The Power of Play

Written By Pam Hamilton
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Course Description

Play is powerful – both for children and adults. Play shapes the brain, invigorates relationships, stirs the imagination and is a crucial part of development. Play has captured the attention of scientists from many fields, creating a vast knowledge base about the importance and power of play. Understanding the power of play can enhance your client’s resiliency and improve relationships.  This training will invite you to learn, to discover and to incorporate play into your daily interactions – both professional and personal. 

Objectives: Participants will be able to...

  1. State the influence of play on development and relationships

  2. List different patterns of play

  3. Articulate their history of play and examine its influence

  4. Rekindle their freedom to play!

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Pam Hamilton

Pam Hamilton, LCSW LSCSW

Pam is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, in private practice as a therapist and consultant.

In the therapy room or speaking to audiences Pam brings energy, insight and hope to her sessions. She is a firm believer in people’s innate capacity for growth and healing. Her education, experience and her own healing informs her therapy practice and presentations. She is a bearer of hope and living proof of resilience.

Specialties include treatment for anxiety, relationship challenges, grief and loss as well as support for caregivers. She is trained in many modalities including EMDR, Prolonged Grief Disorder, DBT, CBT and incorporates the practical insights of Polyvagal theory into her sessions. Her current therapy and consulting practice is via tele-health for the states of Kansas, Missouri and Indiana.

Pam is an energetic and engaging speaker who continues to train professionals in areas of trauma, resilience, and behavioral health topics. She has spoken at conferences throughout the United States, created curriculums adopted by the state of Missouri child welfare system, served on the Missouri Attorney Generals Human Trafficking Task Force, and continues to provide secondary trauma consults for Kansas and Missouri’s child welfare workers.

She loves the outdoors, cherishes having raised four children, is an avid swimmer and pickle ball player and most importantly hopes she will make a difference in someone’s life through her work.

https://www.HamiltonCandC.com
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