WORKBOOK of Play Therapy - Essentials and Beyond
(7) CEUs KY Social workers and Play Therapists
Course Description:
Access the course here: playtherapycourse.com
This workbook will provide contemporary information for those wishing to learn the basics, as well as the intermediaries of play therapy. A wide population of mental health professionals, teachers and others working with families and children will value this comprehensive book. The manual is applicable to both the well-seasoned and budding child therapists. The text is useful to parents who want to understand a child’s inner emotional world to best help them to work through their struggles.
Why is this workbook necessary? Those who work with children should be aware that play is essential for good mental health. An intrinsic form of expression for children, play aids in the articulation of thoughts and feelings. It follows that play-based therapy is the natural method of choice for working with children’s psychosocial difficulties. Play therapy works, as it builds on a child’s natural communicative and learning processes. By witnessing how children engage in play, professionals, parents and other helpers can understand a child’s inner emotional world to best help them identify and recover from problems. In fact, research has established play therapy as a statistically viable intervention for children suffering with emotional and behavioral difficulties (Bratton, S., Ray, D., Rhine, T. & Jones, L., 2005).
Why is this workbook different? The workbook includes 20 worksheets and exercises to help readers enjoyably learn, as they go along, in a measured stepwise fashion. Peppered throughout this guidebook are engaging, original real-life anecdotes to enhance understanding and application of the concepts. Supportive images and photographs are offered to highlight ideas. Interesting practice vignettes presented after discussion topics help clinicians apply and increase knowledge. Tables and charts create clear cut examples to encapsulate the learning. Sample forms for use in personal therapeutic practice are suggested. Therapeutic tips and ‘how-to’ explanations supplement the reading content. Definitive terms are offered within the information and presented at each chapter’s end in a Glossary of Terms. Following each Glossary is a sample self-test with answer key to help the learner gain full comprehension of each section’s important features by checking understanding. Finally, resources are offered for further discovery into the remarkable world of play therapy.
