Webinar Title: Play Therapy with Young Children
Facilitator: Tranae Harris-Bingham, PhD, LAPC
Training Date: July 13th, 2024
Training Time: 9:00 am-4:30 pm CST/10:00 am-5:30 pm EST
Location: Zoom
CEs: 6 APT live webinar CEs
*This webinar meets apt's definition of "live webinar"*
Webinar Description:
Play therapists who work in early childhood require a special set of skills to support young clients in non-directive and directive play therapy sessions. This webinar explores the unique needs of young children including play-based interventions to support healthy brain and social-emotional development. Attendees will also explore Filial therapy and Child-Parent Relationship Therapy to enhance the parent-child relationship in family play therapy sessions. Attendees will also engage in experiential play-based activities to support common mental health disorders in young children that can be used in individual, family and group play therapy sessions.
Learning Objectives:
Identify play-based assessments and interventions to identify mental distress in young children.
Discuss play-based interventions to jumpstart cognitive and social-emotional development in young children.
Describe play-based interventions to support sensory integration in young children.
Explain play-based interventions to address common mental health disorders in young children.
Analyze the use of bibliotherapy in play therapy sessions with young children.
List play-based strategies to engage caregivers in consultations.
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