Interventions for Family and Child Therapy: Using stories and children’s therapy books (5CE)

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Authors/Contributors

Leo DeBroeck, MS, LMHC, CMHS, MHP, CBT+ Certified

Course Description

This course will review information on using therapy books in clinical practice with families, youths, and children. Further, research and clinical experience on using written stories and therapy books will be reviewed. Skills are practiced on how to teach caregivers to use therapy books and “family story time” to process adverse stressors in an engaging and meaningful way. Considerations are given to different formats such telehealth or in-person work.

Families face considerable and unique challenges such as addiction, domestic violence, trauma, grief, community violence, and economic struggles. Unique challenges require tailored interventions that children’s therapy books can offer to meet the needs of the family and children.

Because of this, areas of focus will include the “Do and Don’t” of using therapy books, how to teach caregivers to use therapy books with their families, understanding risks, and going through a piece of example sessions using a therapy book with a child in three different om one-on-one sessions. Books on caregiver addiction, grief, and building self-confidence are used as the examples. Clinical interventions and strategies for using written stories are discussed.

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Course Learning Objectives

• Learner will be able to identify what a way to measure that the intervention is successful.
• Learner will be able to identify one way research has found using stories and therapy books can be helpful to clients.
• Learner will be able to identify one thing to avoid with clients when using stories and therapy books.
• Learner will be able to identify how to select and use a book at an appropriate engagement and maturity level for the client.
• Learner will be able to identify how to teach caregivers how to use stories in a healing way.
• Learner will be able to identify risks of using stories and children’s therapy books.
• Learner will be able to identify ways to be able to use story effectively in a one-on-one therapy session and adapt it to the client’s specific needs.
• Learner will be able to identify how to effectively process story endings and use Socratic questioning with clients

Course Requirements

You will be expected to review all materials provided and pass the post-test with a minimum of 80%, in order to receive your certificate of completion. You will also be required to complete a course evaluation. Once you have satisfactorily completed the post-test and submitted your evaluation, you will be able to download your certificate.