Dates: July 24-28, 2017
Speaker: Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S
Topic: Get Your Hands Dirty!
A Week of Expressive Arts and Sand Tray in Play Therapy
Location: Eastham, MA
Seminar Location: The Captain's Quarters
Rooms are $150/night at the motel and have 2 double beds/room.
Pet-friendly rooms available!
Registration: Register early for best discounts!
Click here to view registration fees and disounts
Register online:
www.newenglandplaytherapy.org
For more information, contact NE-APT:
[email protected]
Speaker: Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S
Topic: Get Your Hands Dirty!
A Week of Expressive Arts and Sand Tray in Play Therapy
Location: Eastham, MA
Seminar Location: The Captain's Quarters
Rooms are $150/night at the motel and have 2 double beds/room.
Pet-friendly rooms available!
Registration: Register early for best discounts!
Click here to view registration fees and disounts
Register online:
www.newenglandplaytherapy.org
For more information, contact NE-APT:
[email protected]
Advanced Case Consultation & Treatment Planning: The Use of Integrative Play Therapy with Children and Families
Dates: July 21-25 (Monday-Friday)
Hours: 1:00 - 3:30 p.m. daily
CEUs: 2 hours per day, 12.5 total (See below for additional CE information)
Presenter: Eliana Gil, Ph.D, RPT-S, ATR
Dr. Gil will meet with a small group in the afternoon for clinical case discussions focused on: treatment planning, clarity in goal-setting, and observation and documentation of both nondirective and directive play therapy approaches. Each afternoon, one or two participants will present a case example, which will then be discussed with Dr. Gil, using a conceptual model for treatment planning developed by Dr. Gil over the last 30 years. This model will be provided in a grid that will allow the therapist to identify the treatment goals and then select integrated play therapy activities that might best advance that goal. Salient issues will be identified for general discussion, counter-transference work will be done each day, and the larger group will have some time to present brief questions for discussion. Special focus will be provided on the art of integration, that is, how you select specific approaches or techniques at particular times in the therapy process. This can often be challenging to play therapists who have one primary mode or approach and question how to make smooth transitions that optimize success.
Learning Outcomes
After the session, participants will be able to:
1. Explain how to use a grid to prioritize and specify integrated play therapy treatment goals and objectives.
2. Explain how to assess risk factors and prioritize integrated play therapy goals based on those factors.
3. Articulate the rationale for thinking systemically/contextually about presenting problems focusing on child symptoms.
4. Describe two ways to "think play" in reference to children and family problems.
5. Explain how to formulate treatment goals with measurable objectives.
6. Describe two variables to be considered when selecting therapy approaches in an integrated play therapy approach.
DR GIL’S SEMINARS IN THE MORNING AND AFTERNOON ARE STAND-ALONE AND PARTICIPANTS CAN ATTEND ONE OR BOTH. Click here for information about her morning seminar.
Presenter: Eliana Gil, Ph.D., RPT-S, ATR,is in group private practice at the Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education in Fairfax.Virginia. Dr. Gil is also Director of Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy. She has worked in the field of child abuse prevention and treatment for the last forty years. Dr. Gil also consults and trains locally and across the country and she is an adjunct faculty member at Virginia Tech’s Family Therapy Department. She is a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, Registered Art Therapist, and a licensed Marriage, Family, & Child Counselor.
She has written numerous materials on child abuse and related topics and has a number of
educational videotapes that feature her work available through Guilford Press, as well as a self-
published videotape on Family Play Therapy. Her most recent books are Family Play Therapy,
Working with Children with Problem Sexual Behaviors (with Dr. Jennifer Shaw), Helping Abused
and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches and Helping
Children Heal from Interpersonal Trauma: The Power of Play. Dr. Gil is a well-known lecturer,
educator, author, and clinician. She is bilingual and bicultural, originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
Registered Play Therapists: PlayTherapyWorks is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. APT Provider # 00-098 (12.5 hours)
Licensed Social Workers: This program has been approved 12.5 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR, Collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and Simmons Schools of Social Work Authorization Number D-61415-2.
Licensed Counselors: This program has been approved for 12.5 Category 1 MaMHCA hours for relicensure, in accordance with 262 CMR. (Authorization Number 13-0909, Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association.)
Other CE credit: for information about other CE credits, contact Marcie at [email protected]
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Hours: 1:00 - 3:30 p.m. daily
CEUs: 2 hours per day, 12.5 total (See below for additional CE information)
Presenter: Eliana Gil, Ph.D, RPT-S, ATR
Dr. Gil will meet with a small group in the afternoon for clinical case discussions focused on: treatment planning, clarity in goal-setting, and observation and documentation of both nondirective and directive play therapy approaches. Each afternoon, one or two participants will present a case example, which will then be discussed with Dr. Gil, using a conceptual model for treatment planning developed by Dr. Gil over the last 30 years. This model will be provided in a grid that will allow the therapist to identify the treatment goals and then select integrated play therapy activities that might best advance that goal. Salient issues will be identified for general discussion, counter-transference work will be done each day, and the larger group will have some time to present brief questions for discussion. Special focus will be provided on the art of integration, that is, how you select specific approaches or techniques at particular times in the therapy process. This can often be challenging to play therapists who have one primary mode or approach and question how to make smooth transitions that optimize success.
Learning Outcomes
After the session, participants will be able to:
1. Explain how to use a grid to prioritize and specify integrated play therapy treatment goals and objectives.
2. Explain how to assess risk factors and prioritize integrated play therapy goals based on those factors.
3. Articulate the rationale for thinking systemically/contextually about presenting problems focusing on child symptoms.
4. Describe two ways to "think play" in reference to children and family problems.
5. Explain how to formulate treatment goals with measurable objectives.
6. Describe two variables to be considered when selecting therapy approaches in an integrated play therapy approach.
DR GIL’S SEMINARS IN THE MORNING AND AFTERNOON ARE STAND-ALONE AND PARTICIPANTS CAN ATTEND ONE OR BOTH. Click here for information about her morning seminar.
Presenter: Eliana Gil, Ph.D., RPT-S, ATR,is in group private practice at the Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education in Fairfax.Virginia. Dr. Gil is also Director of Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy. She has worked in the field of child abuse prevention and treatment for the last forty years. Dr. Gil also consults and trains locally and across the country and she is an adjunct faculty member at Virginia Tech’s Family Therapy Department. She is a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, Registered Art Therapist, and a licensed Marriage, Family, & Child Counselor.
She has written numerous materials on child abuse and related topics and has a number of
educational videotapes that feature her work available through Guilford Press, as well as a self-
published videotape on Family Play Therapy. Her most recent books are Family Play Therapy,
Working with Children with Problem Sexual Behaviors (with Dr. Jennifer Shaw), Helping Abused
and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches and Helping
Children Heal from Interpersonal Trauma: The Power of Play. Dr. Gil is a well-known lecturer,
educator, author, and clinician. She is bilingual and bicultural, originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
Registered Play Therapists: PlayTherapyWorks is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. APT Provider # 00-098 (12.5 hours)
Licensed Social Workers: This program has been approved 12.5 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR, Collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and Simmons Schools of Social Work Authorization Number D-61415-2.
Licensed Counselors: This program has been approved for 12.5 Category 1 MaMHCA hours for relicensure, in accordance with 262 CMR. (Authorization Number 13-0909, Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association.)
Other CE credit: for information about other CE credits, contact Marcie at [email protected]
2015 special registration form for newsletter