Continuing Education Courses.

Play ‘N Learn Training, LLC provides APT approved continuing education courses. The courses can be taken individually as stand alone courses. The course can also be taken sequentially. Courses start with the very foundations of play therapy and continue to build to intermediate and advanced skill levels.

Objectives

  • Review the historical aspects of play therapy
  • Describe the current theoretical approaches of play therapy
  • List Requirements for becoming a Registered Play Therapist
  • Identify the therapeutic powers of play
  • Describe basic tracking skills in play therapy
  • Demonstrate basic tracking skills in Play Therapy

Course 1. What is Play Therapy?

A beginning level introduction to play therapy for mental health professionals and graduate students in a mental health program.

The presenters will review the requirements for becoming a registered play therapist™, give a historical overview of play therapy development and theories, and introduce the principles for working with children in play therapy. The therapeutic powers of play will be reviewed as participants work in small groups to describe and demonstrate the basic skill of tracking play in play therapy.

6 APT Approved Contact Hours

Objectives

  • Review Historical Framework of Child Centered Play Therapy
  • Identify and categorize the selection dof toys for play therapy
  • Describe the basic skill of tracking in play therapy
  • Demonstrate the basic skill of tracking in play therapy
  • Describe the basic skill of reflecting feelings in play therapy
  • Demonstrate the basic skill of reflecting feelings in play therapy
  • Describe the basic skill of reflecting content in play therapy
  • Demonstrate the basic skill of reflecting content in play therapy

Course 2. Basic Skills in play Therapy: Tracking, Reflecting Feelings, and reflecting Content

A beginning level introduction to play therapy for mental health professionals and graduate students in a mental health program.

The presenters will include a review of the historical development of Child Centered Play Therapy. Participants will identify and categorize the toys used within the play therapy setting along with the play therapy room setup. The basic skills of tracking, reflecting feelings and reflecting content in play therapy will be discussed, applied and practiced.

6 APT Approved Contact Hours