Drawing from Synergetic Play Therapy and Interpersonal Neurobiology, this course will explore non-directive and directive play based interventions to help support play therapists like you on a path to understand the perfection in children’s perfectionism, while teaching the child how to do the same.
This course will take a deeper look at the regulatory function of the child’s behaviors that manage the internal conflicts and anxieties these children often carry. Through a combination of didactic presentation and experiential exercises, play therapists will learn how to separate the underlying drivers from the wisdom of the rituals themselves. With this knowledge, play therapists will learn how to use themselves and many forms of play to help these children access an understanding of the greatest perfection that exists, the child just as they are!
- Identify at least 3 OCD themes and examples of their obsessions/compulsions to better understand a child’s symptoms in a play therapy process
- Discuss the importance of the play therapist’s role as the child’s external regulator in treating OCD during a play therapy session
- Explore Synergetic Play Therapy’s concept of “The Set-Up/The Offering” with OCD in the playroom
- Explore how play therapy can help a child with OCD learn how to regulate through their anxiety
- Identify at least 3 ideas to help treat OCD in the play therapy process
- Discuss the importance of working with the entire family system in play therapy when a child is struggling with OCD
CE Credit Hours: 5 CE Credit Hours, NBCC Content Areas: Counseling Theory/Practice and the Counseling Relationship; Human Growth and Development
Synergetic Play Therapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7450. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Synergetic Play Therapy Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Synergetic Play Therapy Institute is also an Approved Provider for the following associations:
*Australian Play Therapists Association (APTA) Approved Provider
*British Columbia Play Therapy Association (BCPTA) Approved Provider 23-01
Continuing education credit hours may be awarded to graduate-level counselors or students enrolled in a graduate-level mental health program. If you do not qualify for continuing education credit hours and would like to receive a certificate of completion for this course please contact the Institute directly.
Each lesson of this course must be completed in order to receive a CE Certificate. Please click on the blue letters below, “Synergetic Play Therapy Institute – Course Agreements”, to begin. Once you have completed this first lesson, you will gain access to the next lesson to view the course video.
Please remember that your access to this course and its content will expire 365 days from the date of purchase.