Description
Mental health and educational professionals who work with children can significantly benefit from training in play therapy. The most basic skills in play therapy; child-centric communication, reflective listening, and limit setting can improve rapport and subsequently relationships with children (professional AND personal). In this workshop participants will learn basic play therapy skills to engage children (from infancy through the elementary grades) in play therapy from a phenomenological and humanistic perspective. Developmental and cultural issues relevant to this population will be addressed and practical and dynamic interventions will be demonstrated.
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About the Presenter:
Dr. Mullen is a professor at SUNY Oswego in the Counseling & Psychological Services Department, where she has been a counselor educator for nearly 30 years. She is the Director of Integrative Counseling Services, an international speaker, author, credentialed play therapist and play therapy supervisor. Dr. Mullen provides training, consultation, and supervision to professional helpers all over the world. She has authored books on play therapy, counseling children and adolescents, grief counseling and parenting.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify three ways to use play therapy with children
- Replicate play therapy techniques suitable for children
- Use beginning play therapy skills to address the developmental and emotional needs of children
- Accurately identify feelings in children
- Explain the culture of childhood as it relates to Play Therapy
- Describe the play therapy approach with children
- Name three ways play therapists demonstrate fidelity to the CCPT approach
- Explain why asking questions and using praise are inconsistent with the CCPT model
- Demonstrate three ways that clinical responses are adapted from a culture of childhood perspective
Agenda:
DAY 1
9:00
Introduction of presenter, topic
9:15
Lecture (with examples)
What is Play Therapy?
History/Theory of Play Therapy approaches
11:30
Small Group Activities & Debrief
Conceptualizing the child's perspective
Challenging common views adults hold of children that get in the way of therapeutic connections
Working Lunch Break with Independent Activity
Assessing your connections to children in therapy: what has worked and how do you know?
12:45
Authentic learning activity & debrief
Setting the stage for viewing childhood through a cultural lens.
1:00
Lecture:
Culture of Childhood
How viewing childhood as a culture makes us more thoughtful practitioners.
Video review & small group discussion for authentic learning experiences
Assessing how viewing childhood as a culture impacts our way of understanding children's communication.
2:40
Lecture with activities, examples
Child-centered play therapy
Axline's 8 basic principles
The child-centered philosophy
3:00-4:00
Applied learning
Practicing the 8 basic principles and basic skills
Checkout activity
Assessment of participant learning through day 1
DAY 2
9:00
Q & A
9:30
Lecture & authentic learning activities:Limit setting
The how and why of setting limits
Structuring limit setting through a developmental lens
How to individualize limit setting
10:30
review of example session and debrief
Assess for fidelity to the child-centered model
Discussion of what worked and did not work in the session
Working Lunch Break with Independent activity
12:45
Practice of play therapy skills- applied learning
Reflective listening with Children
Tracking responses
1:00
Lecture & embedded small group activity:
Challenges to the CCPT approach
How your clinical knowledge informs and hinders your practice.
Play behavior that frequently challenges the play therapist and how to deal with that.
2:00
Applied learning activities
Application of limiting setting skills
Contextual caveats to limits
3:00-4:00
Lecture; Play therapy skills review
Assessing skill level of participants
Filling in gaps in foundation of child-centered play therapy
Q&A
Checkout activity
Accreditation - This Webinar Offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits. It grants Credits as listed below.
- NEFESH International, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0116.
- NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0046
- NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Mental Health Counselor #MHC-0082
- NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0048.
- CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
CE You! maintains responsibility for this program.
This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an introductory level, and is beneficial for an intermediate level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
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