Play Therapy is not just a useful therapeutic method for children, it is also a preferred way of expression for adolescents and adults. Watch this recording and explore how you can use play therapy techniques with any client, regardless of age or symptom.
Cathy Bissett – Play Therapy for Children, Adolescents and Adults
30 Techniques for children, adolescents and adults
Recognize and apply metaphors
Mindfulness in play therapy
Effective techniques for ADHD, Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Abuse
Play Therapy is not just a useful therapeutic method for children, it is also a preferred way of expression for adolescents and adults. Watch this recording and explore how you can use play therapy techniques with any client, regardless of age or symptom. Learn proven techniques appropriate to your client’s stage in life, behavioral or emotional issues, and disorders. You will leave with a toolbox filled with Play Therapy techniques that you can use immediately with clients of all ages, including:
Over 30 cutting-edge techniques for clients of all ages
What techniques to apply to Anxiety, ADHD, anger, trauma and abuse.
Metaphors and understanding of the meaning of your client’s play
What a session should look like
Join Dr. Cathy Bissett as she shows you how effective Play Therapy is for development, communication, social-emotional skills and improving behavioral health.
Recognize the metaphors that a client presents to you and modify them into working, functional strategies.
Select the best techniques, depending upon the presenting issue.
Apply 30 techniques appropriate to the client’s stage of development.
Define, formulate and expand your own working schema of play therapy principles.
Apply the concept of scaffolding in play therapy regardless of age.
Describe the difference between your client’s cognitive understanding and emotionally driven change.
Play Therapy
Assessment and Diagnoses
Identify Themes
Age Appropriate Play
What techniques are Best for What disorders
Play In and Out of the Play Room
Recognizing the Schema
What a Session Looks Like
Integrate Play into Practice
Playing the Brain
Use of Sensory Information
Mind/Body Connection
Brain Re-mapping
The Well-Equipped Play Room
The Therapist as Collaborator
Play Therapy for Children
Children’s Metaphors
Identification
Scaffolding
Reframing
Reassessment
10 Techniques for Children
Art
Sand Tray
Parallel Play
Reciprocal Play (I-spy)
Animals
Modeling
Scaffolding
Rewards
Alliance development
Make believe
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Play Therapy for Adolescents
Adolescent Metaphors
Identification
Personal myths
Peer and external influences
Scaffolding
Reframing
Reversion and Reassessment
10 Techniques for Adolescents
Sharing “language”
Dress codes
Synchronicity and mirroring neurons: the continuous feedback loop; animals
Silence: where no one has gone before.
Respect
Slowing the process
Write it down!
Expect and demand
Know their culture
Never let them see you sweat; risk.
Play Therapy for Adults
Adult Metaphors
Identification
Exploration
When, Where, What, How and Why Support
Change and Reframe
Evolution
10 Techniques for Adults
Sand tray
Symbols
Art
Animals
Reciprocity
Identification and re-establishment of Values Systems
Amateur Hour
Saving Face
Refuge and Truth Telling
Search and Destroy: Love IS enough
Here’s What You’ll Get in Cathy Bissett – Play Therapy for Children, Adolescents and Adults
