Overview
Via recorded webinar
Course Description:
Note: This course offers 3 CE and Association of Play Therapy 3 CE non-contact credits.
APT Primary Focus Area(s):
Play Therapy History: 3 CE
Total Play Therapy CE Hours: 3 CE
Come and learn the rich history of play therapy, including the history of childhood and how multiple societies and cultures have regarded children throughout history, how the field of play therapy was born and its evolution over the last 120 years.
In this delightful training experience, you’ll begin your journey through the history of play therapy by looking at more ancient times and the place children held. You’ll then walk through the late 19th century leading you along the winding and branching path showing how play therapy has developed.
This course will lead you all the way to today’s current and cutting edge trends in the field of play therapy.
Original recording date: January 11, 2021 Length: 3 hours
Learning Objectives:
Upon the completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the beginnings of how child therapy came about at the turn of the 20th century.
- Name 7 historical figures that influenced the field of play therapy from the psychoanalytical movement.
- List 4 historical and current names of well known humanistic and non-directive theorists in play therapy.
- Describe prescriptive play therapy.
- Name three approaches to play therapy and list 2 play therapy theoretical orientations that fall under each approach.
Sources and Resources (click to expand)
Courtney, J. A. (2020a). Healing child and family trauma through expressive and play therapies:art, nature, storytelling, body & mindfulness. W.W. Norton & Company.
Courtney, J. (Ed.). (2020b). Infant Play Therapy. Routledge,https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429453083
Gaskill, R. L., & Perry, B. D. (2017). The neurobiological power of play: Using theneurosequential model of therapeutics to guide play in the healing process. In C. A.Malchiodi & D. A. Crenshaw (Eds.), Creative arts and play therapy for attachmentproblems (pp. 178-196). Guilford Press
Hoffman L. (2017). Un homme manque: Freud's engagement with Alfred Adler's masculineprotest: Commentary on Balsam. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.2017;65(1):99-108. . http://doi.org/10.1177/0003065117690351
Lilly, J & Heiko, R. (2019, September). Jungian Analytical Play Therapy. Play Therapy, 14(3),40-42.
O’Connor, K. J., Schaefer, C. E., & Braverman, L. D. (2016). Handbook of play therapy. JohnWiley & Sons.
O’Connor, K. & Vega, C. (2019). Ecosystemic play therapy. Play Therapy, 14(3), 32-34.
Seymour, J. W. (2016). An introduction to the field of play therapy. In K. J. O'Connor, C. E.Schaefer, & L. D. Braverman, (Eds.), Handbook of play therapy (2nd Eds.) (pp. 3-15).John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Shelby, J., & Campos, K. G. (2011). Cognitive-behavioral play therapy for traumatizedchildren. Integrative Play Therapy, 105-128. http://doi.org/10.1002/9781118094792.ch7
Wonders, L. L. (2020). Play therapy for children with selective mutism. In H. G. Kaduson, D.Cangelosi, & C. E. Schaefer (Eds.), Prescriptive play therapy: Tailoring interventions forspecific childhood problems (pp. 92–104). The Guilford Press
CE Details:
3 CE recorded webinar contact hour(s)
Core Wellness, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0569 and for mental health counselors, #MHC-0167. Note: Note: This course provides 3 contact hour(s) self-study credits. Core Wellness, LLC is authorized by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners to sponsor social work continuing education programs and maintains full responsibility for all programs. Our credits are accepted via reciprocity by the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Board of Psychologists. Please verify with your board.
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Passing Score and Retest Policy:
Completing the video and achieving a posttest score of 80% or above is required to receive CE award. Open material permitted and one can retest unlimited times. Upon passing, we will email you a completion certificate within one business day. If failed, we will email you a retest in the same timeframe.
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The presenter and Core Wellness hereby declare that no conflict of interest, competing interest, or commercial support for the CE program are present. Presenter receives compensation for program delivery and sales as well as sales of his/her personal books and products.
