Upcoming Trainings
Building Better Bonds: Engaging Caregivers in Play Therapy
Gen-Z and Therapy: Competent Care with Tweens and Teens in 2023
Play Therapy 102: Applying Play Therapy Theories
Building Better Bonds: Engaging Caregivers in Play Therapy
This workshop will cover the importance of caregivers as emotion coaches, techniques to help build the child/parent relationship and tools for the caregivers and child when dealing with emotional regulation in the home. Family Play Therapy activities will be demonstrated.
Gen-Z and Therapy: Competent Care with Tweens and Teens in 2023
This workshop is designed to equip play therapists with the knowledge and strategies they need to effectively work with today’s adolescents, as well as train parents on how to communicate and connect with their adolescent. This workshop will review the impact of challenges faced by today’s teens including the pandemic, social media/technology, racial inequality, and political tension.
We will also explore generational views held be many members of G2n-Z including social diversity concerns such as LGBTQ+, and how these might be impacting the therapeutic relationship with the therapists of different generations.
This workshop will also provide practical skills for play therapists on how to use the play therapy principles of praise, reflect, and describe tailored specifically to adolescents. Lastly, this workshop will discuss how play therapists can use these skills to coach parents on connecting effectively with their teenagers.
Play Therapy 102: Applying Play Therapy Theories
This workshop will discuss play therapy theories and how to apply them in play therapy session. Play Therapy activities and interventions will be discussed and demonstrated.