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Foundations in Play Therapy: The Child-Centered Approach Day 4

Previously Recorded
Jodi Mullen PhD, LMHC, RPT-S
$59.99 Cost For Member: $29.99

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.

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:

  1. Identify three ways to use play therapy with children
  2. Replicate play therapy techniques suitable for children
  3. Use beginning play therapy skills to address the developmental and emotional needs of children
  4. Accurately identify feelings in children
  5. Explain the culture of childhood as it relates to Play Therapy
  6. Describe the play therapy approach with children
  7. Name three ways play therapists demonstrate fidelity to the CCPT approach
  8. Explain why asking questions and using praise are inconsistent with the CCPT model
  9. 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

This workshop offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

This presentation is open to:
  • 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
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: intermediate
  • 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

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

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