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Webinar Description
A 12 Hour Workshop
February 3, 4, 10, & 11, 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
$199.99
This Certificate eligible workshop will require the securing of the training manual which can be obtained at the links listed below. If you want the physical copy in time for the workshop start, the deadline for the purchasing deadline is January 15, 2025. The digital copy can be secured at anytime.
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Physical Copy $29.99 +S&H: https://www.integrative-counseling.us/product-page/new-edition-play-therapy-basic-training International participants should email alexislittlesics@gmail.com to process their order |
Digital Copy $16.99: https://www.integrative-counseling.us/product-page/play-therapy-basic-training-manual |
Completion of this workshop is a prerequisite for application to NIRE’s Certification Program in Child-Centered Play Therapy For information, please click HERE.
If you have any difficulty registering, please contact us here.
Mental health and educational professionals who work with children can significantly benefit from training in play therapy. The most basic skills in play therapy; child-centric communication, reflective listening, and limit setting can improve rapport and subsequently relationships with children (professional AND personal).
In this workshop participants will learn basic play therapy skills to engage children (from infancy through the elementary grades) in play therapy from a phenomenological and humanistic perspective. Developmental and cultural issues relevant to this population will be addressed and practical and dynamic interventions will be demonstrated.
Agenda:
Introduction of presenter, topic
Lecture (with examples)
What is Play Therapy?
History/Theory of Play Therapy approaches
Small Group Activities & Debrief
Conceptualizing the child's perspective
Challenging common views adults hold of children that get in the way of therapeutic connections
Working Lunch Break with Independent Activity
Assessing your connections to children in therapy: what has worked and how do you know?
Authentic learning activity & debrief
Setting the stage for viewing childhood through a cultural lens.
Lecture:
Culture of Childhood
How viewing childhood as a culture makes us more thoughtful practitioners.
Video review & small group discussion for authentic learning experiences
Assessing how viewing childhood as a culture impacts our way of understanding children's communication.
Lecture with activities, examples
Child-centered play therapy
Axline's 8 basic principles
The child-centered philosophy
Applied learning
Practicing the 8 basic principles and basic skills
Checkout activity
Assessment of participant learning through day 1
Q & A
Lecture & authentic learning activities:Limit setting
The how and why of setting limits
Structuring limit setting through a developmental lens
How to individualize limit setting
review of example session and debrief
Assess for fidelity to the child-centered model
Discussion of what worked and did not work in the session
Working Lunch Break with Independent activity
Practice of play therapy skills- applied learning
Reflective listening with Children
Tracking responses
Lecture & embedded small group activity:
Challenges to the CCPT approach
How your clinical knowledge informs and hinders your practice.
Play behavior that frequently challenges the play therapist and how to deal with that.
Applied learning activities
Application of limiting setting skills
Contextual caveats to limits
Lecture; Play therapy skills review
Assessing skill level of participants
Filling in gaps in foundation of child-centered play therapy
Q&A
Checkout activity
About The Presenter:
Dr. Mullen is a professor at SUNY Oswego in the Counseling & Psychological Services Department, where she has been a counselor educator for nearly 30 years. She is the Director of Integrative Counseling Services, an international speaker, author, credentialed play therapist and play therapy supervisor. Dr. Mullen provides training, consultation, and supervision to professional helpers all over the world.
She has authored books on play therapy, counseling children and adolescents, grief counseling and parenting, including: ,
Webinars included in this package:
Foundations in Play Therapy: The Child-Centered Approach Day 1
Foundations in Play Therapy: The Child-Centered Approach Day 2
Foundations in Play Therapy: The Child-Centered Approach Day 3
Foundations in Play Therapy: The Child-Centered Approach Day 4
Certificates Provider - These webinars offer 12 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits
- NEFESH International, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0116.
- CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
CE You! maintains responsibility for this program. - NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0046
- NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Mental Health Counselor #MHC-0082
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0129.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0325.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0774.
This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an introductory level ,and is beneficial for a beginner level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Official information
- Refunds: Registrants who are unable to attend a Thrapy Express seminar or live webinars may ask for, and will receive, a credit or refund (your choice). Refund requests will be processed within 3 business days. When an attendee knows in advance that they are unable to attend we ask that they inform Thrapy Express ahead of time by emailing support@thrapyexpress.com or by calling or texting (631) 202-1010 this allows us to free up the spot in the training in the event that a training is at or near capacity.
- Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
- Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.
- The grievance policy for trainings provided by the NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here
- Satisfactory Completion: Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire webinar, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here
- Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
- There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.