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