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Foundations of Child & Play Therapy Practice
Develop the core clinical thinking skills that underpin effective child and play therapy
Working with Children
Deepen your understanding of children's development, therapeutic processes, and complex presentations
Working with Parents, Caregivers & Systems
Build confidence working therapeutically with the adults around the child
Play Therapy Supervision
Professional development training opportunities for currently registered and aspiring Play Therapy Supervisors
Foundations of Child & Play Therapy Practice
Foundations of Case Conceptualisation and Developing Measurable Therapeutic Goals
This short workshop provides the foundational knowledge for formulating case conceptualisations when working with children. You will be introduced to the 5P’s framework – one of the most commonly used case conceptualisation tools in the psychology and mental health space across Australia.
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Revisiting Case Conceptualisation: The Cornerstone of Therapeutic Practice
This workshop will add to your existing knowledge and skills by sharpening your case formulation skills to deepen clinical work, remain targeted towards the needs of the client and their system, and transform therapeutic outcomes.
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Case Conceptualisation and Reporting Progress PD Series
This PD Series consists of 4 workshops designed to move you the through the foundations so you have a solid base for developing the therapeutic goals and selecting the most appropriate therapeutic approach for the child….to conceptualising the child’s therapy process and progress….and then reporting on progress and/or change.
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Report Writing: Conceptualising and Reporting Progress
Do you sometimes feel like a little lost in the forest when it comes to pulling together all you know about the child and their therapy process and/or progress? This short workshop will offer a process to assist you in conceptualising this richness and effectively presenting it to the adults or systems around the child.
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Child-Sensitive Service Delivery Design
THIS WORKSHOP IS PARTICULARLY SUITED TO THOSE WORKING IN PRIVATE PRACTICE SETTING with a focus on provision of counselling/therapy for children. Reflective, practical, action-focussed, and grounded in the needs of the child and your business.
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Kids Talk Too: Verbal Counselling Skills for Child and Play Therapists
This is workshop 1 in a series of workshops designed to equip child and play therapists with essential foundational verbal counselling skills across 4 evidence-based therapy modalities. This workshop will focus on general and Humanistic verbal counselling skills for children.
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Understanding and Responding to Shame in Children
This webinar is must for all child and play therapists as we focus in on the child’s development of self - the very heart of all our work. We examine how children develop their self-concept, how shame develops and the impacts of shame on their perception of self. Most importantly, we’ll identify an essential therapeutic technique that has the power to transform a child’s healing from shame and develop a healthier self-concept.
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Responding to Suicidal Ideation in Children
Child and play therapists are often the first service provider a child and/or their parent/caregiver shares their suicidal ideation with. This webinar equips child and play therapist with the essential knowledge and skills to effectively respond to your child who presents with suicidal ideation.
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Responding to Child Sexual Abuse and Inappropriate Sexualised Behaviours
This workshop offers practical information, frameworks of practice and therapeutic interventions for promoting protective behaviours when working with children who have experienced sexual abuse or engage in inappropriate sexualised behaviours.
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Child Therapy Masterclass - Themes in Play Therapy: Holding All the Possibilities
This Masterclass is for all play therapists seeking to deepen their understanding of children’s play and the numerous themes that emerge in the play therapy process. We will explore how to identify play themes through multiple theoretical lenses, and case discussion will illustrate how to consider them in the context of case conceptualisation and parent feedback.
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Child Therapy Masterclass Series - Cognitive Reprocessing in Play Therapy with Traumatised Children
This workshop addresses this scepticism by shedding light on the therapeutic process – the ‘how’ play therapy works to facilitate cognitive restructuring that addresses shame-based self-schemas, strengthens self-concept and supports a child’s healthy emergence of self.
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Child Therapy Masterclass Series - Integrative Play Therapy: Mastering the Art of the Play Therapy Dimensions Model
This workshop will enhance your existing knowledge and skills and support you to confidently move into integrative play therapy practice, anchoring to the Play Therapy Dimensions Model (PTDM). It will not only enhance your play therapy practice, it will also provide you with a clear framework and language to articulate your play therapy work to adults around the child.
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Child Therapy Masterclass Series - Neuroscience of Play: Applications in Practice
This workshop will bring you up to date with the latest neuroscience research and theories of play, and how this applies to play therapy practice. Through interactive discussion and case examples, it will offer practical frameworks and therapeutic applications for both your individual therapy with the child, and your work with their parents/caregivers or other systems around them (e.g. education).
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Child and Play Therapy Masterclass: Demystifying Trauma Recovery: Application of the 3-Phase Trauma Therapy Model with Children
This workshop demystifies the ‘how to’ of trauma recovery therapy with children by providing a robust clinical framework for the therapeutic process. It is relevant for both therapists and supervisors alike.
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Be My Co-Therapist™ Module 1: Parent Mental Health Vulnerabilities in Child and Play Therapy
This workshop will provide an overview of common mental health issues many parents/caregivers experience and support child therapists to recognise these presentations in their practice. Special consideration will also be given to the impacts of a parent’s fertility journey, family violence, and intergenerational trauma.
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Be My Co-Therapist™ Module 2: Clinical Skills for Working with Parents/Caregivers
This workshop will equip you with core adult counselling skills that supports parent/caregiver engagement. Specific focus will be on deepening assessment conversations, developing shared therapeutic goals and navigating differing views, providing effective feedback about children’s needs and therapy progress, offering therapeutic responses/approaches to be implemented at home, and having hard conversations.
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Be My Co-Therapist™ – Skills in Practice Demonstrations
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.
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Child Therapy Masterclass Series - Be My Co-Therapist™: Developing Therapeutic Response Plans
This workshop goes right to the heart of identifying a child’s primary therapeutic needs and processes of change, shaping these into highly specific therapeutic goals, and from this, developing individualised Therapeutic Response Plans for parents/caregivers/educators to implement in home and school contexts.
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More than a Genogram: Using the Symbolic Family Representation Technique to Gain Insight into a Child's Perceptions of the Quality of Their Family Relationships
This webinar strengthens child and play therapists’ skills in gaining insight into the child’s perceptions of the quality of their family (and other) relationships. While you may already use some version of a symbolic genogram, this webinar will go beyond the basics to show how you can use the Symbolic Family Representation Technique dynamically to gain rich and meaningful insights.
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3-hour Play Therapy Supervisor Masterclass: Play Therapy Supervision During Times of Change
Play Therapy finds itself in significant times of change in Australia… Supervisees are stressed. Supervisors are stressed…and doing their best to support their supervisees, but often without any formal training in change management to anchor to. This unique play therapy supervisor masterclass is so very timely!
GET INSTANT ACCESSOr to discuss a customised training workshop or conference keynote presentation for your organisation, please email us at katherine@psychologyandplay.com.au or call 0408 773 783.
