343 | Art of the Session: A Complete Framework for Confident Practice

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You're listening to the Play Therapy Podcast with Dr. Brenna Hicks,

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your source for centered and focused play therapy coaching.

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Hi,

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I'm Dr. Brenna Hicks,

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The Kid Counselor.

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This is the Play Therapy Podcast where you get

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a master class in child-centered play therapy

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and practical support and application for your

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work with children and their families.

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Today's episode,

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we are finishing up Art of the Session.

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And I'd like to kind of do

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a recap,

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if you will,

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an overview

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of everything we talked about.

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This is one of the longest series we've ever done.

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So quite a bit of content in this series,

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but

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the goal of this entire series and even this episode

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is to give us

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not only a reminder

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but a refresher

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on the framework

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and the simplicity of the model,

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even though it is not easy to execute,

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we have a finite number of things that we should be doing

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and they can be put into a system.

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So that's my goal for this series and this episode,

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really kind of hone in on what does that look like and what can we practically do

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from start to finish.

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To make sure that our sessions with kids

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are exactly how they are intended to be.

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Before we dive in,

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this is your last chance,

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well,

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the last podcast episode about it,

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but

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this coming week,

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we are meeting in Houston.

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So if you have not,

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look,

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I know y'all,

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I because I'm the same way.

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If you wait till the last minute to do it,

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it only takes a minute to do.

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I get it.

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If you procrastinate like me and you're like,

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yeah,

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maybe I'll do that later,

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whatever,

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you're running out of time and I need a headcount.

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So in the show notes,

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please RSVP to the meetup.

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I know a lot of you have,

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just let me know you're coming because I need to be prepared,

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and I don't want to be at the last minute taking a minute to do something.

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So please don't do that to me.

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Hurry up,

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RSVP.

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All right.

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So let's talk through everything

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in this series,

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a little recap,

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if you will.

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Setting up the playroom,

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we have to be intentional

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about how it is arranged,

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what is included,

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what toys are in there,

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and it needs to be thoughtful,

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there's purpose.

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think about the three categories,

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think about the layout,

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toys are selected,

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not collected.

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No technology,

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no screens,

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agenda driven or leading guiding kind of electrical toys.

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So remove batteries from anything that's going to distract the child from

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organic play.

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And the playroom needs to be neutral.

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Don't decorate it,

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don't put art up on the walls.

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It needs to feel like it is ideal for every single child.

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Every child that walks in there

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should be able to make it their own.

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And everything about it is purposeful.

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When they walk through the door.

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You have an opportunity.

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have a conversation

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from the second they step foot into your lobby or your

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waiting room or your office or whatever it is,

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wherever you first interact with them.

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You have an opportunity

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to be very

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intentional about what that's like.

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You get down on their level,

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you make eye contact,

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you make the focus on the child.

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You help them feel that they are the most important

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thing to you during that hour because they are.

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And you want to say hello and you're happy to see them

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and you want it to be very clear,

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you have been looking forward to this meeting.

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And this is also when you engage with parents because

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you have to build a relationship with them too,

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but the primary function is that we make it really clear to the child

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that you

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are exuding the be with attitudes

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as soon as you see them.

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Then you can make it part of your process

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to walk back to the session with empowerment choices.

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So what can you do?

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What can you work in

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so that you can provide empowerment choices?

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You can choose for them to wash their hands in a certain location,

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you can choose for them to use sanitizer.

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You can choose for them

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to go up the elevator or the stairs.

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You can choose for them to turn on the light or you turn on the light.

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You can choose for them to shut the door or you shut the door.

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There are all kinds of options.

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So that as part of the standard

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process,

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consistency,

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predictability,

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stability for kids.

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They know exactly what you're going to say,

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they know exactly what to expect,

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and they're going to make choices accordingly.

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Then when they walk through the playroom door.

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You have a very intentional dialogue.

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Welcome back to the playroom.

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So happy to be with you.

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This is your time,

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you're in charge.

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You can choose to play with all the toys in most of the ways that you want.

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That is the mark of when they get to be in charge from there forward.

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That is the signal,

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if you will,

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that we've transitioned away from,

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I'm walking you back and I'm still kind of the authority figure,

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and we're talking about random things,

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but as soon as this phrase is communicated.

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I'm no longer anything other than the

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therapeutic guide rail for you.

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And this is your hour to do what you need to do.

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Then you have the framework for the session.

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We have

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a limited number of responses.

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I think we overcomplicate this,

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and I,

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I've been saying this a lot lately.

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I think we overthink,

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and I think that we stress ourselves out about

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all the things that we're supposed to be doing.

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there's only a handful of things that we're ever going to say.

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We have

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the 4 pillars.

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We have the reflective responses.

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And we have a few other phrases.

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This is really important because if we realize

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I'm only ever going to be saying one of 11 things,

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it doesn't feel nearly as overwhelming.

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So let's very quickly just kind of

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recap what those are.

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We're going to use one of the three reflective responses.

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We're going to track behavior,

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reflect content,

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reflect feelings.

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Say what you see.

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Say what is said.

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Say what they express or feel.

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There's simplicity in it,

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those can always be given.

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No matter what,

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one of those

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is always appropriate.

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And if they're not saying anything

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and they're not expressing anything emotionally,

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then your default is tracking behavior.

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You can have those in your back pocket to pull out at any moment.

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If you are ever at a loss for what you should be saying.

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One of the reflective responses

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be your opportunity to communicate something.

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Beyond that,

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we have the pillars.

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Now,

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reflecting feelings is one of the pillars,

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so there's crossover in the reflective responses in the pillars.

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The additional three pillars.

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We can provide choices.

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We already have talked about empowerment choices on the way back.

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We can provide choices within the session as well.

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Choices are also a part of limits.

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So if a limit is necessary,

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choices are worked into

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the limits that are set as well.

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Those are enforcement choices.

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So we can provide choices for empowerment.

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We set limits when necessary.

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And we use encouragement and esteem building.

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Encouragement is the actual pillar of esteem building is a related concept.

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We're going to consistently.

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Encourage

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the effort.

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The contributions.

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What they are

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doing in a session,

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not about the outcome.

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Never about the outcome.

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And esteem building responses are acknowledging what

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the child is actively working on.

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You're not giving up.

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You have a plan.

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You're working on it.

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You're figuring it out.

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Encouragement.

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You did it.

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You got it.

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You knew what to do.

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Those are huge boosts of confidence for a child.

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And then the following are some guidelines,

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not necessarily a skill,

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but certainly something that

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want to

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engage in these ways in the sessions

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from Axline and or Landreth.

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If you

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need more info on these,

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you can go back to the CCPT Purism series.

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But one of the other things that we do is follow the metaphor.

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We are always trying to continue what the child has given us to work with.

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If they say that

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something is

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a ship,

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we continue to say that's a ship.

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We don't label things.

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So we're going to say that and it and those.

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Instead of

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the dog

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because it might not be a dog.

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We're going to remain neutral.

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Our responses are always neutral.

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They're not charged,

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they're not emotional.

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They are factual declarations.

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Birthed out of neutrality.

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And we don't ever impart wisdom or teach or preach or instruct.

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We do not possess what the child does not possess.

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So we have no knowledge,

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no understanding,

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no awareness that the child doesn't either.

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Then we provide narrative commentary.

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Narrative commentary is

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additional option

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instead of just tracking behavior all the time.

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So instead of saying you picked that up.

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Narrative commentary might be,

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you grabbed it and you're moving it all the way over there.

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It's an observational dialogue

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about what's taking place,

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bigger picture.

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I wonder and whisper technique.

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I wonder statements exclusively used when we need a cue.

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If you use an I wonder statement in any other context,

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it is not CCPT.

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We reserve those exclusively

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for when a child is needing to

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direct us to do something,

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and we are unsure about what we should say or do next.

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I wonder what the robber does.

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I wonder how I cut this paper.

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we use an I wonder statement.

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do we wonder.

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And that can be coupled with and or an additional option is the whisper technique.

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So anytime we need to know something,

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What do I do now?

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how do we engage in role play?

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We have to be invited in.

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Sometimes we wait because we tend to push the pace.

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now we're going to do this,

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we try to jump ahead to figure out what comes next.

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for directives.

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Everything about role play is child led.

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So we wait and we get cues

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and we respond accordingly.

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What all of that means.

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We've spent 16 sessions on this.

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I suppose,

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in Art of the Session.

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the goal for this entire series

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is to give us the foundation.

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so that we feel confident.

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I know exactly

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what needs to happen.

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To have a session with a child.

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CCPT is hard.

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It's simple,

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but it's hard.

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And sometimes we need

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some

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ground beneath us.

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If I do this,

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and then I do this,

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and then I do this,

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and then I do this.

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I know that I'm adherent to the model.

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It takes away some of the unknown.

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It takes away some of the confusion.

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But I want to be really clear.

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I know how this goes,

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because I coach so many

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therapists that I,

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I see this happen all day every day.

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If I do this and I do this and I do this and I do this.

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we have objectives.

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there are skills.

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there's a framework.

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But at the end of the day

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we are not doing,

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we are being.

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is that we

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are managing what we need to be doing

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in execution.

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But making sure that that is not the focus.

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The focus is

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the being.

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We are child-centered.

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We embody child-centeredness.

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Relationship and environment.

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Always

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and forever.

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Are the two most important things.

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So Art of the Session,

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we need to know how to execute these things,

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and there are things that we do.

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Yet at the same time.

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is that this helps us be CCPT.

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Because when you're all in,

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you are CCPT.

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So let that be an encouragement to y'all.

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We are officially done.

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We are moving into some individual topics

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so that we can have a little bit of a break before we dive into a new series,

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and there are quite a few things that have been coming up pretty regularly lately

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that I know many of you are wondering about and asking about,

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so we're gonna tackle some of those

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individual topics for several weeks.

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Thank you all so much for the feedback from the series.

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Thank you for listening faithfully.

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I've been getting emails literally from all over the world.

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I've had people joining the Collective from all over the world,

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and the common thread in every single one of the people is,

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I am so hungry.

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To be the best that I can be at this.

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And that is at the heart of this podcast for

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every single minute that you spend listening to these episodes.

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For every minute

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that you work on

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being CCPT.

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It's for you,

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but in the grand scheme,

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it's for your kids.

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And it's for their future,

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and it's for their well-being,

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it's for their families,

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it's for the cyclical change that will come out of that.

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It's for the communities in which they live.

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My long running

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vision

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is a world full of happy kids that become happy adults.

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We don't get there

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Unless we have people

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that are CCPT.

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That are serving kids and their families.

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And so every minute that you spend with this podcast,

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I am grateful,

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I am thankful.

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And I know the impact that this is having

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on kids all over the world

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and what a blessing for me,

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what a blessing for us,

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what a blessing for children and their families

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and 50 years from now when these kids have grandkids.

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There's a ripple,

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and we know that

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they become catalysts for change long term.

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What a special thing to be a part of.

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So I very much appreciate y'all.

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Thank you for being so committed to this

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and

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CCPT is amazing,

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as you know.

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We'll talk again soon.

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I love y'all.

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Bye.

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Thank you for listening to the Play Therapy Podcast with Dr.

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Brenna Hicks.

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For more episodes and resources,

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