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Play Therapy DVD and Book Bundle
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Authors:
CATHY L BISSETT, MBA, MA, PSYD
LYNNE KENNEY, PSYD
REBECCA COMIZIO, MA, MA-ED, NCSP
Publisher:
PESI Inc.
Copyright:
6/8/2016
CE Available:
Yes, See CE credit tab for complete continuing education details
Product Code:
RVKIT051615
Objectives
[+] [-] 061885-01 - Play Therapy for Children, Adolescents and Adults: Strategies to STOP Talking and Play It Out
  • Recognize the metaphors that a client presents to you and modify them into working, functional strategies.
  • Select the best techniques, depending upon the presenting issue.
  • Explore 30 techniques appropriate to the client’s stage of development.
  • Define, formulate and expand your own working schema of play therapy principles.
  • Apply the concept of scaffolding in play therapy regardless of age.
  • Discern the difference between your client’s cognitive understanding and emotionally driven change.

Outline
[+] [-] 061885-01 - Play Therapy for Children, Adolescents and Adults: Strategies to STOP Talking and Play It Out
Play Therapy
  • Assessment and Diagnoses
  • Identify Themes
  • Age Appropriate Play
  • What techniques are Best for What disorders
  • Play In and Out of the Play Room
  • Recognizing the Schema
  • What a Session Looks Like
 
Integrate Play into Practice
  • Playing the Brain
  • Use of Sensory Information
  • Mind/Body Connection
  • Brain Re-mapping
  • The Well-Equipped Play Room
  • The Therapist as Collaborator
 
Play Therapy for Children
  • Children’s Metaphors
  • Identification
  • Scaffolding
  • Reframing
  • Reassessment
 
10 Techniques for Children
  1. Art
  2. Sand Tray
  3. Parallel Play
  4. Reciprocal Play (I-spy)
  5. Animals
  6. Modeling
  7. Scaffolding
  8. Rewards
  9. Alliance development
  10. Make believe
 
Play Therapy for Adolescents
  • Adolescent Metaphors
  • Identification
  • Personal myths
  • Peer and external influences
  • Scaffolding
  • Reframing
  • Reversion and Reassessment
 
10 Techniques for Adolescents
  1. Sharing “language”
  2. Dress codes
  3. Synchronicity and mirroring neurons: the continuous feedback loop; animals
  4. Silence: where no one has gone before.
  5. Respect
  6. Slowing the process
  7. Write it down!
  8. Expect and demand
  9. Know their culture
  10. Never let them see you sweat; risk.
 
Play Therapy for Adults
  • Adult Metaphors
  • Identification
  • Exploration
  • When, Where, What, How and Why Support
  • Change and Reframe
  • Evolution
 
10 Techniques for Adults
  1. Sand tray
  2. Symbols
  3. Art
  4. Animals
  5. Reciprocity
  6. Identification and re-establishment of Values Systems
  7. Amateur Hour
  8. Saving Face
  9. Refuge and Truth Telling
  10. Search and Destroy: Love IS enough

Author

CATHY L BISSETT, MBA, MA, PSYD

Cathy L. Bissett, MBA, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Sedona, Arizona working with patients from 3 to 92 with a broad range of presenting disorders in a rural practice. A past member of the National Health Services Corps, Cathy is dedicated to seeking new ways to facilitate growth and wellness in children, adolescents, families and individuals. Cathy also owns a clinic for speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and physical therapists in Casa Grande, AZ.

Prior to being in private practice, Cathy worked with the students of the J. Pappas School - dedicated schools for homeless children in Phoenix, AZ, and at several one-school school districts in rural Arizona. She is a member of the Arizona Play Therapy Association. Speaker Disclosure:

Financial: Cathy L. Bissett maintains a private practice. She has an advisory board relationship with Ebtide.org and SharingResources.org. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Cathy L. Bissett is a member of the Arizona Play Therapy Association.

LYNNE KENNEY, PSYD

Dr. Lynne Kenney is the nation’s leading pediatric psychologist in the development of classroom cognitive-physical activity programs for students grades K-8. She develops curriculum, programming, and activities to improve children’s cognition through coordinative cognitive-motor movement, executive function skill building strategies, and social-emotional learning. Her current educational program is CogniMoves®, a classroom cognitive-motor movement program, co-developed with Benjamin S. Bunney, MD, Former Chairman Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. CogniMoves® is designed to strengthen executive function skills in K-3 students.

Dr. Kenney is a pediatric psychologist on the language & cognition team at Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia, Scottsdale, Arizona. She has advanced fellowship training in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor-UCLA/UCLA Medical School. As an international educator, researcher, and author, she is dedicated to improving the trajectory of children’s learning, particularly in high-need, under-resourced communities. Dr. Kenney’s books include Brain Primers, 2020 (Kuczala & Kenney); 70 Play Activities for Better thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning and Behavior (Kenney & Comizio, 2016); the Social-Emotional Literacy program, Bloom Your Room™; Musical Thinking™, and Bloom: 50 Things To Say, Think and Do with Anxious, Angry and Over-the-Top Kids (Kenney & Young, 2015). Her most recent endeavor is Cognitivities™, an original collection of portable mats that combine music, art, and movement developed with Fit and Fun Playscapes. Launched in 2024, this is the first Roll-Out Activities® mat of its kind, helping children with cognitive skills, executive function, and self-regulation in a calming and engaging way. In development, FlowMoves™ cognitive-motor movement cards for high-need communities and families to support co-regulation and self-regulation.

Since 1985, Dr. Kenney has worked as an educator in community services with national organizations including the Neurological Health Foundation, Head Start, Understood.org, HandsOn Phoenix, SparkPE, the First Nations in Canada, and Points of Light (Generation On). Dr. Kenney values working with Title I Schools.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Lynne Kenney is the creator of CogniSuite & The Kinetic Classroom and the co-creator of 5n45. She is the co-owner of Move2Learn, LLC and has an employment relationship with Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia. Dr. Kenney receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Lynne Kenney has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

REBECCA COMIZIO, MA, MA-ED, NCSP

Rebecca Comizio, MA, MA-Ed, NCSP, is the Director of Social-Emotional Learning and school psychologist at The Stanwich School in Greenwich, CT. She is working to utilize her education, training and life experience to positively affect the lives of children and families by advocating for students.
Continuing Education Credits Awarded for Completion of Entire Package
[+] [-] Combined Continuing Education Credit From All Components
Breakdown of Continuing Education Credits by Components
[+] [-] 061885-01 - Play Therapy for Children, Adolescents and Adults: Strategies to STOP Talking and Play It Out
[+] [-] 084495 - 70 Play Activities for Better Thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning & Behavior
Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Teachers/Educators, Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapists/Physical Therapy Assistants, and other Mental Health Professionals