The Journey of Play Therapy

With Children and Their Families:

From Takeoff to Landing

Who is this training event for?

This course is designed for graduate-level pre-licensed and licensed mental health professionals for continuing education purposes.

Description and Overview:

Learning Objectives

1. Preparing for Takeoff: Intake Process
   By the end of the training, participants will be able to conduct a comprehensive intake process, gathering essential information to ensure a smooth start to the therapeutic journey.
2. Know your Theories, Initial Assessment and Case Conceptualization
   Participants will be able to assess the child’s emotional and cognitive needs and develop a case conceptualization that lays the foundation for an effective therapeutic plan. 
3. Mapping the Route: Case Conceptualization through a lens of systemically informed Theoretical Orientations
   Participants will be able to apply play therapy theoretical frameworks that include a mindfulness-based and attachment-systems approach to guide the treatment plan, ensuring interventions are tailored to the child’s specific needs.
4. Creating the Flight Plan: Treatment Planning
   Participants will create individualized, developmentally appropriate treatment plans based on a solid understanding of play therapy techniques and theoretical foundations.
5. Ethical Documentation Practices: The Pilot’s Logbook
   Participants will document sessions accurately, ensuring clarity, confidentiality, and compliance with professional standards.
6. Building the In-Flight Experience: Therapeutic Alliance and Play Therapy Skills and Methods
   Participants will enumerate skills for strengthening the therapeutic alliance with child clients and families, ensuring trust and connection throughout the therapeutic journey, and will be able to name 10 play therapy interventions. 
7. Landing the Plane: Navigating Termination
   Participants will describe the termination phase of therapy, naming 5 elements of the closure of therapy, ensuring the family is prepared for life post-therapy, and will be able to name 5 play-based closure activities.
8. Integrating Mindfulness into the In-Flight Experience
   Participants will apply mindfulness-based techniques within play therapy to help children manage their emotions and stay present in the therapeutic experience.
9. Turbulence Control: Mindfulness for the Therapist
   Participants will name 5 mindfulness practices for therapist self care to manage emotional demands of providing play therapy for children and families, ensuring they remain grounded and present during the therapeutic process.
10. Self-Care for the Pilot: Care for the Therapist
    Participants will be able to demonstrate 5 mindfulness-based self-care techniques to prevent burnout and compassion fatigue, ensuring their well-being throughout the journey.
11. Mindful Treatment Planning: In-Flight Adjustments
    Participants will name 5  mindfulness techniques to include in treatment planning to ensure adaptability and emotional regulation for both the therapist and child client.
12. Assessing the Landing: Evaluating Progress and Ethical Termination
    Participants will assess therapeutic progress and determine the appropriate timing for termination, ensuring the family’s readiness for a successful transition after therapy.

This Journey of Play Therapy 2 day Training Event is Presented by:

 

Lynn Louise Wonders, MA, LPC, RPT-S, CPCS (presenter bio here)

and

Eleah Hyatt, MA, LMFT, RPT-S (presenter bio here)

Training Schedule:

Day 1: Preparing for Takeoff

• 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: The Play Therapy Intake and Assessment
• 10:30-10:45 – Break
• 10:45 – 12:00 – Systemic Considerations and Case Conceptualization in Play Therapy
• 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch
• 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Play Therapy Treatment Planning
• 3:30-3:45 – Break
• 3:45 – 4:30 Documentation and Ethical Considerations in Play Therapy

Day 2: Navigating and Landing

• 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Therapeutic Alliance and Play Therapy Skills and Methods 
• 10:30-10:45 – Break
• 10:45 – 12:00 – Care for the Therapist with Mindfulness-based Practices
• 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch
• 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Evaluating Progress in the Play Therapy Journey
• 3:30-3:45 – Break
• 3:45 – 4:30 Navigating the Closure of Play Therapy

12 Live Contact CEs Provided by Wonders Counseling Services, LLC and Mindfulness-based Therapy Training Institute®

APT Approved Provider 12-321

This training event meets the definition of an APT contact training.

Mindfulness-based Therapy Training Institute, LLC A subsidiary of Wonders Counseling Services, LLC. Mindfulness-based Therapy Training Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7421. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Mindfulness-based Therapy Training Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

FEE: $298 for both days of training

Due to the nature of this training event, we are not offering one-day-only fee structure but if you can only attend one day of the two day event we will provide you 6 CEs rather than 2.

Cancellation and Refund Policy:

A full refund will be available minus a $25 administrative fee until 90 days prior to the event date.

A 50% refund will be available minus a $25 administrative fee 60-89 days prior to the event date.

No refunds will be available for cancellation 59 days or less prior to the event date due to non-refundable financial commitments of event organizers.

Registrations may be transferred to another person without penalty only if the original registrant notifies lynn@wonderscollective.org in writing prior to the event date.

Event organizers reserve the right to cancel this conference in the event of unforeseen circumstances. If such occurs, Wonders Counseling Services, LLC and Mindfulness-based Therapy Training Institute® will seek to notify registrants at least 30 calendar days prior to the event and refund all registration, workshop, and continuing education fees. In all instances, the liability of  Wonders Counseling Services, LLC, and Mindfulness-based Therapy Training Institute is limited to refunding such fees.

Financial and Conflict Declaration: The presenters and hosts are compensated for the production and presentation of this live training series and the content created and presented will be recorded and later available for purchase from which the presenter will receive financial gains. The presenters and the hosts have no conflict of interest.

Privacy of Participants: The privacy of all participants assuredly will be maintained from registration through receipt of certificate of completion.

Policy for Complaints: If for any reason you are dissatisfied with the quality of this course or any other issue related to this training institute, please email us at lynn@wonderscollective.org and we will respond within 24 business hours and make every effort to address your concerns thoroughly and effectively.

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