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CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
​CBT is a form of talk therapy designed to help people recognize unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and learn how to change them. Therapy focuses on the present and the future, rather than on the past.
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CBT for kids has practical everyday applications. This therapy can help your child understand the negativity of their thought patterns and learn how to replace them with more positive ones. Discovering new ways of looking at things helps a child learn how to respond differently and improve rather than worsen stressful situations.
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TF-CBT
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents impacted by trauma and their parents or caregivers.
It is a components-based treatment model that incorporates trauma-sensitive interventions with cognitive behavioral, family, and humanistic principles and techniques. TF-CBT has proved successful with children and adolescents (ages 3 to 18) who have significant emotional problems (e.g., symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, fear, anxiety, or depression) related to traumatic life events.
It can be used with children and adolescents who have experienced a single trauma or multiple traumas in their lives.
EMDR
Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing
Eye-movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapy proven to reduce symptoms related to anxiety, depression, addiction, phobias, trauma and PTSD, etc.
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EMDR has a direct effect on the way the brain processes information, releasing emotional experiences that are trapped in the nervous system.
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Therapists work with the individual to recall a disturbing thought, feeling or memory and then begin Bilateral Stimulation (such as: moving an object side to side). The disturbing memory is then reprocessed by the brain. This results in painful feelings being exchanged for more resolved, peaceful feelings for the patient.
TraumaPlay™
TraumaPlay™ is informed by our current understandings of the neurobiology of play and the neurobiology of trauma, and is built on the power of one to heal the other. Grounded in attachment theory, the child or family is met moment-to-moment as therapeutic needs are assessed. The framework of seven therapeutic treatment goals serve as the umbrella under which clinicians have freedom to employ a variety of interventions. A subset of goals related to enhancing the role of Parents as Partners expands clinicians’ finesse in integrating parents into trauma treatment.
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TraumaPlay™ allows room for both non-directive and directive approaches to be employed and incorporates clinically sound elements of other evidence based treatments such as Child Centered Play Therapy, Theraplay, and Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy, while offering original interventions that were developed in real-world clinical settings to maximize therapeutic absorption through every play-based learning portal.
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*Information made available by: TraumaPlay Institute
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S P A C E
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions
​The SPACE program is an alternative to traditional cognitive behavior therapy for childhood anxiety. Unlike CBT, SPACE involves parents and caregivers in treatment sessions instead of the child. Research has shown that SPACE is just as effective as CBT in reducing child anxiety. The program focuses on modifying parental behavior through psychoeducation, monitoring, and equipping caregivers with strategies to help their child cope with anxiety.
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Some of the main anxiety problems treated with SPACE include:
-Separation anxiety
-Social anxiety
-Generalized anxiety
-Fears and phobias
-Panic disorder and Agoraphobia
-Selective mutism
-Obsessive-compulsive disorder
PLAY in Therapy
Child play within therapy is a way of being with the child that honors their unique developmental level and looks for ways of helping in the “language” of the child – play. Licensed mental health professionals therapeutically use play to help their clients, most often younger children, to better express themselves and resolve their problems.
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Each item within the playroom is specialized and has a purpose in the treatment process. Kait utilizes play through sand-tray, dolls, dress-up items, puppets/stuffed animals, art supplies, Legos, board games etc.
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Specialties
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Trauma and PTSD
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Adoption and Foster care
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General Anxiety
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Emotional regulation
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Problematic Sexual Behaviors
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Sexual abuse
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Physical abuse
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Social Anxiety
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Separation Anxiety
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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Self Esteem
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Suicidal Ideation
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Depression