Play More. Be Well.
PLAY THERAPY IMPLEMENTATION (Full Module)
Presented by Play Wellness LLC / Yolanda Fountain, Ph.D., LPC, RPT-S, ACS, NCC
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The Play Therapy Implementation module assists clinicians with building case conceptualization skills related to play therapy treatment planning, thematic identification and integration, and documentation. This Play Wellness learning experience includes the following workshops: Play Therapy Treatment Planning (6 CEs), Play Therapy Themes (12 CEs), and Play Therapy Documentation (6 CEs). These are live, in-person workshops that focus on the following APT training content area: Play Therapy Techniques/Skills (30 hours).
Daily Schedule
8:45 am – 9:00 am: Sign-In
9:00 am – 10:30 am: Training
10:30am – 10:45 am: Break
10:45 am – 12:15 pm: Training
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm: Lunch (on your own)
1:15 pm – 2:45 pm: Training
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm: Break
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Training
8:45 am – 9:00 am: Sign-In
9:00 am – 10:30 am: Training
10:30am – 10:45 am: Break
10:45 am – 12:15 pm: Training
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm: Lunch (on your own)
1:15 pm – 2:45 pm: Training
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm: Break
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Training
The Play Therapy Implementation module includes the learning objectives of the following workshops:
Play Therapy Treatment Planning (6 CEs)
Play Therapy Themes (12 CEs)
Play Therapy Documentation (6 CEs)
Play Therapy Treatment Planning (6 CEs)
- Review one play therapy treatment planning guideline as described in the Play Therapy Best Practices (Association for Play Therapy, 2016)
- Recognize three values of treatment planning within the context play therapy
- Examine one sample treatment outline and recognize optional treatment guidelines based on various play therapy theories
- Review one sample play therapy treatment plan
- Explore steps for writing S.M.A.R.T. play therapy treatment plan goals
- Practice writing Child Centered Play Therapy treatment guides to enhance therapeutic objectives
- Practice writing S.M.A.R.T. family, directive, and group play therapy goals related to assessment, treatment, and termination
- Practice writing S.M.A.R.T. play therapy goals related to specific client needs and diagnoses
- Identify five relevant play therapy interventions used to support S.M.A.R.T. play therapy treatment plan goals
Play Therapy Themes (12 CEs)
- Identify three benefits of theme recognition and interpretation in play therapy
- Review Benedict’s Expanded Themes in Play Therapy (Benedict, 2001)
- Explore seven play types that can be present in play therapy sessions
- List four stages within the play therapy session
- Examine eight types of power and aggressive play therapy themes
- Explore twelve types of attachment and family play therapy themes
- Recognize eighteen types of control and safety play therapy themes
- Describe three types of exploration and mastery play therapy themes
- Identify four types of sexualized play therapy themes
- Explore four types of non-play play therapy themes
- Recognize twenty types of interpersonal relating play therapy themes
- Acknowledge four types of process play therapy themes
- List multiple themes displayed in a play therapy session to enhance theme identification and interpretation
Play Therapy Documentation (6 CEs)
- Review two play therapy documentation guidelines as described in the Play Therapy Best Practices (Association for Play Therapy, 2016)
- List three ways to document responsibility and ethically within play therapy
- Explore the pros and cons regarding the use of electronic health records within the context of play therapy
- Review essential components of a play therapy session note
- Examine two play therapy session notes, including the BASK session summary
- Practice writing a play therapy session note to enhance documentation and case conceptualization skills
This workshop provides twenty-four (24) continuing education hours. Certificates are issued at the end of the workshop pending full attendance and completion of the workshop evaluation.
Play Therapists: Play Wellness LLC has been approved as a continuing education provider by the Association for Play Therapy: APT Approved Provider 16-449. Per the Association for Play Therapy (APT), play therapy training may not be awarded to non-mental health professionals. APT alone holds the right to accept or deny any continuing education training at its discretion.
Counselors: Play Wellness LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6828. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Play Wellness LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Other Professionals: This course qualifies for 24 hours of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.
Play Therapists: Play Wellness LLC has been approved as a continuing education provider by the Association for Play Therapy: APT Approved Provider 16-449. Per the Association for Play Therapy (APT), play therapy training may not be awarded to non-mental health professionals. APT alone holds the right to accept or deny any continuing education training at its discretion.
Counselors: Play Wellness LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6828. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Play Wellness LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Other Professionals: This course qualifies for 24 hours of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.
ABILITIES: Play Wellness is glad to make reasonable efforts to accommodate participants with different abilities. If the participant needs ADA accommodations, the participant needs to discuss his/her specific needs and make the necessary arrangements before registering and with at least ten (10) business days advanced notice via phone at 678-395-4965 or email at training@playwellness.net.
ATTENDANCE: By registering for the workshop, the participant is pledging to arrive on time and stay for the duration of the workshop. Per associations that grant CEs, participants who arrive late or depart early from the workshop will forfeit CEs for the entire workshop. Handouts are not provided to participants who miss the training. If the participant misplaces a CE certificate, there is a $25 replacement fee.
CANCELLATIONS: Written cancellation requests that are emailed to training@playwellness.net with at least 10 business days prior to the selected training will be provided a refund minus a $40 per training day processing fee. Credit/refunds are not provided for scheduled trainings that are cancelled with less than ten business days of notice. Play Wellness LLC reserves the right to cancel a workshop due to inclement weather or instructor illness/emergency. When applicable, participants will be notified via email prior to the date of the cancelled workshop. Participants will be emailed information regarding the rescheduled date within ten business days of the cancelled workshop.
CAPACITY: Play Wellness reserves the right to change locations, formats, and/or offer additional dates and times for workshops that do not have enough registrants or that are full to capacity. Participants will be provided with advanced notice if applicable.
GRIEVANCE: Play Wellness desires for you to receive quality training in a fun learning environment. If the participant has a concern regarding any aspect of the workshop, it is expected that the participant will address it with the continuing education chair, Yolanda Fountain, Ph.D., LPC, RPT-S, ACS, NCC, via verbal and/or written documentation aimed at achieving a satisfactory resolution for the participant. To assure fair treatment for all participants and attempts to anticipate problems, the advisory committee may be included in the process.
PHOTOS/VIDEOS: Play Wellness shares professional fun moments taken during our trainings on our social media pages and for other educational purposes. Images (photos or videos) may be edited, copied, exhibited, published or distributed in perpetuity with no geographic limitations. If you prefer not to have your likeness published, please document such desires in the “additional comments/questions” section of the registration page.
ATTENDANCE: By registering for the workshop, the participant is pledging to arrive on time and stay for the duration of the workshop. Per associations that grant CEs, participants who arrive late or depart early from the workshop will forfeit CEs for the entire workshop. Handouts are not provided to participants who miss the training. If the participant misplaces a CE certificate, there is a $25 replacement fee.
CANCELLATIONS: Written cancellation requests that are emailed to training@playwellness.net with at least 10 business days prior to the selected training will be provided a refund minus a $40 per training day processing fee. Credit/refunds are not provided for scheduled trainings that are cancelled with less than ten business days of notice. Play Wellness LLC reserves the right to cancel a workshop due to inclement weather or instructor illness/emergency. When applicable, participants will be notified via email prior to the date of the cancelled workshop. Participants will be emailed information regarding the rescheduled date within ten business days of the cancelled workshop.
CAPACITY: Play Wellness reserves the right to change locations, formats, and/or offer additional dates and times for workshops that do not have enough registrants or that are full to capacity. Participants will be provided with advanced notice if applicable.
GRIEVANCE: Play Wellness desires for you to receive quality training in a fun learning environment. If the participant has a concern regarding any aspect of the workshop, it is expected that the participant will address it with the continuing education chair, Yolanda Fountain, Ph.D., LPC, RPT-S, ACS, NCC, via verbal and/or written documentation aimed at achieving a satisfactory resolution for the participant. To assure fair treatment for all participants and attempts to anticipate problems, the advisory committee may be included in the process.
PHOTOS/VIDEOS: Play Wellness shares professional fun moments taken during our trainings on our social media pages and for other educational purposes. Images (photos or videos) may be edited, copied, exhibited, published or distributed in perpetuity with no geographic limitations. If you prefer not to have your likeness published, please document such desires in the “additional comments/questions” section of the registration page.
Yolanda Fountain, Ph.D., LPC, RPT-S, ACS, NCC is the founder of Play Wellness LLC and is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor (RPT-S), an Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), and a National Certified Counselor (NCC). She earned a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from Mercer University and a post-graduate certificate in Working with Survivors of Violence, Torture, and Trauma from the University of Maryland.
Dr. Fountain has worked in the mental/behavioral health field since 2006 in the grade school, community, psychiatric residential, college counseling, and private practice settings. She specializes in play therapy and sandtray therapy and providing care to business and helping professionals, parents and their infants/children, and trauma survivors. She has extensive experience in higher education as a counselor, professor, and clinical supervisor. Dr. Fountain loves and teaches graduate-level play therapy and mental health courses at several universities. She has also presented at local, regional, national, and international conferences on multiple topics related to mental health (wellness and illness). Dr. Fountain strongly advocates for the effective care and wellbeing of clinicians to stimulate optimal client care and wellness.
Dr. Fountain has worked in the mental/behavioral health field since 2006 in the grade school, community, psychiatric residential, college counseling, and private practice settings. She specializes in play therapy and sandtray therapy and providing care to business and helping professionals, parents and their infants/children, and trauma survivors. She has extensive experience in higher education as a counselor, professor, and clinical supervisor. Dr. Fountain loves and teaches graduate-level play therapy and mental health courses at several universities. She has also presented at local, regional, national, and international conferences on multiple topics related to mental health (wellness and illness). Dr. Fountain strongly advocates for the effective care and wellbeing of clinicians to stimulate optimal client care and wellness.
Play Wellness’ workshops integrate theory and experiential learning. Teaching methods often include a lecture with an accompanying PowerPoint presentation, individual/group experiential activities, individual reflection, group discussion, role-playing, case presentations, critical thinking exercises, video review/critique, and/or an e-learning examination.
Our workshops are evaluated based on the following criterion: 1) Program Objectives, 2) Content, 3) Instructor, 4) Venue/Setting, and 5) Learning.
This is a newly offered module. Reviews are forthcoming...
This is a newly offered module. Reviews are forthcoming...