Description
Playing for Keeps: Creative Approaches to Play Therapy
July 20, 2024, 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM – 6 CEUs
Limit to 6 participants
COST: $210.00/Early Bird $195
DESCRIPTION:
In-Person Training: COVID Precautions
WORK TOWARD BECOMING A REGISTERED PLAY THERAPIST
It is said that you can’t enter any world for which you don’t have the language* and that is particularly true in working with children. Play is a child’s language, and both play and expressive arts techniques provide an effective means for therapeutic work with children. Focus is on understanding the use of play/art in addressing somatic experience and brain/body interactions to successfully support children and families in addressing concerns such as depression, anxiety, self-regulation, and trauma. The workshop includes didactic instruction but is also a very hands-on experience. Participants should be prepared to learn and have fun!
*Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher.
TIME AND DATE: Saturday, June 20, 2024 from 9:30AM- 5:00PM. There will be a one-hour lunch break and 2 15 minute breaks.
LOCATION: 3725 Coolidge Avenue, Oakland 94602
TARGET AUDIENCE: This course is designed for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, LEPs and pre-licensed associates
PREREQUISITES: None but come prepared to learn and play.
TRAINER: Jeannette Harroun, LMFT, RPT is a Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Play Therapist. She has a private practice in Lafayette, CA 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, self-esteem, attachment, tantrums and impulsivity, parenting/co-parenting/blended family issues, anxiety, depression, school and motivational issues, trauma, and divorce. She offers supervision and consultation for therapists seeking the Registered Play Therapist designation. She regularly teaches CEU courses with Growth Through Play Therapy Training Associates as well as other organizations and has been an adjunct faculty member with the University of Phoenix and a workshop provider with John F. Kennedy University.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Describe the four levels of experience in the Expressive Arts Continuum and four functions of Expressive Arts Therapy
- Describe two activities that can be used to start a session and one that addresses the whole brain
- Identify 3 or more benefits to play/expressive arts therapy
- Identify the difference between bottom up and top down approaches to therapy
- Explain what is mean by a brain-responsive approach to therapy
- Identify 3 interventions that support self-regulation and self-awareness
- Identify two family play therapy interventions and their use
CONTINUING EDUCATION:
This course meets the qualifications for 4 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCC, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. 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. 6 CEs-$25 additional charge. Purchase separately.
Growth through Play Therapy is an approved provider for the Association for Play Therapy – APT 09-241. There is no extra charge for APT CEs. Partial credit cannot be offered.
CANCELLATION POLICY For trainings 8 hours or less: Full refund minus a $50 administrative fee if canceled at least 30 days in advance. After that date there will be no refund unless space is filled from the waiting list. In that case, the payment will be refunded minus the administrative fee. If the training is cancelled by Growth through Play Therapy due to insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen event, a full refund will be given unless the participant confirms by e-mail that they are registering for another class.
Unfortunately we are unable to reimburse travel expenses, such as airfares or hotels in the event that the training is cancelled.
QUESTIONS About the training: Contact Jeannette at 925-890-7478 or jeannette@bayarea-counseling.com
About the facility or payment: Contact Karen Pernet at 510-923-0520 or kepernet@gmail.com
