Connecting the Dots: Utilizing Assessments in Play Therapy

Time: 1:00 pm to 4:15 pm

CEs: 3 CEs in Play Therapy

Format Delivery: Face-to-face

Content Description:

This play therapy training examines the role of assessment in ethically grounded, developmentally responsive practice. Participants will explore how clinical interviews, observational methods, standardized testing and art-based assessments inform play therapy case conceptualization and treatment planning. Emphasis will be placed on integrating standardized caregiver-report measures, including the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Parenting Stress Index (PSI), into the therapeutic process while maintaining the play therapy relationship and progression. The workshop will address appropriate administration, interpretation within the scope of practice, cultural considerations, and documentation consistent with best practice. Participants will evaluate the strengths and limitations of projective and standard assessments and learn how to integrate findings to support case conceptualizations, parent consultations, create measurable treatment goals and treatment plans to increase clinical decision-making. This training strengthens clinicians’ ability to use assessments as a tool that enhances therapeutic attunement, supports the Therapeutic Powers of Play, and promotes ethical, effective play therapy practice.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the workshop, the participant will be able to

1. Analyze the role of clinical assessment in play therapy case conceptualization.

2. Differentiate between clinical interviews, observational methods, and standardized psychological assessments and identify the appropriate use of each in play therapy.

3. Evaluate the administration and clinical integration of the Child Behavior Checklist, Parenting Stress Index and art-based assessments in play therapy.

4. Critique the strengths and limitations of clinical and standardized assessments used in play therapy.

Schedule:

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Therapeutic powers of play therapy

Play theories

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Break

2:45 pm – 4:15 pm Importance of Play

Cost: $90

REGISTER:

Facility:

Institute for Counseling Development

1600 Medical Center – Suite B-1

El Paso, Texas 79912

Cancellation and Refund Policy: This workshop is nonrefundable.

Presenter:

Leah Fowlkes Miller, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S™ APT Approved Provider 14-368

Leah Fowlkes Miller, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S™ is the owner and founder of the Counseling Center of Expressive Arts established in 2001 and the Institute for Counselor Development in El Paso, Texas founded in 2015. She has worked with families, couples, adolescents, and children for over 25 years. She completed her master’s in counseling at Webster University and did a post-graduate study at the University of Oklahoma in art therapy. Leah received her PhD from the University of North Texas in Counseling and Higher Education with a specialty in play therapy.