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• Play Therapy and Divorce: How to Stay Out of Court

  • When
    27 Oct 2023
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    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  Play Therapy and Divorce: How to Stay Out of Court

  Play therapists are trained to keep the relationship with both parents and the children they work with, but when they get a subpoena to be involved in a custody case the relationship becomes quite challenged. Participants will learn how to handle divorce cases from intake session and beyond to keep themselves out of court. Participants will learn how to integrate play therapy to decrease triangulation, assess the co-parenting relationship, and treat children dealing with divorce.   

  Learning Objectives: After successful completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. create a divorce treatment plan from a play therapy perspective.
  2. use play therapy activities to help assess the co-parenting relationship, treat children with divorce, and decrease triangulation. 
  3. apply ethics involved in handling a subpoena and writing play therapy notes. 
  4. identify triangulation and how to use this as a goal to help heal the child with play therapy.

  3 APT Live Webinar CE | Intermediate | Play Therapy Special Topics

  This workshop meets APT's definition of "Live Webinar."
  

  About our presenter: Kelly Peyton, LPC-S, RPT-S™ is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor™, and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP). Kelly has thousands of hours of training focused on working specifically with teenagers and children using some of the latest research and clinical data. Some of her specialized training includes certification in play therapy, certification as a trauma specialist, training in Theraplay, complete EMDR training, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Certification in DBT, and a brain-based approach called the Neurosequential Model of therapeutics. She is also a LENS Neurofeedback practitioner and trained in the Safe Sound Protocol for acoustic vagus nerve stimulation. Her years of experience working with children, teenagers, and adults allow her to provide services to the whole family. She is the clinical director at Katy Counseling serving the greater Katy area and helping to train and equip the next generation of child, adolescent, and adult counselors.

  NEAPT Members $50; Guests $60 | Limited to 50 participants

  VIRTUAL: This will be a virtual meeting. Participants will be awarded LIVE WEBINAR CE upon successful completion of a post test. Participants must be visible throughout the presentation. This workshop meets APT's definition of "Live Webinar."

  NEAPT is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to Play Therapy. APT Approved Provider 02-123. NEAPT maintains responsibility for the program. Registrants understand and agree that any photograph (screen shot), video or audio recording of themselves may be used to further promote NEAPT.

  Cancellation Policy: All cancellations must be requested in writing and received no later than October 1, 2023. Cancellations are subject to a $15 processing fee. Substitutions (someone else attending) or transfer of registration to another training date may be requested. No refunds or partial refunds after October 1, 2023.

  By registering for this training, you are giving NEAPT permission to add your email to our email list and you are giving permission for NEAPT to use any photographs or screenshots that are taken during the event containing your likeness for promotional purposes.
  

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• Back to Basics: Adlerian Play Therapy

  • When
    17 Nov 2023
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    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  Back to Basics: Adlerian Play Therapy

  In Adlerian play therapy, therapists use the concepts of Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology to conceptualize children and their parents and teachers, while using toys, art, play material, and metacommunication to connect and communicate with them. The process of co-creating a relationship with the child through play allows therapists to communicate (mostly through metaphor, but sometimes through direct verbal interaction) in a way that facilitates exploration of the child’s patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, helps the child gain insight into those patterns, and invites the child to make changes in any patterns that are self-defeating or destructive. Engaging the child’s parents and teachers, exploring their own lifestyles and their interaction with the child, helping them to understand the child’s patterns, and teaching them skills for improving the relationship is an integral part of the custom-designed parent and teacher consultation component of Adlerian play therapy.   

  Learning Objectives: After successful completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. List and describe the four stages of Adlerian Play Therapy
  2. Explain how to use encouragement as a play therapy skill in Adlerian play therapy.
  3. List the Crucial Cs (Courage, Connect, Count, and Capable) and describe how the Crucial Cs are used in Adlerian play therapy.
  4. List the personality priorities (Comfort, Pleasing, Control, and Superiority) and explain how the personality priorities are used in Adlerian play therapy.
  5. List the goals of misbehavior (Attention, Power, Revenge, Proving Inadequacy), and explain how the goals of misbehavior are used in Adlerian play therapy.

  3 APT Live Webinar CE | Foundational | Play Therapy Seminal or Historically Significant Theories

  This workshop meets APT's definition of "Live Webinar."
  

  About our presenter: Erica Wassenaar holds a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She has Advanced Certification in AdPT. She teaches for the League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists (LEAPT). She is a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor™.  She is also trained in Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), Critical Incident Stress Management, AutPlay Therapy, PCIT, and EMDR. She is also a coordinator for KIDS Hope USA program through her church.  

  NEAPT Members $50; Guests $60 | Limited to 50 participants

  VIRTUAL: This will be a virtual meeting. Participants will be awarded LIVE WEBINAR CE upon successful completion of a post test. Participants must be visible throughout the presentation. This workshop meets APT's definition of "Live Webinar."

  NEAPT is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to Play Therapy. APT Approved Provider 02-123. NEAPT maintains responsibility for the program. Registrants understand and agree that any photograph (screen shot), video or audio recording of themselves may be used to further promote NEAPT.

  Cancellation Policy: All cancellations must be requested in writing and received no later than November 1, 2023. Cancellations are subject to a $15 processing fee. Substitutions (someone else attending) or transfer of registration to another training date may be requested. No refunds or partial refunds after November 1, 2023.

  By registering for this training, you are giving NEAPT permission to add your email to our email list and you are giving permission for NEAPT to use any photographs or screenshots that are taken during the event containing your likeness for promotional purposes.
  

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• Telehealth and Play Therapy: A Practical Guide to Teleplay

  • When
    1 Dec 2023
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    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  Telehealth and Play Therapy: A Practical Guide to Teleplay

  This workshop will provide clinicians with a “cheat sheet” resource guide of over 550 telehealth activities to use with young children and their caregivers. Participants will be provided with the tools to navigate the telehealth resources and utilize them confidently while providing online play therapy. Many clinicians report anxiety over providing telehealth treatment, especially teleplay, to young children and their caregivers. Research supports the efficacy of play therapy via telehealth, but providers often report that they don’t have the tools to implement the treatment. This workshop will demystify the process of how to play on the screen and increase awareness of teleplay as a better option for some clients, not just a fall back during a crisis. Using illustrations from successful telehealth sessions, this workshop will support clinicians in identifying which clients will benefit most from telehealth. There are children and families that find it easier to use teleplay to process trauma than face-to-face sessions. This workshop will explore how young children use the mode of telehealth to enhance their relationship with the clinician. Children often use the camera to manipulate the perspective of the therapist, which is a new facet of play therapy. Teleplay can make a clinician feel unmoored while the child client feels empowered. This dichotomy will be explored, and participants will learn how to harness the power of that dynamic for the benefit of their client. Participants will learn not just how to use teleplay but how to love it.

  Learning Objectives: After successful completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Utilize the telehealth cheat sheet to provide teleplay
  2. Identify ways to transform in person activities to teleplay platform
  3. Evaluate clients who are potentially more appropriate for teleplay than in person sessions

  3 APT Live Webinar CE | Intermediate| Play Therapy Special Topics

  This workshop meets APT's definition of "Live Webinar."
  

  About our presenter:  Katie Thomas is a Massachusetts LMHC who embraced telehealth and teleplay early in pandemic. Ms. Thomas was working at a Boston Hospital and lost access to her playroom. Ms. Thomas’ career has been focused on helping young children and their families after traumatic events.  

  NEAPT Members $50; Guests $60 | Limited to 50 participants

  VIRTUAL: This will be a virtual meeting. Participants will be awarded LIVE WEBINAR CE upon successful completion of a post test. Participants must be visible throughout the presentation. This workshop meets APT's definition of "Live Webinar."

  NEAPT is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to Play Therapy. APT Approved Provider 02-123. NEAPT maintains responsibility for the program. Registrants understand and agree that any photograph (screen shot), video or audio recording of themselves may be used to further promote NEAPT.

  Cancellation Policy: All cancellations must be requested in writing and received no later than November 10, 2023. Cancellations are subject to a $15 processing fee. Substitutions (someone else attending) or transfer of registration to another training date may be requested. No refunds or partial refunds after November 10, 2023.

  By registering for this training, you are giving NEAPT permission to add your email to our email list and you are giving permission for NEAPT to use any photographs or screenshots that are taken during the event containing your likeness for promotional purposes.
  

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• 4 + 3 = Goals of Misbehavior in Adlerian Play Therapy

  • When
    2 Feb 2024
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    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  4 + 3 = Goals of Misbehavior in Adlerian Play Therapy

  This webinar will be a mix of didactic and experiential learning. Participants will learn to identify the 4 unconscious goals of misbehavior, attention, power, revenge, and proving inadequacies. They will also gain understanding into the 3 conscious goals of misbehavior, getting, self-elevation, and avoiding. They will work through various scenarios to identify clients’ goals of misbehavior. Participants will also explore skills and techniques to help their clients make changes. They will work in small groups to explore effective storytelling techniques to help clients shift their goal of misbehavior from destructive to more adaptive ways.   

  Learning Objectives: After successful completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Name and describe the 4 unconscious goals of misbehavior, which are used in conceptualizing in Adlerian play therapy.
  2. Name and describe the 3 conscious goals of misbehavior, which are used in conceptualizing in Adlerian play therapy.
  3. Explain how to increase their own awareness around their cognitive, affective, and somatic experiences of countertransference in reaction to play therapy clients’ misbehavior.
  4. Describe at least 2 Adlerian play therapy skills designed to help clients make behavioral, cognitive, attitudinal, and affective changes related to the goals of misbehavior.
  5. Describe at least 3 Adlerian play therapy techniques designed to help clients make behavioral, cognitive, attitudinal, and affective changes related to the goals of misbehavior.

  3 APT Live Webinar CE | Foundational/Intermediate | Play Therapy Seminal or Historically Significant Theories and Play Therapy Special Topics

  This workshop meets APT's definition of "Live Webinar."
  

  About our presenter: Erica Wassenaar holds a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She has Advanced Certification in AdPT. She teaches for the League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists (LEAPT). She is a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor™.  She is also trained in Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), Critical Incident Stress Management, AutPlay Therapy, PCIT, and EMDR. She is also a coordinator for KIDS Hope USA program through her church.  

  NEAPT Members $50; Guests $60 | Limited to 50 participants

  VIRTUAL: This will be a virtual meeting. Participants will be awarded LIVE WEBINAR CE upon successful completion of a post test. Participants must be visible throughout the presentation. This workshop meets APT's definition of "Live Webinar."

  NEAPT is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to Play Therapy. APT Approved Provider 02-123. NEAPT maintains responsibility for the program. Registrants understand and agree that any photograph (screen shot), video or audio recording of themselves may be used to further promote NEAPT.

  Cancellation Policy: All cancellations must be requested in writing and received no later than January 12, 2024. Cancellations are subject to a $15 processing fee. Substitutions (someone else attending) or transfer of registration to another training date may be requested. No refunds or partial refunds after January 12, 2024.

  By registering for this training, you are giving NEAPT permission to add your email to our email list and you are giving permission for NEAPT to use any photographs or screenshots that are taken during the event containing your likeness for promotional purposes.
  

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• Playful Trauma-Informed Supervision: Expressive Approaches in Play Therapy Supervision

  • When
    9 Feb 2024
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    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  Playful Trauma-Informed Supervision: Expressive Approaches in Play Therapy Supervision

  Supervision is a cornerstone of professional development and the acquisition of clinical skills for play therapists. Using a trauma-informed lens, the workshop will explore play, art, and sand as expressive approaches for play therapy supervision.

  Learning Objectives: After successful completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify the core components of trauma-informed play therapy supervision
  2. Describe the use of play, art, and sand approaches to integrate into play therapy supervision from a trauma-informed lens
  3. Link specific play, art, and sand interventions with core components of trauma informed supervision for play therapists

  3 APT Live Webinar CE | Intermediate| Play Therapy Special Topics

  This workshop meets APT's definition of "Live Webinar."
  

  About our presenter: Sueann Kenney-Noziska, MSW, LCSW, RPT-S™, specializes in using play therapy in clinical practice with abused & traumatized children and adolescents. She has developed trauma informed interventions, is a contributing author to several publications, and has testified as an expert witness in the areas of child abuse and trauma on the state and national levels.

  NEAPT Members $50; Guests $60 | Limited to 50 participants

  VIRTUAL: This will be a virtual meeting. Participants will be awarded LIVE WEBINAR CE upon successful completion of a post test. Participants must be visible throughout the presentation. This workshop meets APT's definition of "Live Webinar."

  NEAPT is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to Play Therapy. APT Approved Provider 02-123. NEAPT maintains responsibility for the program. Registrants understand and agree that any photograph (screen shot), video or audio recording of themselves may be used to further promote NEAPT.

  Cancellation Policy: All cancellations must be requested in writing and received no later than January 19, 2024. Cancellations are subject to a $15 processing fee. Substitutions (someone else attending) or transfer of registration to another training date may be requested. No refunds or partial refunds after January 19, 2024.

  By registering for this training, you are giving NEAPT permission to add your email to our email list and you are giving permission for NEAPT to use any photographs or screenshots that are taken during the event containing your likeness for promotional purposes.
  

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