and adolescent psychotherapist and a senior play therapist in Tusla in Mayo. Carol is a core trainer on the MA in creative psychotherapy in the Children’s Therapy Centre in Westmeath and a clinical supervisor. Carol has recently made some chapter contributions and published blogs relating to her field. Carol has delivered training and facilitated workshops and published videos online on how to use play within existing practices for professionals including social care leaders, project workers, family support workers, managers, foster carers and social work teams. These workshops have been on the use of play to build, enhance and foster regulating relationships in practice and in families. The workshops are informed by neurobiology, attachment, understanding of developmental trauma and child development theories.
Over the years the need for a developmentally and neurobiologically informed model that allows for a flexible approach to the heterogeneity of individual’s needs, those with complex histories, became increasingly relevant and subsequently Carol developed the model the R.R.I.G.H.T. Play Therapy Technique
Listen to Carol’s podcast below on the importance of play with child and adolescent. Tune in now and discover why play is more than just fun its essential.
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In the event that the course is oversubscribed priority will be given to applicants who best demonstrate in their application: the benefit this training will have for service users and the benefit this training will have for their service and/or HSCP colleagues.
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