Description
WORK TOWARD BECOMING A REGISTERED PLAY THERAPIST
Just Playing? Sandtray used in Play Therapy with Children, Teens and Families,
DATE, TIME AND LOCATION
February 1-2, 2025 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM 1 hour lunch, two 15 minute breaks.
3725 Coolidge Avenue, Oakland 94602-in person.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is designed for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, LEPs, pre-licensed associates and graduate mental health students.
PREREQUISITES
None but familiarity with sand tray is helpful.
Suggested Reading
- Homeyer, L. & Sweeney, D. (2017) Sandtray: A Practical Manual. NYC, NY:Routledge
SCHEDULE
- Day 1: focuses on sand tray with children, teens and families. We will review categories of miniatures as well as collecting and displaying them. Developmental information and behaviors specific to children’s use of sand tray will be covered. Theoretical approaches, both directive and non-directive, will be included with examples of both. Slides and videos will be used to as a way to practice questions and observations and to help understand themes. Family play therapy activities using sand tray will be described and practiced.
- Day 2: Include a review of the impact of trauma on the neuropsychological development of children and youth. The impact of different types of trauma from single incident traumas to complex traumas and factors mediating the effects will be considered.
The focus moves to the power of sand tray to offer healing. Case examples and experiential components will be included. Both directive and non-directive methods will be explored, including processing trauma trays. Issues specific to trauma, such as aggression and dissociation, will be reviewed and play therapy techniques offered to work with these issues.
TRAINER
Jeannette Harroun has a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she provides psychotherapy and individual consultation and supervision. Her approach to therapy is described as positive, warm and playful. She works with children, teens and parents in addressing a variety of concerns including self-regulation, impulsivity, parenting and co-parenting issues, depression, anxiety, trauma and many more.
She holds certifications for the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement (NIRE) in Child Centered Play (practitioner, supervisor, trainer) and Filial Therapy (practitioner and supervisor). In addition, she has a certificate from Mindful Schools in K-12 Mindfulness Curriculum Training and in Neuroscience and Somatic Skill Building. She is a Positive Discipline Parent Educator and an American Psychological Association Adults and Children Together (ACT) Program facilitator (both parent educator and provider trainer).
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- List 4 categories of miniatures a play therapist should include in a sand tray collection geared to children, teens and families.
- Explain one reason that play therapists should not interpret the metaphors which often appear in the children’s sand tray stories.
- List 4 questions or observations that play therapists can use in witnessing and/or processing sand trays with children
- Learn 2 directive activities to use with children during a play therapy session.
- Name 1 way that the play therapy sand tray of a pre-schooler would differ from the tray of an older school age child.
- Learn at least 1 directive sand tray-play therapy activity to use with families.
- Explain the differences between 3 types of traumatic experience-single incident trauma, PTSD and developmental trauma and give an example of how each one might effect a play therapy client.
- Explain how sandt ray stories created during play therapy sessions can aid a child, teen or adult resolve traumatic memories
- Learn 2 sandt ray/play therapy interventions for treating trauma.
Continuing Education
Growth Through Play Therapy is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists,1032322, to sponsor continuing education for LMFT’S, LCSW’S, LPCC’S AND LEP’S. They maintain responsibility for this program/course and its content. There is an additional charge of $25 for CEs.
Growth through Play Therapy is an approved provider for the Association for Play Therapy APT 09-241. There is no extra charge for APT educational credits.
Partial credit cannot be offered. This workshop and presenter have no conflict of interest in presenting this workshop, nor is there any commercial support.
ACCOMONDATIONS
To request accommodations for special needs, please email the Program Administrator at kepernet@gmail.com
GRIEVANCES
To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email kepernet@gmail.com or call 510-923-0520
CERTIFICATES
Course Completion certificates will be awarded at the end of the course in exchange for a completed evaluation form. Course meets the qualifications for 12 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Growth through Play Therapy is an approved provider for The Association of Play Therapy, 09-241
CANCELLATION POLICY
Full refund if canceled 45 days in advance minus $75 administrative fee; after that date there will be no refund unless space is filled from the waiting list. In the case of insufficient enrollment, the training will be postponed or cancelled and there will be a full refund offered.
QUESTIONS
Contact Jeannette at 925-890-7478 or jeannette@bayarea-counseling.com
