PLAY THERAPY TRAINING INSTITUTE
Our Play Therapy Institute introduces participants to a world unlike any other where play becomes the means to reach a child in need.
The Play Therapy Training Institute at Georgia State University strives to offer quality play therapy training through continuing education to professionals in the play therapy community. We also encourage networking, research and resources to those in this field. Our goal is to enrich and challenge each participant’s knowledge, skills and practice in the field of play therapy.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
The Play Therapy Training Institute Proudly Presents:
TERRY KOTTMAN, PH.D., RPT-S, NCC, LMHC
Creative Play Therapy Interventions
Thursday, May 18, 2023, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Description: In this fun and experiential workshop, you will learn practical play therapy intervention techniques for building a relationship, exploring clients’ lifestyles, helping clients gain insight, and facilitating them making changes in their behavior, thinking, and feelings. You will learn a model for metaphor design, therapeutic storytelling, art techniques, and structured play activities, you can use in your play therapy sessions for assessing clients and facilitating movement in their therapeutic process.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe one play therapy technique used to build a relationship with clients.
- Describe one play therapy technique used to explore clients’ lifestyles.
- Describe one play therapy technique to facilitate clients making changes in patterns of thinking, feeling, and/or behaving.
- Describe 1 method for designing therapeutic stories in play therapy.
- Explain one art technique for use in play therapy.
Presenter Information:
Terry Kottman, Ph.D., RPT-S, NCC founded The Encouragement Zone, a center in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she provides play therapy training and supervision, life coaching, counseling, and “playshops” for women. Terry developed Adlerian play therapy, an approach to counseling children that combines the ideas and techniques of Individual Psychology and play therapy. She regularly presents workshops and writes about play therapy, activity- based counseling, school counseling, and life coaching. She is the author of Partners in Play, Play Therapy: Basics and Beyond, and several other books.
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join with Them…Play Therapy Interventions Based on Video Games
Thursday, July 20, 2023, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Description: Many play therapy clients are avid video gamers. Instead of fighting a losing battle trying to convince them to stop, meet them where they are. Many play therapists are video game novices–or even video game haters. And video games are here to stay–with many of our clients. You can disapprove of video games, ignore them and hope they go away, or you can learn to use your knowledge of video games in your play therapy sessions. In this experiential workshop, participants will learn play therapy interventions based on the characters and plots of selected video games for building relationships with gamer play therapy clients. Workshop participants will learn techniques to help gamer clients gain insight into their self-defeating patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving and help them experiment with more adaptive patterns. You will leave with practical strategies you can use in your play therapy sessions to develop strategies for connecting, communicating, and intervening with gamer clients.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe three video games commonly played out in play therapy sessions and explain why certain play therapy clients might be attracted to them.
- Describe two play therapy interventions based on video games you could use to build a relationship with gamer clients and/or help gamer clients gain insight into maladaptive patterns of thinking, feeling, and/or behaving.
- Describe two play therapy interventions based on video games you could use to help gamer clients practice more appropriate ways of interacting with others.
- Develop an original intervention based on a video game one of your clients currently plays and describe how you could generalize the development process to create other video game-based interventions.
Presenter Information:
Terry Kottman, Ph.D., RPT-S, NCC founded The Encouragement Zone, a center in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she provides play therapy training and supervision, life coaching, counseling, and “playshops” for women. Terry developed Adlerian play therapy, an approach to counseling children that combines the ideas and techniques of Individual Psychology and play therapy. She regularly presents workshops and writes about play therapy, activity- based counseling, school counseling, and life coaching. She is the author of Partners in Play, Play Therapy: Basics and Beyond, and several other books.
These are IN-PERSON workshops and offer 3 APT Contact Play Therapy credits!
Georgia State University
College of Education & Human Development
30 Pryor Street, SW, Room 150 Atlanta, GA 30303
PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS
THE PLAY THERAPY TRAINING INSTITUTE
Previous Workshop
Claudio Mochi, M.A., RPT-S and Isabella Cassina, M.S., CAGS
Friday, October 14, 2022
Description of Training:
This interactive workshop provides an overview of an innovative model for intervention in crisis and potentially traumatizing contexts, “Coping with the present while building for the future” (CPBF). Emphasis will be placed on the role of play, play therapy, and expressive arts in a process-oriented approach targeting children, families, and professionals.
What does it mean to deal with trauma in crisis contexts? When is the appropriate time to do so? What should be done before and after? After getting into the subject matter by sharing theoretical assumptions, images, and videos from the field, the presenters will invite participants to reflect by engaging in creative activities and group discussions.
Learning Objectives:
• Discuss the relevance of a process-oriented approach in crisis contexts.
• Describe the main phases of the “Coping with the present while building for the future” (CPBF) model.
• Contextualize the treatment of trauma in crisis work.
• Analyze the role of play and expressive arts in the treatment of trauma in and out of the playroom.
Presenter(s) Information:
Claudio Mochi, MA, RP, RPT-S is a Clinical Psychologist, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. He specializes in emergency interventions and trauma treatment with twenty years of international field experience in disaster mental health. He has presented and trained on play therapy-related topics across six continents and in over twenty countries. Claudio is the founder of the Association for Play Therapy Italy (APTI) and the President and Director of the training program of the International Academy for Play Therapy Studies and Psychosocial Projects in Switzerland.
Isabella Cassina, MA, TP-S, CAGS is a Social Worker and specializes in international cooperation (IHEID Geneva) and migration. She is a Registered Therapeutic Play Specialist with the Italian Association for Play Therapy Italy (APTI) and has significant experience as a humanitarian worker focusing on the use of Play Therapy and Expressive Arts modalities in crisis interventions.
Psychological Interventions in Complex and Dynamic Settings: Lessons from the Front Lines
Previous Workshop
Claudio Mochi, M.A., RPT-S and Isabella Cassina, M.S., CAGS
Friday, October 14, 2022
Summary:
How can mental health professionals intervene in a world that appears increasingly complex and dynamic, in which situations of intense stress and trauma surround them and others? Presenters share key insights from their work in crisis contexts across 4 continents including videos and images and emphasizing the relevance of play and expressive arts as elements of psychological interventions.
About the presenters:
Claudio Mochi, MA, RP, RPT-S is Clinical Psychologist, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor with the Association for Play Therapy (APT). He specializes in emergency interventions and trauma with twenty years of international field experience in disaster mental health. He has presented and trained across six continents and in over twenty countries. Claudio is the founder of the Association for Play Therapy Italy (APTI) and the President and Director of the training program of the International Academy for Play Therapy Studies and Psychosocial Projects in Switzerland.
Isabella Cassina, MA, TP-S, CAGS is a Social Worker and specializes in international cooperation (IHEID Geneva) and migration. She is a Registered Therapeutic Play Specialist with the Italian Association for Play Therapy Italy (APTI) and has significant experience as a humanitarian worker focusing on the use of Play Therapy and Expressive Arts modalities in crisis interventions.
Contact Us
Contact
Dr. Jeff Ashby, Director
Phone: 404-413-8170 Fax: 404-413-8013
E-Mail: [email protected]
Katie Lowry, Department Business Manager
Phone: 404-413-8012 Fax: 404-413-8013
E-Mail: [email protected]
Play Therapy Training Institute – Georgia State University
Dr. Jeff Ashby, Director
Katie Lowry, Department Business Manager
Phone: 404-413-8012
Fax: 404-413-8013
E-Mail: [email protected]
Physical Address
Play Therapy Training Institute – Georgia State University
College of Education & Human Development
Department of Counseling & Psychological Services
30 Pryor Street, SW, Room 950
Atlanta, GA 30303
Mailing Address
Play Therapy Training Institute – Georgia State University
College of Education & Human Development
Department of Counseling & Psychological Services
P.O. Box 3980
Atlanta, GA 30302-3980