Screen Play: Play Therapy Moves On-Line, May 15, 2021—ONLINE

$190.00

Saturday May 15, 2021-10:00 AM to 5:30 PM – OVER ZOOM

1 hour lunch break and two 15 minute breaks will not be counted toward the 6 CEs awarded

Play therapy is a beneficial and fun approach that supports the ability of children (and often teens) to work through an array of emotional and behavioral challenges.  Play therapy normally takes place in a physical therapeutic space filled with an array of toys, sand and expressive arts materials that support the child or teen’s ability to identify and process feelings as they learn to identify and cope with comfortable feelings like anxiety and anger, problem-solve or socialize more comfortably.

Although teleplay therapy has been offered as a modality since 2014, the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted more therapists from familiar playrooms to on-line sessions.  For many, the shift in format created a variety of new challenges to engaging clients and ways of using play to help them work through the issues that brought them to therapy.  This webinar outlines the requirements for successful and ethical on-line play therapy including identifying benefits and challenges, use of non-directive vs. directive play, inclusion of parents, considerations for culturally sensitive care, effective interventions and the importance of therapist self-awareness and care.  The course outlines and demonstrates a variety of interventions to engage clients and address the concerns that brought them into therapy.  The webinar will be taught using didactic instruction, videos, and on-line play with other participants.

10 Seats Available.

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Description

6 Seats Available

LOCATION
Online via Zoom

TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is designed for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, LEPs, pre-licensed associates and graduate mental health students

PREREQUISITES
None

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 is currently a collaborative supervisor for the Wright Institute and has been an adjunct faculty member with the University of Phoenix and a workshop provider with John F. Kennedy University.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe five benefits to providing play therapy on-line.
  • Describe five challenges to providing play therapy on-line.
  • Describe the difference between directed and non-directed play and understand the basic principles of each as related to provision of on-line play.
  • Identify factors that indicate parents may be appropriately included in on-line play therapy.
  • Identify five on-line play therapy interventions to help children express feelings and learn coping strategies
  • Learn ways to set up and use on-line play interventions.

CONTINUING EDUCATION
6 CEs-$25 additional charge. Sierra Institute for Contemporary Gestalt Therapy (Provider #76949) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFT’S, LCSW’S, LPCC’S AND LEP’S. SICGT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Growth through Play Therapy is an approved provider for the Association for Play Therapy-APT 09-241. No extra charge for APT approval. These workshops and presenter have no conflict of interest in presenting this workshop, nor is there any commercial support.  Partial credit cannot be offered.

CANCELLATION POLICY
Full refund if canceled 15 days in advance minus a $50 administrative fee. After that date there will be no refund unless space is filled from the waiting list.

QUESTIONS
Contact  Jeannette at 925-890-7478 or jeannette@bayarea-counseling.com

Enhance your play therapy skills!

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Karen Pernet LCSW, RPT-S

Oakland, CA 94602
510-923-0520
karen@growththroughplaytherapy.com

I would be glad to hear from you and to share information about my services: psychotherapy, general supervision for pre-licensed therapist, specialized supervision for therapists working becoming  Registered Play Therapists, consultations for experienced therapists and trainings in play therapy and sandtray therapy.