Learning Objectives

• Apply Joseph Campbell’s ‘The Hero’s Journey’ to the experiences of traumatized children; help reframe, process, and apply their experiences to a healing context.

• Apply Socratic questioning throughout the course of treatment to engage and empower children.

• Integrate the stories of famous children Carl Jung and Stephen King into your approach to treatment with traumatized children.

• Identify Freud’s concept of repetition compulsion in the behaviors/symptoms of children who have experienced trauma.

• Develop a treatment plan template for a 50 minute therapeutic hour working with traumatized children ages 4-7 and 8-11.

Treating Traumatized Children

This workshop opens with a gripping case presentation of “Luke,” and a format for treating trauma in children. Riveting examples of emotional trauma include those of famous individuals such as Carl Gustav Jung and Stephen King. DSM V criteria are briefly reviewed, and multiple treatment tools, both concrete and ephemeral, are introduced.

Throughout the workshop, Carol Juul skillfully uses case studies to illuminate key issues, as she applies a plethora of therapeutic tools and principles to demonstrate how to meet specific therapeutic goals.

Carol weaves the theories and philosophies of Sigmund Freud, Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung into a tapestry that provides a strong foundation for working with trauma in children. Tools include pranayama breathing, meditation, guided imagery, and Dr. Christine Padesky’s cognitive restructuring for PTSD and healing trauma in children. Special attention is given to evidence-based methods for managing creative, hyperactive and/or over-anxious, and over stimulated children.

From intake interview to closure, attendees are provided with information on how to both reinforce and anchor objectives, as well as how to integrate techniques, philosophies, and formats to provide a sound treatment plan for traumatized children.

Case presentations:

• “Maggie” – Treating sexual trauma: dealing with escalation and de-escalation.
• “Luke” – Cognitive Restructuring for PTSD
• “Unchained Memories” – Lenore Terr, MD –Concrete and Ephemeral treatment tools
• “Jessica McLure” – A child’s trauma garners national attention.
• “The Well” – Cultivating Cultural competence in a multi-cultural civilization
• Developing a 50 minute treatment hour plan

Ms. Juul clarifies multiple methods of managing creative, hyperactive, and/or over-anxious children. Pranayama breathing, meditation, and guided imagery methods when working with traumatized children are presented using actual Case examples demonstrating Ms. Juul’s positive outcomes.

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BROCHURE ( to see page two click arrows on top or bottom of the brochure)

approved by ASWB

“Carol Juul, LCSW, provider #1418 is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Carol Juul, LCSW maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: 08/10/2016 – 08/10/2019. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers participating in this course will receive 7 Clinical continuing education clock hours.”