• Demonstrate basic play therapy skills with non-clinical child volunteers, with immediate supervisory feedback.
• Observe live non-clinical play therapy sessions with immediate supervisory feedback.
• Give feedback about observations of others and self.
• Identify areas of personal growth for next micro-practicum
• Identify play behaviors.
• Review understanding of Being With in play therapy
• Begin to conceptualize client using play behaviors as reference.
• Explore typical non-facilitative responses in play therapy.
• Understand importance of including parents in treatment.
• Explore types parent interviews.
• Identify characteristics of good parenting.
• Explain play therapy it parents.
• Demonstrate basic play therapy skills with non-clinical child volunteers, with immediate supervisory feedback.
• Observe live non-clinical play therapy sessions with immediate supervisory feedback.
• Give feedback about observations self and others.
• Identify areas of growth about play therapy skills.
• Review code of ethics for represented associations of participants as it pertains to children.
• Identify ethical issues involved in providing play therapy for children and their caregivers.
• Develop understanding of confidentiality in play therapy.
• Determine therapeutic termination.
Session 1
By attending this session, participants will be able to:
• Identify, compare, and contrast theories and the theorist that shaped the history of the profession of play therapy.
• Demonstrate understanding of child development
• Recognize the developmental stages of play
• Explore 19 propositions in child-centered play therapy
Learning Objectives: By attending this session, participants will be able to:
• Explore basic child-centered play therapy skills
• Practice basic child-centered play therapy skills, including tracking, reflection of content and emotion, facilitating decision making, and returning responsibility.
• Develop understanding of self as a play therapist.
• Explore personal fears and concerns when conducting parent consultations.
Session Three Title: Basic Child-Centered Play Therapy Skills cont.
January 31, 2020
Duration: Four hours
Learning Objectives: By attending this session, participants will be able to:
• Review and demonstrate basic play therapy skills including tracking, reflection of content and emotion, facilitating decision-making, and returning responsibility.
• Identify developmentally appropriate toys and materials used in play therapy for both a play therapy room and a traveling play therapy kit.
• Review importance of play in the therapeutic process.
• Explore research literature about play therapy.
Learning Objectives: By attending this session, participants will be able to:
• Identify, compare, and contrast theories used within the profession of play therapy
• Recognize theories within different formats of play therapy (individual, group, family, school, etc.)
• Use 19 Proposition to identify how maladjustment occurs in children
• Explore theory (Jaak Panseek) about circuits of emotion and the importance of connection with children when utilizing child-centered play-therapy.
Learning Objectives: By attending this session, participants will be able to:
• Identify the purpose and rationale of therapeutic limit setting in child-centered play therapy.
• Recognize the importance of the relationship in therapeutic limit setting in child-centered play therapy.
• Demonstrate the use of ACT model in therapeutic limit setting during play therapy session.
• Identify personal concerns using limit setting in play therapy.
