Join us for a play therapy training offered by Marilyn Snow, Ph.D., LPC, RPT-S. CEUs offered!
Description: Counseling children in a playroom requires the clinician develop a set of skills to respond to the developmental level and “language” of children – Play. As Garry Landreth said “Toys are children’s words, Play is children’s language.” As play therapists, the challenge is to know how to respond to the “Play”. This workshop will briefly introduce the basic skills of play therapy: Tracking, Reflecting Feeling, Returning Responsibility, Limit Setting, and Questions. A video will be shown demonstrating the different skills and the child’s response as well as the benefits for the child and the clinician.
At the end of the workshop, the learner will be able to:
- Apply tracking and reflecting feeling techniques in play therapy when working with children in a playroom.
- Assess the need to return responsibility in play therapy to the child for his or her actions or activities in the playroom.
- Set limits in the playroom with a positive outcome in play therapy.
- Apply techniques to respond to questions in the playroom in play therapy.