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Institute for Professional Development at Jewish Community Services of BaltimoreContact
Quinn SmelserMaryland/DC Association For Play Therapy
5127399426
mddca4pt@gmail.com
MD/DC APT Spring In Person Workshop:
It’s All in the Directive: Implementing LEGOŽ SERIOUS PLAYŽ Throughout the Play Therapy Treatment Process
Please join the MD/DC Association for Play Therapy for our Spring Workshop on Friday, May 19, 2023 from 9:00am-3:00pm EST- Our first time in person since the pandemic!
Workshop fees with CE Cost included.
There will be 5 Contact Hours upon receiving post-test and course evaluation.
This program is pending approval from NASW. The Maryland/DC Association for Play Therapy is an APT-Approved Provider 17-522 and maintains responsibility for the program.
There will be a 45-minute lunch break and 15-minute break during the training.
Workshop fees with CE Cost and Box Lunch included:
$125 (Current MD/DC APT members will receive a special 5% discount code via email)
NO FOOD CAN BE BROUGHT INTO THE CENTER UNLESS IT IS KOSHER. PLEASE RESPECT OUR HOSTS.
Cancellation Policy:
Due to the limited amount of registrants allowed, once registered and paid, there will be no refunds granted.
Presented by: Althea Simpson, LCSW, LICSW, LCSW-C
Ms. Simpson is the owner of a trauma responsive psychotherapy practice in Northern Virginia. She has over 20 years’ mental health experience in the areas of research and direct clinical practice. She holds dual social work degrees in organizational leadership and clinical practice. As a registered play therapist-supervisor™, Ms. Simpson is an innovative training that brings effective creativity to mental health practice. As a certified LEGOŽ SERIOUS PLAYŽ facilitator and expert trainer in the LEGOŽ SERIOUS PLAYŽ methodology I regularly use this innovative methodology as a powerful tool that can be integrated with many psychotherapy frameworks to enhance the emotional and psychological well-being of individuals, families and groups receiving mental health services.
Collaboration is highly recognized as an important relationship variable in play therapy treatment that is most often lined to client treatment outcomes. Play therapy treatment will include many desirable as well as undesirable features, which is of critical importance to mental health professionals using play as a method of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. Play therapy offers a therapeutic mode for diagnosis, assessment, and treatment interventions utilizing creative modalities to engage clients in the treatment process. Mental health professionals using play therapy must recognize the importance of one primary approach to engagement, which is therapeutic rapport building. Rapport building involves early personalization and the mental health professional being flexibly responsive to clients’ presenting nondiagnostic characteristics that are known to bear on treatment outcomes. Although traditional methods of play therapy are empirically effective for many psychological conditions, adjustments in intake, toy selection, and termination can greatly enhance the therapeutic process. The use of empirically derived play therapy strategies is of great importance for mental health professionals in assessing, cultivating, and responding to clients’ presenting and early treatment needs and beliefs.
A client’s story can be told using different therapeutic mediums. The LEGOŽ SERIOUS PLAYŽ (LSP) methodology is a powerful tool that combines visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles that can be used as a creative and powerful play therapy approach. LEGOŽ SERIOUS PLAYŽ uses metaphors and storytelling that is fluid and flexible in communicating, as demonstrated by the effectiveness of using narrative therapy in play therapy to reframe experiences. Utilizing LEGOŽ bricks in play therapy treatment make social interactions interesting to the client, using the naturalistic approach of play. The LEGOŽ SERIOUS PLAYŽ methodology draws on extensive research from multiple fields including psychology and learning. It is based on the concept of “hand knowledge” and according to the research, our hands are connected to 70-80% of our brain cells. Therefore, incorporating LSP into play therapy treatment can help clients enhance communication and problem-solving skills by building LEGOŽ models to externalize thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Participants will explore the integration of the LEGOŽ SERIOUS PLAYŽ method with directive play therapy to treat clients across the lifespan with a variety of mental health challenges. Utilizing this integrative approach to play therapy can meet the therapeutic needs of many clients throughout the therapeutic process from rapport building to termination. LEGOŽ-based strategies can be used throughout play therapy treatment to help individuals, families and groups focus on their treatment goals. This is a “hands on bricks” interactive play therapy workshop from start to finish that may include experiential learning.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Explain the LEGOŽ SERIOUS PLAYŽ methodology and its integration with play therapy treatment.
- Identify and discuss at least two psychotherapeutic frameworks that can guide the use of LEGOŽ SERIOUS PLAYŽ in play therapy treatment.
- Describe the powerful use of metaphors in a psychotherapeutic context as an indirect play therapy intervention.
- Explain the role of narrative storytelling and how to integrate it with LEGOŽ SERIOUS PLAYŽ in play therapy treatment.
- Describe the therapeutic benefits of using the LEGOŽ SERIOUS PLAYŽ method with clients throughout the play therapy treatment process.
- Demonstrate and build at least 6 directive LEGOŽ models that can be used to assess and treat various emotional and behavioral issues that present in play therapy treatment.