ONLINE, on-demand
7.5 CPD hours
Includes 6x recorded sessions for 75mins each, at the equivalent of just $70 per session
Role plays by Katherine Olejniczak as therapist, demonstrating therapeutic skills
Recordings available for 1 year from date of purchase
Post-workshop support via a closed Facebook Group
PLEASE NOTE: These workshops are recordings of live deliveries.
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Following on from our highly popular workshops focussed on working with parents/caregivers – “Be My Co-Therapist” and “Working with Parent Mental Health Presentations” – this new and unique PD series brings to life key principles and concepts covered.
This is your opportunity to be a “fly on the wall” and observe Katherine at work as she demonstrates therapeutic skills in practice!
Through in-depth role plays with Katherine as therapist, we will explore ways of working sensitively with parents/caregivers in common scenarios that arise in our child and play therapy practice.
Topics & Key learning objectives:
1) Setting up parent/caregiver expectations of your service and the therapy process
2) Working sensitively with parent/caregiver own difficult experiences during initial assessment session (e.g. Postnatal Depression, guilt, grief and loss)
3) Developing ad sequencing therapeutic goals – having hard conversations and identifying shared goals when parent/caregiver goals may be different to what the therapist recommends
4) Working sensitively with parent/caregiver mental health presentations during the course of therapy (e.g. parental anxiety, trauma)
5) Building parental reflective functioning
6) Open session – Katherine role plays your hot topics
Our Be My Co-Therapist™ approach to child and play therapy is based in our understanding that children develop and heal in the context of their attachment relationships, and the most effective change occurs for children when their important adults are involved in the change process. As child therapists, we inevitably also engage with children’s parents/caregivers. In doing so, we work with parents/caregivers’ own vulnerabilities and challenges. Yet many child therapists feel they lack confidence in this important area of their work. If this is you, this Skills in Practice series is for you!
TRAINER
Katherine Olejniczak – one of the elders of the play therapy field in Australia. Katherine is Director of Psychology and Play Therapy Australia. She is an experienced psychologist, play therapist, supervisor, trainer, consultant, mentor and leader, and a published author.
Katherine is committed to the growth of play therapy in Australia and is a respected leader in this field. She developed Australia’s only current Play Therapy Supervisor Competencies and the first competency-based Play Therapy Supervisor Training in Australia.
She is also an AHPRA Psychology Board of Australia Approved Supervisor Trainer, and has two PsyBA supervisor masterclasses approved by the Board.
Her specific clinical and leadership interest areas include childhood trauma and recovery; play therapy; interpersonal neuroscience; and integrating interpersonal neuroscience into play therapy process, supervision and leadership development.
Who should attend?
This workshop is essential for all mental health clinicians working with children – psychologists, play therapists, counsellors, social workers, occupational therapists etc. It is also suitable for those working more broadly with children/parents/families across family and community services, Child Safety Services and OoHC sectors (e.g. case managers, foster care workers).