Child-Centered Play Therapy - 2 day in MD 

Description:

During this session, participants will be introduced to the entire play therapy process from start to finish, including how to make skilled responses, identifying therapeutic themes and issues, tracking progress, setting limits, responding to questions and making decisions about termination of sessions.  Additionally, participants will learn how to select toys for the playroom and work with parents effectively. This workshop will provide a framework for conducting play therapy in order to begin conducting this work immediately. Includes didactic information and videotape presentation, as well as role-play.  If you are serious about play therapy, this workshop is a MUST!  It is CBPS’ thought that every therapist working with children in a mental health capacity should have this training as a foundation regardless of the play therapy modality being used.

Objectives:

• Describe the stages of play therapy and the issues/themes presented
• Demonstrate how to utilize empathic responses, tracking responses, and how to respond to questions, requests, commands by the child and set limits in play therapy
• Identify methods to constructively engage and maintain a working relationship with parents whose children are in play therapy
• Identify four healing messages needed by children in play therapy
• Describe the three steps in therapeutic limit setting
• Describe three characteristics of reflective responding in play therapy

Presenter:  Sonia Hinds, APRN, PMH-BC, RPT-S

Founder and Executive Director of Chesapeake Beach Professional Seminars. Founder and Director of Barstow Acres Children’s Center, a non-profit organization that provides children’s mental health services.  Trained in Gestalt play therapy with Violet Oaklander (retired). Authored chapter, Play Therapy with African-American Children in text, Cultural Issues in Play Therapy  by Eliana Gil, PhD, RPT-S and Athena Drewes, PsyD, RPT-S.

Cost:

• EARLY BIRD (until January 18, 2018): $298.00
• LATE REGISTRATION (January 19 and after): $325.00

 

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:  

Social Workers/Psychologists/MFCCs/Play Therapists CE Hours: 12

NBCC: 12 Clock Hours/1.2 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. 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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