Creative Intervention: Children of Divorce

Working with Children Impacted by Divorce & Separation in the Therapy Room

With parental divorce and separation on the rise, many children struggle with the grief, transitions, emotional disruptions, and (often) conflict associated with this process. This course will hive you concrete tools to help children and teens to heal and process this loss, and gain effective tools to manage their emotions. Creative engagement and assessment activities will be presented, and participants will learn how to implement strategies immediately into their practice

  • Describe how the parent-child attachment is impacted
  • Identify how divorce/separation effects children and parents, and situations parents should avoid during and after divorce/separation
  • Compile assessment tools to help the clinician better identify specific areas where a child is struggling
  • Prepare creative tools to integrate into your play therapy practice that helps children process their experiences related to divorce and separation
  • Discuss ways in which to assist parents in acquiring co-parenting skills that will protect children from emotional and psychological damage

Professional Membership with ICP

Making mental health training ACCESSIBLE & AFFORDABLE

  30+ Accredited Mental Health Courses for Counselling + Play Therapy ($4000 value)

  20+ General Mental Health Courses ($800 value)

  50+ Masterclasses ($400 value)

  Workbooks, scripts, and printables ($200 value)

  Access to our Certification Program

  Case Note Templates & Sample Consent Forms ($50 value)

  Bi-Monthly Professional Group Consults ($510 value)

  Recordings to our Bi-Annual Children’s Mental Health Summits ($200 value)

  Live Workshops & Webinars

  Resource Library

Meet Your Instructor: Tammy Schamuhn

Tammy Schamuhn is a Registered Psychologist, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, best-selling author, and the Co-Founder of the Institute of Child Psychology.

She has a Bachelors of Education from the University of Alberta and practiced as an Elementary Teacher in Canada before going on to do her Masters degree in Psychology. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Family Counselling Centres where she and her team treat children, adolescents, and their families through the use of a variety of types of therapies. Her clinic also utilized animals in their practice, as Tammy has developed a canine-assisted and equine-assisted therapy programs for treating children and teens. Furthermore, she also runs an extensive clinical internship program at her clinic where she trains masters-level interns who are training to become child psychologists, and provides clinical supervision to newly licensed provisional psychologists in the province of Alberta. She approaches her clinical and consultative work with parents and professionals with an attachment and neurobiological lens: all of her work is based on the neurology of the brain and how attachment is integral to adaptive functioning of both children and adults.

At ICP we are dedicated to offering quality professional development for mental health providers who work with children and youth. Through our work with hundreds of international providers, we saw that many of the trainings they needed to ethically treat children were either inaccessible or they’re simply unaffordable. . .

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