Groups for Adolescents Using Play Therapy and Drama in MD 

Description:

Adolescents are often viewed as the most resistant therapy clients. Creative approaches to therapy, such as play and drama, tend to engage adolescent clients more than traditional talk therapy. This workshop will explore how play and drama therapy activities such as storytelling, role play, and puppetry are appropriate ways to engage adolescent clients. It will also explore common themes that are addressed in work with adolescents such as coping skills, anger management, assertiveness, and healthy relationships and how to use creative approaches to address these themes.

Objectives:

 

• Identify issues that are unique to the developmental stage of adolescence
• Address the tendency of teens being resistant to therapy
• Identify topics that are relevant to adolescents in therapy
• Discuss the history and theory of drama therapy
• Discuss why drama therapy and other expressive modalities are better able to engage adolescents than traditional talk therapy
• Demonstrate drama therapy activities that therapists can use in play therapy with adolescents

 

Presenter:  Krista Verrastro

Krista Verrastro, MA, RDT is a Registered Drama Therapist who currently works in private practice and at an agency that helps people with various mental health needs in the Baltimore area. Although Krista has worked with various populations, she specializes in abuse-related trauma and other boundary issues. Krista discovered drama therapy while in high school and has been extremely passionate about it, and other creative arts therapies, since then. 

 

Cost: 

• EARLY BIRD (until July 29, 2017): $125.00
• LATE REGISTRATION (July 30 and after): $150.00

ADA Accommodations: Please let us know at least three weeks in advance of ADA needs.

 

Cancellation Policy: Written cancellation must be received in our office at least ten working days prior to the training. A $25.00 processing fee will be deducted from your refund. Otherwise, a voucher will be given. If you do not notify us a minimum of ten business days prior to the training of your intent to cancel, you will not receive a refund or credit.  

 

Continuing Education Hours:  

Social Workers/Psychologists/MFCCs/Play Therapists CE Hours: 6

NBCC: 6 Clock Hours/0.6 CEUs

CBPS is approved by the District of Columbia and the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners to sponsor Category I continuing education programs; CBPS is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. CBPS solely is responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Provider #5763; approved by the National Association of School Psychologists, approval #1067; approved by the Board of Behavioral Sciences in California to offer CEUs for MFCCs and LCSWs. Approval #PCE 1466. APT Approved Provider 97-034. CBPS is recognized by SED’s State Board for Social Work, provider #0122 and Mental Health Counselors, provider #MHC-0009 in New York. CBPS maintains responsibility for this training.

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