Description

This experiential workshop will invite play therapists and other clinicians to explore their own creativity and imagination as they look at the benefits of integrating play therapy and other expressive therapies (art, sand, drama) into clinical practice.

This workshop will provide ample room for participants to participate in play and other expressive activities, with a focus on successful integration and implementation.

There is substantive evidence that play, art, and other expressive methods allow clients to sidestep well-established defensive mechanisms, activate the body-mind connection, and enliven and reshape relational interactions and connections.

Clinicians attending this workshop will gain not only a new repertoire of play therapy and other expressive interventions, but also feel prepared to tap into their own creativity to design novel invitations for their clients.

During each day of this workshop, play therapists and other participants will have a chance to engage in an expressive play therapy activity and discuss the clinical application of those activities.

Finally, this workshop is designed to allow each clinician to work from his or her theoretical model of play therapy and integrate accordingly. An emphasis will be placed on providing expressive therapies in an economic way, without expensive toys, and learning about adapting materials that might already be available in any clinical setting.

Come to this workshop with your therapeutic curiosity and willingness to explore play therapy and other expressive approaches, and a value of the importance of laughter and play in a therapeutic relationship.

During this workshop, the 20 central change agents of play therapy will be highlighted, and basic principles of play and other expressive therapies will also be defined.

What You Will Learn In This Workshop

• Select and utilize an expressive therapy technique for assessment purposes with children.
• Select and utilize an expressive therapy technique to promote treatment goals.
• List two potential outcomes of utilizing expressive therapies at the assessment stage.
• List two potential outcomes of utilizing expressive therapies to promote treatment goals.
• Describe two ways to promote treatment goals by using expressive therapies.
• Describe two ways to invite clients to co-create treatment plans.
• List the four dimensions of Theraplay that bring focus to family dynamics.
• Identify two clinical interventions that utilize an expressive therapy component.
• Define two basic principles of drama therapy.
• Define two activities designed to help clients feel seen and heard.
• List two potential outcomes of inviting people to participate in dramatic play.
• List two possible ways of inviting client participation with movement and drama.
• Describe the rationale for inviting full families to engage in play therapy.
• List two play therapy techniques that can help clinicians identify positive and negative family dynamics.
• List two expressive therapy activities that can be employed during the assessment phase.
• List two expressive therapy activities that clinicians can design based on/and in response to their work with families.
• List two criteria for selecting appropriate, integrated expressive therapies with a broad clinical population.
• Name two theoretical foundations which become foundational to your clinical approach.
• Name two ways to make clinical decisions about formats, modalities, and integrative approaches.
• List two approaches that you will learn more about, or integrate, into your clinical practice at the end of this training.

US CEUs pending. Approved for 15 APT CE hours. Click here for details about CE credits..

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