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Drama-Based Social Pragmatics Group
Drama will be back in April 2018 as a Vacation Camp!
 
“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”  - Victor Borge
 
Primary Goals
  • Friendship Development
  • Increase capacity to negotiate the social world successfully across increasingly broad range of complex situations with increasing independence
 
This drama-based social pragmatics group will use semi structured drama games to support children’s development of and spontaneous use of “social-emotional tools of engagement” while in the flow of real interactions with peers and adults. The games focus on shared joy and humor to foster emotionally meaningful connections with others, decrease anxiety and increase motivation for sustained interactions with others.
 
Social Emotional Tools of Engagement include
  • Timing of interaction
  • Complex multiple uses of eye contact
  • Affect (expressive and receptive)
  • Tone of voice (expressive and receptive)
  • Body posture (expressive and receptive)
  • Maintaining / shifting topic
  • Coordinating all of the above with peers
 
This group will be led by Jen Charnley, LCSW, a mental health therapist who focuses on play and relationship based therapies to support the social emotional well-being of children and families.  She has worked with children with autism and related neuro-developmental disabilities for 15+ years, specializing in DIR/Floortime, supported pretend play groups, and drama-based social groups.  More recently, she has expanded to work with children who also have challenges with anxiety, phobias, self-regulation, and those who have experienced trauma, incorporating play therapy and sandplay therapy into sessions.  She has her master’s degree in clinical social work from Boston College and her BA in psychology from Macalester College.  She also holds a certificate in DIR/Floortime and completed a year-long training series in Interpersonal Neurobiology. 
 
For further information call 978-712-0003 or email admin@pptfth.com
Therapy from the Heart
100 Cummings Center, Suite 350G
Beverly, MA   01915
(978) 712-0003
Peer Projects
800 Cummings Center, Suite 160U
Beverly, MA 01915
(978) 712-0003