Black Students Matter

Play Therapy Techniques to Support Black Students Experiencing Racial Trauma

April D. Duncan

SSWAA Workshop Series

• Discusses racial trauma behind school discipline, while offering interventions to immediately implement in individual and group play sessions in schools

• Provides suggestions to engage teachers in play-based activities to address vicarious trauma and self-care, along with ways teachers can embed play into their classrooms to increase self-regulation and enhance student-teacher relationships

• Teaches how to engage parents and other important adults in the support system of Black children using play therapy to enhance parent-child relationships and address parenting skills that have stem from intergenerational trauma