Foundations in Play Therapy:
The Child-Centered Approach Day 1

Monday, February 03, 2025, 10:00 AM EST - 1:00 PM EST

$59.99 Member Price: $29.99 Jodi Mullen PhD, LMHC, RPT-S

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.

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.

This workshop Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

Learning Objectives:

Identify three ways to use play therapy with children

Replicate play therapy techniques suitable for children

Use beginning play therapy skills to address the developmental and emotional needs of children

Accurately identify feelings in children

Explain the culture of childhood as it relates to Play Therapy

Describe the play therapy approach with children

Name three ways play therapists demonstrate fidelity to the CCPT approach

Explain why asking questions and using praise are inconsistent with the CCPT model

Demonstrate three ways that clinical responses are adapted from a culture of childhood perspective

Learning Objectives:

Identify three ways to use play therapy with children

Replicate play therapy techniques suitable for children

Use beginning play therapy skills to address the developmental and emotional needs of children

Accurately identify feelings in children

Explain the culture of childhood as it relates to Play Therapy

Describe the play therapy approach with children

Name three ways play therapists demonstrate fidelity to the CCPT approach

Explain why asking questions and using praise are inconsistent with the CCPT model

Demonstrate three ways that clinical responses are adapted from a culture of childhood perspective

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

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