Identification: Tu-5
Credits: None available.
Participants will be exposed to the literature on the neurobiology behind play which will provide a framework for advocating for, and supporting their play therapy practice with parents and other professionals.
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Identification: Tu-6
Credits: None available.
This workshop examines the neurobiological components involved in the Sandplay, and how they work to change psychological functioning in the play therapy process.
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Identification: W-1
Credits: None available.
The workshop reviews brain structure, organization, integration, and mediation of function. These concepts are essential to play therapists’ clinical interviews identifying cognitive, emotional, and physiological symptomatology. This process is crucial to the formation of sequentially appropriate, trauma informed treatment plans.
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Identification: W-7
Credits: None available.
This interactive workshop allows play therapists to expand their knowledge about multicultural play therapy. The workshop provides supportive structure for self-reflection on multicultural play therapy. Shared experience and research will support the participants' multicultural practice with children and families.
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Identification: W-8
Credits: None available.
This workshop provides an overview of the Kids in Court program at the Chadwick Center, and gives participants play therapy intervention ideas for how to educate and support children who will be testifying in court.
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Identification: Th-2
Credits: None available.
Learn how to use play therapy to increase felt safety within a family, work with attachment anxiety within a dyad, craft coherent narratives of hard things, and help parents and children become a team to fight trauma based anxiety together.
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This training is NOT eligible for supervisor training hours.
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Identification: Th-4
Credits: None available.
Working with teens and tweens can be a challenge! We will share our Top 12 Creative Play Therapy Interventions for working with some of the most common challenges for troubled teens and teens. Come prepared to play!
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Identification: Th-7
Credits: None available.
Learn to navigate the challenges of school settings while using play therapy to build social skills and coping strategies in children. Participants will practice techniques and work within metaphors, before leaving energized and ready to engage in new, creative ways.
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Identification: Th-8
Credits: None available.
Using play therapy in family assessments welcomes children, as well as their parents, into the therapeutic relationship. Play therapy interventions will be introduced to look specifically at the family dynamics of hierarchy, power and control, boundaries and alliances.
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Identification: Th-10
Credits: None available.
This presentation covers the fundamentals of sensory processing disorder, as well as other sensory-related disorders. Specific play therapy interventions are introduced to address the unique needs of children that experience sensory concerns. Neurobiologically informed treatment conceptualization and planning is reviewed.
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