Play Therapy Course

This Play Therapy course equips learners with the skills to actively support children and young people in navigating various challenges.

Online
Online
1.5 hours

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Course overview of Play Therapy

This Play Therapy course equips learners with the skills to actively support children and young people in navigating various challenges. Moreover, this course also explores how to address pervasive issues like anxiety and aggression. While also how to tackle specific concerns stemming from experiences like bereavement or trauma. Furthermore, learners will gain insights into how to effectively guide children through these obstacles, fostering resilience and emotional well-being.

Also, the Play Therapy course will delve into the intricacies of play therapy, therefore helping practitioners to adeptly address a spectrum of issues. Additionally, the training will utilise play as a therapeutic tool. Therefore, they can manage attachment difficulties, enhance communication skills, mitigate behavioural and emotional struggles, and hone social competencies.

Furthermore, through engaging in play, children are provided with a safe avenue to explore and express their emotions. This proactive approach empowers children to confront their challenges head-on. In addition to this, it promotes healthier emotional development and adaptive coping mechanisms.

Also, by facilitating a space where children can freely express themselves, play therapy helps them understand and clarify disturbing or frightening feelings and events. It enables them to confront and process unsettling emotions and experiences that may otherwise linger unresolved in their minds.

Course content

This course will cover:

  • What is play therapy? And how do you approach it?
  • Who is play therapy for?
  • What are the play therapy techniques?
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Aims of Play Therapy course

By the end of this course, you will:

  • What play therapy is and how it works
  • The types of behaviour and how it can be addressed
  • When to apply play therapy techniques
  • When to refer to a trained play therapist

What audience is this online course suitable for?

This Play Therapy training course is for people who work within Children's Services. However, it will also be useful to a wider audience of people including parents and the Education sector to help understand how play techniques can be used in other working roles.