Sunday, November 2, 2014

Professional Development: Play Therapy - Vancouver

"Reading the Images in Play Therapy"

Presented by: Judith D. Bertoia, Ph.D.
Date: November 8th 2014@ 9:00 am – 4:30pm
Location: Italian Cultural Centre, 3075 Slocan Street, Vancouver (free parking)
Cost: only $75 for 6 hours of professional training (CEU)
(Light breakfast, refreshments and snacks provided, lunch on your own)

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

This workshop explores human experience as expressed through the images that appear in play therapy sessions. Lecture and experiential activities will be used to demonstrate the symbolic content within play activities, drawing, sandplay, stories, and other expressive activities that are essential components of play therapy. The workshop will examine the themes played out in therapy through the relationship between the conscious and unconscious content. The importance of personal, idiosyncratic meaning for the symbols and images are viewed in the context of traditional symbolic meaning and the mythical significance of images. Being able to grasp these deeper imaginal implications increases our understanding of emotions, behaviours, thoughts, symptoms and presenting problems the psyche presents to us in the play therapy session.

PROGRAM LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1) Learn key concepts within the imaginal language of play therapy.
2) Recognize nonverbal, non-nonlinear patterns of communication in play therapy.
3) Identify key elements for understanding the content of drawn images.
4) Learn the strengths, limitations and ethical use of interpreting or reading images.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Play therapists, family therapists, psychologists, clinical social workers, school counsellors and other mental health professionals working with children, adolescents and families will benefit from this training.
Go to our website www.bcplaytherapy.ca for more information and to register.


BC Play Therapy Association
www.bcplaytherapy.ca

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