Play Therapy Supervision Essentials: Elements for Success
Identification: F-6
Credits: None available.
It is critical supervisors are prepared to provide play therapy supervision grounded in a supervision theory framework. In this session, RPT-Ss will learn the essential elements to provide ethical and theoretically grounded play therapy supervision.
Level: Intermediate
Primary Area: Special Topics
Content Focus: Supervision,
Theoretical Basis: Developmental | Integrative
- Describe a minimum of 4 essential components in play therapy supervision.
- Create an outline of a personal play therapy supervision disclosure statement.
- Apply the essential components of play therapy supervision to the supervision process.
Supervisor, Supervisor: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Identification: F-10
Credits: None available.
This workshop grounds the play therapy supervisor in an attachment framework and guides our responses to supervisees at every stage of the developmental process (with a special focus on boundary development) in order to help our emerging play therapists bloom!
Level: Advanced
Primary Area: Seminal or Historically Significant Theories | Skills and Methods
Content Focus: Supervision, Attachment
Theoretical Basis: Attachment | Integrative | Prescriptive
- Articulate the two primary roles supervisors play when using the Circle of Security paradigm as the foundation for supervision.
- Describe one play therapy activity that can help a supervisee reflect on their current developmental level and set goals for future growth.
- Describe one anxiety that they carry as a play therapy supervisor and one tool for being present with their supervises when they notice the anxiety.
Unifying Jungian Analytical Theory and Neuroscience to Build Healing Pathways with Play Therapy
Identification: S-1
Credits: None available.
Play therapy developed before modern neuroscience. Consequently, models relied on historical experience and theory for legitimacy. Neuroscientific principles offer support for many play therapy approaches. This workshop examines neuroscientific principles and concepts in relationship to Jungian Analytical Theory and constructs.
Level: Advanced
Primary Area: Special Topics
Content Focus: Theory / Process, Trauma
Theoretical Basis: Jungian
- Compare Jungian Analytical theoretical concepts to the corresponding neuroscience concepts
- Discuss theory and empirical evidence demonstrating the strong connection between Jungian Analytical theory and neuroscience
- List neuroscientific evidence for a child’s mystical and phenomenological experiences
- Describe applicability of neurobiological principles to Jungian Analytical Play Therapy constructs
- Create specific Jungian play therapy applications using neurobiological principals
- Critique Jungian Play Therapy applications from a neuroscientific view of child
Parents as Partners in TraumaPlay: Attachment, Paradigm Shifts, and Story Keeping
Identification: S-2
Credits: None available.
This workshop offers a multitude of immediately usable evidence informed TraumaPlay interventions for families as well as lots of newly created tools that help parents (and teachers) simplify neurobiological concepts, shift discipline strategies and become better Story Keepers.
Level: Intermediate
Primary Area: Special Topics
Content Focus: Attachment, Trauma
Theoretical Basis: Attachment | Integrative | Prescriptive
- Explain the role of Parents as Partners within the larger TraumaPlay model.
- List five play therapy interventions that enhance in-session experiences of delight between parent and child.
- Describe the arousal states represented by each animal in the Polyvagal Zoo as they relate to trauma induced stress responses.
- Explain the use of three play therapy tools for helping parents shift their discipline strategies.
- Describe one play therapy intervention that helps parents reflect on their own attachment history.
- List five play therapy interventions for harnessing the role of parents as Story Keepers in creating coherent family trauma narratives.
When the Family Narrative Changes: Maintaining Connection with LGBTQIA Child with Play Therapy
Identification: S-11
Credits: None available.
A child may be a member or have curiosity about the LGBTQIA community and this discovery may halt, or even destroy that narrative parents have unknowingly placed on the child. This workshop will focus on maintaining the connection between the LGBTQIA child and family with play therapy.
Level: Intermediate
Primary Area: Special Topics
Content Focus: Family, Diversity
Theoretical Basis: Adlerian
- Discuss rewriting family narratives within the play therapy setting in relation to parents who are having difficulty with maintaining connection with their child.
- Demonstrate methods of connection between the parent and child within the family play therapy setting.
- Analyze the importance of focusing on guilt, loss, grief and fear which are common feelings of parents of LGBTQIA children.
Working with Aggression and Intensity in the Playroom
Identification: Su-2
Credits: None available.
Aggression is a part of play therapy and knowing how to make it therapeutic is often a challenge. Using neuroscience, come learn how to help your child clients work through their aggression and intense play leading to healing and transformation.
Level: Intermediate
Primary Area: Special Topics
Content Focus: Theory / Process, Trauma
Theoretical Basis: Experiential | Humanistic / Relationship
- Identify strategies for maintaining regulation in the midst of intense play, aggression and death in the play room.
- Identify at least 2 strategies for working with aggression in the playroom without experiencing nervous system shut down leading to vicarious trauma.
- Demonstrate at least 2 strategies for setting boundaries without shaming or shutting down a child’s play.
Therapeutic Powers of Play in Neurobiologically-Informed, Play Therapy Complex Trauma Treatment
Identification: Su-3
Credits: None available.
Considering the nature and impact of complex trauma, treatment should occur in stages, be grounded in the therapeutic powers of play, and be applied through the relationally and developmentally sensitive nature of neurobiologically-informed play therapy.
Level: Advanced
Primary Area: Special Topics
Content Focus: Trauma, Theory / Process
Theoretical Basis: Attachment
- Examine the impact of complex trauma and associated neurobiological changes.
- Explain the components of neurobiologically-Âinformed, relationally-Âfocused play therapy.
- Identify the best-practice guidelines for treating complex trauma.
- Match/Link treatment guidelines to each of the therapeutic powers of play.
- Discuss/demonstrate appropriate play therapy interventions that are grounded in seminal play therapy theories/therapeutic powers of play.
- Develop treatment plans that include neurobiologically-informed, relationally-Âfocused play therapy.