323 | What to Do When Time Is Up But the Child Isn't Regulated Yet

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In this episode, I respond to a question from Crystal, a school-based clinician in Minnesota, about how to end sessions when a child is emotionally dysregulated. Especially in settings like schools, where transitions can be abrupt and expectations are high, it can be tricky to support a child who's deeply engaged in therapeutic work but needs to return to class.

I walk through the importance of a decompression process and share how we build transition time into our sessions through rituals like handwashing and snack choices. I also talk about clinical judgment—recognizing when a child might need a few extra minutes or a gentler route back into their day—and how we can advocate with caregivers and teachers to protect that emotional space. If you've ever faced the challenge of ending a session while a child is still "in it," this episode offers validation, strategy, and a clear CCPT-aligned approach.

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Common References: Cochran, N., Nordling, W., & Cochran, J. (2010). Child-Centered Play Therapy (1st ed.). Wiley. VanFleet, R., Sywulak, A. E., & Sniscak, C. C. (2010). Child-centered play therapy. Guilford Press. Landreth, G.L. (2023). Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship (4th ed.). Routledge. Landreth, G.L., & Bratton, S.C. (2019). Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT): An Evidence-Based 10-Session Filial Therapy Model (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537948 Benedict, Helen. Themes in Play Therapy. Used with permission to Heartland Play Therapy Institute.

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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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In today's episode,

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I am answering a question from Crystal in Minnesota.

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I think I've had a few other Minnesotans

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write in because I remember talking about the

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really cool trip that we took to Minnesota a couple of years ago.

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So hello to you Minnesotans,

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Minnesotans,

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and I want to dive into this email.

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This is actually a really helpful question.

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So Crystal,

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thank you.

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I'm gonna read parts of it and we will tackle it together.

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I'm a clinical social worker currently working in a public school

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and have discovered a love for play therapy.

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I'm moving into a group practice and I found your podcast

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absolutely invaluable in honing my skills as I make the transition.

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I'm so glad,

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Crystal,

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that's why I do it.

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It has been wonderfully affirming to know that

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non-directive child-centered play therapy is a thing.

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Indeed it is.

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Your podcast is helping me learn how to articulate why

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I'm doing the way things the way that I do,

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especially since the schools are very directive environments.

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Yes,

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a battle worth waging,

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but for sure a struggle for school-based CCPTs.

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I'm wondering how to end sessions

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when ensuring the child is emotionally regulated and safe.

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Today I was working with a 5 year old with a known trauma history.

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He was doing some really intense processing around power and control and safety,

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and at the end it was clear that he was not regulated enough to safely return to class.

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I always give 5 and 2 minute warnings,

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and he often struggles to leave at the end.

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Today he was reluctant but willing to leave,

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but he ran from me in the hallway,

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pushed other children,

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and in situations in the past

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I've introduced a regulating activity like breathing,

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rhythmic movement,

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etc.

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but I'm not sure what to do now that I've committed to the non-directive way of life.

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Oh,

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you know,

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once you've come to the light side,

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you're never gonna go back,

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Crystal,

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so we'll,

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we'll figure it out together.

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So here's what

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is going on in a scenario like this,

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and even if you are not school-based,

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there are inevitably children that the time is up and you know that they are

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not regulated and you know that walking out to the lobby and greeting parents,

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caregivers,

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whomever is likely going to be difficult.

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So this is a very universal scenario.

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We've given 5 minute warning,

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we've given 2 minute warning,

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and the child wraps up and we know that there is still

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that

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dysregulation.

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There's still the charge,

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there's still all of that going on for the child,

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and that is tricky to navigate.

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So this is a really helpful question.

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I'm glad we're diving in.

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first and foremost,

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you need to have decompression

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scenarios worked into your process.

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the child chooses where to wash hands as they leave the playroom.

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So we're kind of engaging different

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aspects here.

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we're killing some time.

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This is why we have a 50 minute therapeutic hour

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because we have a 10 minute turnaround.

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I'm not sure what your schedule is like in the schools

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and for those of you that are not in private practice,

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I don't know what the governance is over how

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long you have and what your turnaround time is.

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If you have any control over that whatsoever and or

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maybe a more helpful thing to say is.

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You need to ensure that you have governance

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over some of these things in any environment

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in which you work.

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You need to have built in decompression

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turnaround.

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what can you do

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that will engage some senses

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that will take the child out of their deep feelings,

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that will give them some time and space,

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that will allow them to kind of recalibrate,

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potentially take care of some of the somatic stuff that's going on.

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if a child

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walks somewhere,

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washes hands,

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walks somewhere else,

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chooses a snack.

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Consumes,

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said snack.

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And then goes out to the lobby.

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Now all of a sudden there's some built in

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time for the child to kind of come down

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and now the body is engaging in other senses and other experiences we've

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changed environments we've focused on several

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different things we've made some choices.

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we're kind of getting out of therapy,

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internalized stuff and we're into more decision making and externalizing things.

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That is the goal of the turnaround.

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for you,

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I don't know if you maybe you're on.

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I know a lot of times school-based people have 30 minutes,

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so I don't know if maybe that means that you have a 25 minute

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therapeutic hour and then you use that 5 minute turnaround time to work this out.

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That's very important.

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there are times when you have to make a clinical judgment call.

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allow the child to remain with you a little bit longer,

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even if that means that you go over time a little bit.

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where we have the snack and the hand washing and then walking out to the lobby.

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Sometimes that isn't even enough.

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we have an extra 2 or 3 minutes.

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Before we even leave the playroom,

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time is up,

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but we kind of give that extra pause

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for kids to really kind of

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come back down from whatever it is they're working on.

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take an extra few minutes in the snack area before we go out to mom or dad or whomever

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because we need to make that clinical

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decision of does this child seem regulated enough

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to be able to handle going back into a different

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environment that's going to be a shock to the system.

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And whether they go back to a classroom in a school,

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whether they go back to caregiver in the lobby.

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The people that have been waiting,

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so teacher and and peers in the classroom,

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parent and siblings in the lobby,

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whoever has been waiting for the child,

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they are oblivious

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to the depth and the burden and the heaviness

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of what that child has just been processing.

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they go out and they're still carrying the weight of it.

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They still feel the burden of that,

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and whoever greets them.

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It's like,

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hey,

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did you have fun?

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Oh,

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you're back.

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let's jump into math.

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it's oblivion,

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not

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in any kind of critical way,

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but there's like a lack of awareness and there's oblivion and ignorance

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to

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what that kid has just been put through

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during that play session.

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And so sometimes it's also a psychoeducation aspect

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of helping parents,

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teachers,

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whomever

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understand

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what expectations are.

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Look,

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there's going to be times when your child comes out

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and they just,

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they're quiet,

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they're just regulated,

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they're a little bit disengaged,

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they're a little bit withdrawn.

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we have to be sensitive to that.

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We don't want to respond in certain ways.

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We don't want to ask if they had fun.

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We don't wanna ask what they did.

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We don't want them to have to dive right into something real fast.

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We kind of need to honor their process.

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We need to respect where they are

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and sometimes it's gonna take a little while

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for them to recalibrate.

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So often it's conversations with teachers,

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with school counselors,

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with parents,

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caregivers,

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whomever.

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Why?

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Because they don't know,

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you don't know what you don't know,

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but we can see it and so we have to advocate on behalf of the child.

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That allows us to help parents and other people

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have expectations of what is normal and appropriate

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and therefore how they can respond differently.

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So when you said that he was willing to leave but reluctant,

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that is a clinical awareness that we had,

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oh,

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he's probably not

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fully capable of,

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of heading back yet.

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So I'm wondering if in your scenario if you can

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walk the

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long way to the classroom.

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I wonder if you could have him go on an errand with you.

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I need to go drop this off at Miss So and So's office,

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so I wonder if you'd like to come with me,

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and that'll kill an extra 2 minutes before he's actually

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engaging in the hallway with peers and other children.

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You have the luxury and the ability

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to

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make decisions on behalf of the child.

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That's the whole premise of CCPT.

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It's child led.

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We recognize where the child is and we meet them where they are.

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We sit in the pocket

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of whatever it is that they're going through.

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And so when he goes into the hallway and pushes other kids,

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it's no wonder.

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And so maybe it's about accommodating that and coming up with an alternative

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that will still allow him to transition back to class,

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but in a more favorable way.

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this is about setting

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the scenario up for success.

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We want the child to be successful.

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the adults to be the stakeholders,

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right,

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the parents,

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the caregivers,

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the teachers,

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the principal,

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whomever.

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We want them to feel that it's successful.

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We want to feel that things are successful

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and sometimes it's setting expectations and providing different alternatives

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to accommodate the need and it's not an every week thing.

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There are going to be some weeks,

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actually probably most weeks,

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where he is fully capable of transitioning back with the regular process,

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but every once in a while

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we make that clinical call where we realize,

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you know what,

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I probably need to give this kid an extra couple of minutes.

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And that is justified clinically.

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That is a professional instinctive reaction

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that we are able to implement as a result of knowing kids

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and knowing where they are and knowing what's happening for them.

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I'm actually very happy to hear that you

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have abandoned your breathing and rhythmic movement process

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and I understand the why,

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I understand what the intention was behind that,

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but we have to recognize that

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children learn to self regulate,

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children learn to self control,

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children learn to recalibrate themselves.

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if they're learning it themselves instead of being told to do an activity.

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That serves them long term in every scenario

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rather than just here and now in this moment,

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I'm breathing to calm down.

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That does not give them the longitudinal outcome

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of I know how to get myself under control and I know how to regulate when I get upset.

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That's the goal and through the four

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universal outcomes through all of our interactions,

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obviously

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that is the facilitation of

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those outcomes.

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thank you so much.

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I hope that that's helpful and

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struggle across the board for us

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when we know a kid is in the thick of stuff and time is up.

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it's almost like we,

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we feel it with them,

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like,

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oh gosh,

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like they need to be in here longer.

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we make little tweaks along the way to do our best to accommodate that.

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All right y'all,

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I love you.

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Hope you have a great week.

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We'll talk again soon.

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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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