With some families, the best approach to family therapy is play therapy–families that need to learn to have fun together, families that need to learn new positive ways of communicating, families that need to learn to support and encouragement one another can all benefit from a play-based intervention approach. In this interactive and entertaining 3-hour workshop, learn to use Adlerian play therapy tools to build relationships with teens and adults, conceptualize their patterns of communicating and interacting, help them gain a clear understanding of themselves and the other members of the family, and facilitate them learning more positive methods for interacting with one another.
In this 3-hour workshop, participants will experience a wide variety of fun play therapy activities that you can use with your teen and adult clients. Our focus will be on creative strategies that therapists can use to “hook” adolescents and adults into engaging fully in the therapeutic process. Through these play therapy interventions, clients can gain a sense of belonging, develop positive identities, increase self-esteem, build meaningful relationships, gain personal power in positive ways, and practice appropriate expression of feelings, including anger.
After the session, participants will be able to:
- Describe two play therapy techniques they can use to build relationships with adolescent and adult clients.
- Describe two play therapy techniques they can use to explore lifestyle with adolescent and adult clients.Describe two play therapy techniques they can use to help adolescent and adult clients gain insight in therapy.
- Describe two play therapy techniques they can use in therapy to help adolescent and adult clients make changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving.
- Describe an art technique they can use in therapy with adolescent and adult clients to help them learn to build meaningful relationships and gain a sense of belonging.
- Describe a movement, music, and dance techniques they can use in therapy to help adolescent and adult clients enhance their healthy expression of feelings, including anger.
