Course Overview
Via live interactive webinar
Course Description:
APT Primary Focus Areas:
Skills and Methods - 3 CE
Special Topics - 3 CE
Total Play Therapy CE Hours: 6 CE
This webinar presents an innovative approach to assessing and treating children who have experienced sexual abuse. Participants will explore the impact of sexual abuse on children and learn evidence-based, trauma-focused play therapy interventions. Directive play therapy techniques will be integrated throughout the workshop to demonstrate how structured, play-based interventions can help children safely express and process traumatic experiences and build coping skills.
The workshop will also highlight the critical role of caregivers in the healing process and provide practical strategies for engaging and supporting parents so they can effectively assist their children’s recovery. In addition, an innovative model for working with suspected but unsubstantiated cases of child sexual abuse will be presented, offering guidance on how clinicians can respond thoughtfully and ethically when concerns arise without clear evidence.
Through case studies, videos of client sessions, activity demonstrations, and experiential exercises, participants will gain practical skills to provide trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate care for children and their families.
Learning Objectives:
Upon the completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define child sexual abuse and its impact on children and adolescents.
- Describe how to use the presenter’s play-based trauma assessment model for children who have experienced sexual abuse.
- List the components of evidence-based trauma treatment for child sexual abuse.
- Describe at least eight play therapy techniques for use in individual or group therapy sessions with children who have experienced sexual abuse.
- Identify how to provide trauma-informed support for caregivers.
- Explain a play-based approach for intervening in suspected but unsubstantiated cases of child sexual abuse.
Sources and Resources (click to expand):
Ali, S. (2024). Examining the short and long-term impacts of child sexual abuse. Discover Psychology, 4, Article 52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00852-6
Gkintoni, E., Kourkoutas, E., Yotsidi, V., Stavrou, P. D., & Prinianaki, D. (2024). Clinical efficacy of psychotherapeutic interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents: A systematic review and analysis. Children, 11(5), 579. https://doi.org/10.3390/children11050579
Kenney-Noziska, S. (2026). Play therapy and childhood sexual abuse: A clinical guide to practice. Routledge.
Lowenstein, L. (2014). Cory helps kids cope with sexual abuse: Playful activities for traumatized children. Champion Press.
Menhart, R., Schlosser, M., & Witt, A. (2025). Medical and psychosocial care procedures after child and adolescent sexual abuse: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Child Abuse & Neglect, 152.
Moon, J., Kim, L., & Cumpian, D. (2025). Exploring play therapy and childhood trauma: A recent content analysis (2010–2023). International Journal of Play Therapy, 34(4), 182–194. https://doi.org/10.1037/pla0000240
Thielemann, J.F.B., Kasparik, B., König, J., Unterhitzenberger, J., & Rosner, R. (2022). A systematic review and meta-analysis of trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy for children and adolescents. Child Abuse & Neglect, 134, 105899. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105899
Course Access Information:
Registration includes 1 month of access to the on-demand recording following the live webinar, when an on-demand recording is available and when applicable.
CE Credits:
6 CE Live Online Contact Hour(s)
Note: Live interactive webinar is considered the same as live in person by most states. Please confirm with your local board.
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, psychologists, #PSY-0236 and for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0142. Note: This course provides 6 Clinical Contact Hour(s) live online credits (via interactive webinar) or live in person.
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.
ASWB ACE ApprovedCore Wellness, LLC, #1745, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 5/18/2024 to 5/18/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 6 Clinical continuing education credits.
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APA Approved
Core Wellness, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Core Wellness, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
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