Where
Barstow Acres Children's Center590 Main Street
Annex Building (behind main building)
Prince Frederick, MD 20678
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2018 MD Play Therapy Boot Camp
MUST register by July 1, 2018!
"Get your boots on the ground!"
Become proficient in play therapy with up to 72 hours of training all approved by the Association for Play Therapy!
About:
This summer, CBPS is offering 12 days of training opportunities geared towards helping participants to become proficient in Play Therapy. Participants can choose to sign up for the entire 2018 Maryland Play Therapy Boot Camp or take individual training.
When:
July 16 – 28, 2018.
Cost:
Total cost: $1,700 – Sign up for the entire Boot Camp before July 1 and receive $100 off!
You may register for individual training opportunities, a la carte, but the $100 discount only applies to those who register for the entire camp.
Payment plans are available!
Cost Includes:
- All trainning
- 72 CE/CEU/Clock Hours
- Individual CE certificates for each attended course
- Camp art supplies
- Boot Camp Gear Pack (backpack with 2018 Play Therapy Boot Camp T-Shirt and play therapy tools & supplies)
- Field trip & outdoor picnic
Workshop Information:
July 16 & 17: Child-Centered Play Therapy – Beginner
$298.00 Early Bird
$325.00 July 9 and later
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 and hands-on practice. 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.
Presenter: Sonia Hinds, APRN, PMH-BC, RPT-S.
Continuing Education:
Continuing Education Hours / Clock Hours for: Counselors / Social Workers / School Psychologists / Marriage & Family Therapists / Psychologists / Art Therapists / School Counselors / Play Therapists: 12
NBCC Clock Hours: 12/1.2 CEUs.
July 18 & 19: Self-Regulation for Children with Aggressive Behaviors in Play Therapy & Equine Experience Field Trip – Beginner
$298.00 Early Bird
$325.00 July 11 and later
Description:
A directive play therapy approach is used as a means to engage children with toys and activities since children 3-10 years or age typically do not have the cognitive ability to process inner conflict. Play is the child’s language and toys their words. With directive play therapy, therapists will gain a greater knowledge of how to work on goals related to anger management and self-control using hands-on play therapy techniques. Participants will be exposed to new games, songs, activities, and worksheets they can incorporate in sessions to facilitate insight and promote growth and change related to anger goals. Discussions will incorporate how to engage kids with resistance, denial, and opposition in addressing anger. Additionally, the training will demonstrate how to share the techniques in family sessions and coach parents with play therapy and concrete strategies to help get a more effective response from their child. Participants will have the opportunity to learn, practice, and apply their new knowledge and play therapy skills during the training. Participants will visit a horse farm to observe equine activities in order to appreciate how Equine Therapy combined with play therapy can be useful to build self-confidence, self-efficacy, communication, trust, social skills, impulse control and learn boundaries.
Presenter: Batsheva Hartstein, LCSW-C, RPT
Continuing Education:
Continuing Education Hours / Clock Hours for: Counselors / Social Workers / School Psychologists / Marriage & Family Therapists / Psychologists / Art Therapists / School Counselors / Play Therapists: 12
NBCC Clock Hours: 12/1.2 CEUs.
July 20: Taking Play Therapy Outdoors: Archery, Tape Art, Yoga, Labyrinth Walk & More! – Intermediate
$150.00 Early Bird
$175.00 July 13 and later
Description:
If play is a child’s natural language where toys are the words, outdoors play seems to be the natural place for play to occur. With changes in our society due to technology and other factors, children are increasingly becoming resistant to outdoor play.
During our PLAY THERAPY BOOT CAMP series, participants will learn about the IPA, an international advocacy group which promotes play opportunities for children as a basis for outdoor play. At this exciting training, we have designed directive outdoor techniques to incorporate into your play therapy practice to help children heal in their natural play environment. Through the lens of play therapy, a number of interventions such as Equine Assisted Therapeutic Activities, Yoga, Archery, Labyrinth Walk, Tape Art, and outdoor sandtray will be incorporated in this innovative experience as well as movement and sensory oriented techniques. The purpose is to help children develop social skills, empathy, self-regulation, increase self-awareness through nature, and to have good old-fashioned fun and breath fresh air!
Presenter: Sonia Hinds, APRN, PMH-BC, RPT-S
Continuing Education:
Continuing Education Hours / Clock Hours for: Counselors / Social Workers / School Psychologists / Marriage & Family Therapists / Psychologists / Art Therapists / School Counselors / Play Therapists: 6
NBCC Clock Hours: 6/0.6 CEUs.
July 21 & 22: Gestalt Play Therapy for Children & Adolescents: What I Learned from the Master – Beginner
$298.00 Early Bird
$325.00 July 14 and later
Description:
Gestalt: the sum is greater than its parts as long as relationship between the parts remain. A process oriented approach to therapy, based on Humanism, Reichian Therapy, Phenomenology, Holism and Existentialism. Gestalt Play Therapy created by Violet Oaklander, PhD, RPT-S (retired), its main focus is to help the client become aware of own process and achieve change through contact, awareness, choices and self- responsibility. Ultimately, once aware, clients decide to maintain or discontinue behaviors. This training will discuss in depth the Seven Principles of Gestalt Play Therapy with children and adolescents as created and taught by Violet Oaklander, PhD (retired). Using case studies, the application of the principles will be demonstrated using a rich array of art, clay work, music, therapeutic stories, role-play and exercises.
Presenter: Sonia Hinds, APRN, PMH-BC, RPT-S
Continuing Education:
Continuing Education Hours / Clock Hours for: Counselors / Social Workers / School Psychologists / Marriage & Family Therapists / Psychologists / Art Therapists / School Counselors / Play Therapists: 12
NBCC Clock Hours: 12/1.2 CEUs.
July 24 & 25: Play Therapy for Sexually Traumatized Children – Intermediate
$298.00 Early Bird
$325.00 July 17 and later
Description:
Using the best elements of both directive and non-directive play therapy approaches with traumatized children allows for healing and repair of losses associated with sexual trauma like innocence, trust, and appropriate boundaries. In this workshop, participants will learn about sexual development in children, the psychological markers of sexual trauma, and the special issues these children present in play therapy. Included will be ways to consult with non-offending parents, deal with powerful impact of countertransference, and setting limits.
Presenter: Jodi Mullen, PhD., LMHC, RPT-S
Continuing Education:
Continuing Education Hours / Clock Hours for: Counselors / Social Workers / School Psychologists / Marriage & Family Therapists / Psychologists / Art Therapists / School Counselors / Play Therapists: 12
NBCC Clock Hours: 12/1.2 CEUs.
July 26: Traumatic Grief in Play Therapy – Beginner
$150.00 Early Bird
$175.00 July 19 and later
Description:
All children experience grief. Many of the losses of children experience go unrecognized even by people who care and love them. Traumatic grief, the complicated grief that is also connected to trauma, is a more serious mental health issue in children. In this workshop participants will get foundational knowledge, practical skills and have authentic learning experiences that translate into helping children with traumatic grief heal using play therapy.
Presenter: Jodi Mullen, PhD., LMHC, RPT-S
Continuing Education:
Continuing Education Hours / Clock Hours for: Counselors / Social Workers / School Psychologists / Marriage & Family Therapists / Psychologists / Art Therapists / School Counselors / Play Therapists: 6
NBCC Clock Hours: 6/0.6 CEUs.
July 27 & 28: FUN Integrative Approaches to Trauma-informed Art Interventions in Play Therapy – Intermediate
$298.00 Early Bird
$325.00 July 20 and later
Description:
In this highly experiential workshop, participants will learn neurodevelopmental approaches to trauma treatment integrated into the clinical art-making process. Day 1 will focus on a brief overview of these therapeutic models ( Perry, Siegel, van der Kolk) ; ethical guidelines to using creative interventions in play therapy, developmental stages of art through case presentations, art experientials and didactic means will be included. Art-making directives will follow the stages of art development. The presenter, a trauma-focused licensed board-certified art psychotherapist, trained in IFS and EMDR and will include several art directives informed by these models such as bilateral drawing and a “parts” drawing directive. Participants will gain understanding of how these playful and creative interventions promote organization of chaotic trauma experiences by offering structured meaning, containment, attunement, affect regulation, and reparative experiences utilizing bottom-up approaches in play therapy. Day 2 will be applying new knowledge in a day of art-making using a variety of materials including paper bag book-making, joint art-making, create a clay dollhouse family and even cardboard dollhouses made by participants and the children enrolled in camp!
Presenter: Peggy Kolodny, ATR-BC, LCPAT
Continuing Education:
Continuing Education Hours / Clock Hours for: Counselors / Social Workers / School Psychologists / Marriage & Family Therapists / Psychologists / Art Therapists / School Counselors / Play Therapists: 12
NBCC Clock Hours: 12/1.2 CEUs.
Please see our Training Calendar to register, or to get more information on these training opportunities.