Creative Family Play Therapy Techniques
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Creative Family Play Therapy Techniques
Liana Lowenstein
MSW, RSW, CPT-S
Celebrated Play Therapist - Canada
Certified TF-CBT Therapist
Liana Lowenstein is a Registered Social Worker, Certified Play Therapist-Supervisor, and Certified TF-CBT Therapist who has been working with children and their families in Toronto since 1988. Her 15 books are used by mental health professionals all over the world. She is a dynamic speaker who has provided trainings throughout North America and abroad, including China, South Africa, Israel, England, New Zealand, Australia, and Slovenia. She is winner of the Monica Herbert award for outstanding contribution to play therapy in Canada.
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Course Overview
Skills and Methods: 3 CE
Total Play Therapy CE Hours: 3 CE
Note: To maximize this training, participants are requested to have ready: Paper (3 pieces), Markers (assorted colors) and Optional craft supplies such as: Tape, scissors, colored felt, tin foil, cotton balls, straws, pipe cleaners, glitter, googly eyes.
Children are often excluded from family therapy because many practitioners are at a loss of how to effectively engage them. The use of creative activities in family therapy such as games, art, and storytelling, facilitates the participation of all family members. Play and expressive arts techniques, in particular, offer an advantage over traditional “talk therapy” because children are provided with a more developmentally appropriate means to communicate. Additionally, play and arts activities facilitate family relatedness.
Through this fun and interactive webinar, participants will learn a number of innovative play therapy techniques to engage, assess, and treat families. The advantages of using play therapy techniques with families will be outlined, and tips for overcoming challenges will be discussed. Videos of family play therapy sessions will illustrate techniques.
- List three benefits to using play, art, and other expressive techniques in family therapy
- Implement at least 2 strategies for engaging resistant family members
- Utilize at least 6 play therapy techniques in sessions with families.
Gil, E. (2015). Play in family therapy (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Press.
Green,E., Baggerly, J., Myrick, A.C. (2015). Counseling families: Play-based treatment. Rowan & Littlefield.
Horwath, J., Platt, D. (2020). The child’s world: The essential guide to assessing vulnerable children, young people, and their families. Journal of Social Work, 20(5), 694-696.
Lariviere, M.D., & Lyness, K. (2017). Transforming troubled children, teens, and their families: An internal family systems model for healing. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 43(2).
Lowenstein, L. (Ed.) (2010b). Creative family therapy techniques: Play, art, and expressive activities to engage children in family sessions. Toronto, ON: Champion Press.
Wehrman, J.D., & Field, J.E. (2013). Play-based activities in family counseling. American Journal of Family Therapy. 41(4). 341-352.
Willis, A.B., Haslam, D.R., Bermudez, M. (2016). Harnessing the power of play in emotionally focused family therapy with preschool children. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 42(4).
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Professional Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Play Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists (MFT)
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The training was very helpful and provided much more insight to the effects of prolonged grief. I feel that this will allow me to be able to provide more effective care for clients who may be suffering from prolonged grief without realizing it as well.
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Very engaging and informational
Recorded participant
Very valuable and inspiring!
Shari Steinert, School Psychologist MS.Ed; LMHC intern
Superb! Liana has a wealth of knowledge and she is so thoughtful during her presentations.
Nichole Vernon
Great interventions presented! Loved the interactive style of the webinar.
Recorded participant
I have read your books and used your resources for years and it was so good to hear from you first-hand, all your tricks of the trade! Appreciated the breakdown of assessment, treatment, how to engage reluctant individuals, examples of psychodrama, and story telling, art, termination techniques, and the examples via video - so good! thank you!
Read MoreJaime Englis, LPC
Highly skilled instructor
Recorded participant
The training was insightful, as someone who focuses on child centered, a different approach was extremely interesting to me
Read MoreRecorded participant
I particularly enjoyed the mock therapy sessions and learned a great deal from them.
Recorded participant
Great training, useful, and simple activities with great follow-ups for the therapist.
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Great content. Appreciated all the examples / client videos, interventions used
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She was great
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