Date and Time:

Friday, October 30, 2023

10:00am-1:15pm (EST)

Location

Zoom

Workshop Description: 

This workshop equips play therapists with the foundational skills to engage parents in play therapy with child clients.

Learning Objectives: 

1. Identify 3 reasons parent engagement improves therapeutic outcomes for children.

2. Recognize common barriers that prevent parents from engaging in therapy.

3. Compare and contrast directive and non-directive approaches and discuss how each approach influences the therapist’s engagement with parents.

4. Describe how attachment styles influence parent participation in play therapy.

5. Explain how to assess when and how to include parents in play therapy sessions.

Continuing Education Credit

3 Synchronous NBCC Clock Hours

3 APT Non Contact Hours

APT Content Area: Skills and Methods

Play therapy credit is only awarded to mental health professionals.

Completion of an evaluation is required to receive continuing education credit.

Participants are eligible to receive continuing education credit for our live webinars or in-person workshops only if they are present for the entirety of the workshop during all content blocks. To support participant engagement and learning, breaks are provided throughout the workshop. Full attendance during the designated content sessions is required to ensure credit is awarded.

Counselors: Bright Path Counseling and Consulting, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7614. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Bright Path Counseling and Consulting, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Bright Path Counseling and Consulting is an APT Approved Provider (#18-554).

This workshops may count as related hours towards license renewal for Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists in Georgia and other states.