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Designing an Evidence-Based Play Therapy Program
- Faculty:
- Susan Hamre
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 47 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Sep 30, 2016
- Product Code:
- WDS020603
- Brochure Code:
- WDPTPLATHR
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
- Access:
- Never expires.
Description
Embed Evidence-Based Interventions in Fun, Everyday Activities
Play therapy is a highly effective vehicle for promoting cognitive, physical, social-emotional, and language development. While it continues to evolve at breakneck pace alongside advances in technology, its core concepts remain simple, adaptable, and budget-friendly for parents and clinicians alike. Best of all, play therapy feels natural for clients, allowing you to embed evidence-based interventions in everyday activities. This program will show you how to incorporate play into a child and family’s daily routine, as well as enhance parental engagement in the process and improve compliance with therapy outside of sessions.
In this recording, we’ll explore the essential “how-to” details of play therapy, walking through individual and group sessions and connecting each step with supporting research and child development theory, from room setup and activity/toy selection to your role as a coach and facilitator. Discover effective ways to individualize approaches according to client and family needs, such as when working with clients who demonstrate challenging behaviors or have sensory processing/communication deficits. We’ll also discuss how to provide play therapy with the same level of structure and accountability found in traditional skill-based training, showing you how to operationalize general tasks that are often poorly defined, from conducting parent consultations to measuring and documenting progress for parents and third-party payers. Case studies throughout the seminar offer relevant practice examples, illustrating how to carry out effective sessions while responding to a range of variables and challenges.
By the end, you’ll come away with a toolbox filled with ready-to-use techniques that can be immediately implemented in your work with children and clients of all ages. Whether you’re searching for guidance on how to incorporate play therapy into your practice or a refresher on the latest methods and techniques, this course is designed for you.
Credits
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Manual_Designing an Evidence-Based Play Therapy Program (34.46 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Course Powerpoint_Designing an Evidence-Based Play Therapy Program (3.20 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Susan Hamre Related seminars and products
MA, CCC/SLP
Susan Hamre, MA, CCC/SLP, is an ASHA-certified speech/language pathologist with over 40 years of clinical, teaching, and research experience, specializing in autism interventions within home, school, hospital, and community settings. Since earning her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Northern Michigan University, she has owned and managed a private practice in Santa Fe for more than 25 years, serving individuals from infancy to adulthood, with an emphasis on developmental disabilities, ASD, and various other challenging conditions.
Additionally, Ms. Hamre is the director of the Autism Training Center at Giant Steps (a therapeutic day school for individuals with ASD) near Chicago, Illinois. She is a frequently requested speaker who has provided numerous continuing education trainings across the country on ASD. In her spare time, she has made five Operation Smile mission trips – four to the Philippines and one to Africa. While those trips were medical in nature (cleft lip and palate), on every one of those trips, Ms. Hamre helped identify the existence of probable autism, steered families in the right direction, and supported medical personnel in discovering how best to work with this unique population. Those situations underscore her belief that with trained eyes, the unique set of characteristics that cloak ASD can be not only spotted at a very young age, but worked with successfully in all sorts of environments – even when the same language is not being spoken.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Susan Hamre maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Las Cumbres Community Services. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Susan Hamre has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Additional Info
Program Information
Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive) Access never expires for this product.Target Audience
Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Rehab Directors, Educators, Early Childhood Staff, Early Childhood Special Education Teachers, Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors
Outline
Course Content
Review THE BASICS: DEVELOPMENTAL Sequence, ZONES OF DEVELOPMENT, AND SENSORY Development/ Input
- Zones of development
- Domains of development
- Developmental milestones review: birth - age 1
- Developmental milestones review: ages 1-3
- Developmental milestones review: ages 4-6
- Developmental milestones review: ages 6 - young adulthood
- Sensory/auditory input, communicative development
- Variation and variability in development
TYPES and stages OF PLAY, Evaluating Play, and Structuring PLAY
- Define and describe the stages of play in which children engage
- Describe the types of play in which children engage
- Play and communication development: the relationship of play and communication
- Video analysis of types and stages of play
- Understanding the value of free play
- Conducting assessments/evaluations of play
- Providing structure and accountability
The evidence behind play: Play and Development, senSory play interventions, and Strategies for clients with challenging/oppositional behaviors
- Explore the evidence and research of the different types and stages of play
- Examine the research about play and development
- Review the evidence of parental involvement and participation
- Play to enhance communication
- Sensory play
- Differentiate between a meltdown and temper tantrum
HANDS-ON LABORATORY PLAY TIME
- Guided demonstration and attendee participation of techniques for different ages and stages of play
MAKING PLAY ACCESSIBLE/ AFFORDABLE, DOCUMENTING INTERVENTIONS, AND GETTING YOUR FAMILIES INVESTED IN PLAY
- Making toys and play affordable and accessible to all
- Strategies for clients with sensory processing challenges
- Strategies for clients with communication challenges
- Strategies for clients with challenging behaviors
- Screen time: actual vs recommended
- Toy libraries
- Accessible play spaces
- Community involvement in play
- Parent consultations
- Facilitating parent interactions
- Playroom set up
- Measuring and documenting progress for parents and third party payers
Objectives
- Describe the stages of development from birth through young adulthood
- Define the different types of play, and analyze the relationship between play and development
- Explore hands on techniques to enhance your treatment sessions
- Investigate the latest research on play and how to apply it to your treatment sessions
- Discover positive/appropriate uses of ‘screen time’ for children
- Evaluate how to better facilitate parent interaction and enhance development through play
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