Description
- 30 Techniques for children, adolescents and adults
- Recognize and apply metaphors
- Mindfulness in play therapy
- Effective techniques for ADHD, Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Abuse
Play Therapy is not just a useful therapeutic method for children, it is also a preferred way of expression for adolescents and adults. Watch this recording and explore how you can use play therapy techniques with any client, regardless of age or symptom. Learn proven techniques appropriate to your client’s stage in life, behavioral or emotional issues, and disorders. You will leave with a toolbox filled with Play Therapy techniques that you can use immediately with clients of all ages, including:
- Over 30 cutting-edge techniques for clients of all ages
- What techniques to apply to Anxiety, ADHD, anger, trauma and abuse.
- Metaphors and understanding of the meaning of your client’s play
- What a session should look like
Join Dr. Cathy Bissett as she shows you how effective Play Therapy is for development, communication, social-emotional skills and improving behavioral health.
CPD
CPD
- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 6.25 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
Objectives
- Recognize the metaphors that a client presents to you and modify them into working, functional strategies.
- Select the best techniques, depending upon the presenting issue.
- Apply 30 techniques appropriate to the client’s stage of development.
- Define, formulate and expand your own working schema of play therapy principles.
- Apply the concept of scaffolding in play therapy regardless of age.
- Describe the difference between your client’s cognitive understanding and emotionally driven change.
Outline
Play Therapy
- Assessment and Diagnoses
- Identify Themes
- Age Appropriate Play
- What techniques are Best for What disorders
- Play In and Out of the Play Room
- Recognizing the Schema
- What a Session Looks Like
Integrate Play into Practice
- Playing the Brain
- Use of Sensory Information
- Mind/Body Connection
- Brain Re-mapping
- The Well-Equipped Play Room
- The Therapist as Collaborator
Play Therapy for Children
- Children’s Metaphors
- Identification
- Scaffolding
- Reframing
- Reassessment
10 Techniques for Children
- Art
- Sand Tray
- Parallel Play
- Reciprocal Play (I-spy)
- Animals
- Modeling
- Scaffolding
- Rewards
- Alliance development
- Make believe
Play Therapy for Adolescents
- Adolescent Metaphors
- Identification
- Personal myths
- Peer and external influences
- Scaffolding
- Reframing
- Reversion and Reassessment
10 Techniques for Adolescents
- Sharing “language”
- Dress codes
- Synchronicity and mirroring neurons: the continuous feedback loop; animals
- Silence: where no one has gone before.
- Respect
- Slowing the process
- Write it down!
- Expect and demand
- Know their culture
- Never let them see you sweat; risk.
Play Therapy for Adults
- Adult Metaphors
- Identification
- Exploration
- When, Where, What, How and Why Support
- Change and Reframe
- Evolution
10 Techniques for Adults
- Sand tray
- Symbols
- Art
- Animals
- Reciprocity
- Identification and re-establishment of Values Systems
- Amateur Hour
- Saving Face
- Refuge and Truth Telling
- Search and Destroy: Love IS enough
Target Audience
Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapists/Physical Therapist Assistants, Play Therapists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals
