Workshop Title: Play Therapy to Support Child-Welfare Involved Youth & Families
Facilitator: Jasmine Berger, MSW, LCSW, RPT™
Training Date: July 13th, 2024
Training Time: 9:00 am-4:30 pm CST
Location: Equal Shares Parenting, 9715 Olive Blvd, Olivette MO 63121
CEs: 6 APT Contact CEs
Workshop Description:
Children with attachment disruptions due to foster care or adoption have relationship wounds that require healing. Play therapy can serve as an effective tool to enhance attachments and activate healing in children of all ages. This workshop will cover the core needs of adoption and ways you can meet them through thoughtful play-based assessment, case conceptualization and treatment. Attendees will analyze the therapeutic powers of play that can help adoptees and foster youth to heal. The workshop will cover essential play therapy seminal theories to employ when working with adopted or foster children including Child Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) and Theraplay. Healing attachment wounds requires incorporating caregivers into treatment as well, therefore training will give you family play therapy interventions as well as ways to help parents incorporate play therapy techniques at home to foster stronger connections.
Learning Objectives:
Analyze the role of the core needs of adoption in play therapy treatment.
Discuss play-based assessments for adoptive and foster youth.
Apply Theraplay interventions to use in family play therapy sessions.
Describe the application of the Therapeutic Powers of Play in play therapy sessions with adopted and foster youth.
Discuss the use of Child-Centered Play Therapy with adoptive and foster youth.
Assess the use of filial therapy in family play therapy sessions.
Agenda:
- 9:00 am-10:30 am Lecture & experiential learning
- 10:30 am-10:45 am Break
- 10:45 am-12:00 pm Lecture & experiential learning
- 12:00 pm-1:00 pm Lunch break
- 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Lecture & experiential learning
- 2:30 pm-2:45 pm Break
- 2:45 pm-4:15 pm Lecture & experiential learning
- 4:15 pm-4:30 pm Q &A and wrap-up