The Play Therapy Training Institute, Inc.

Seminar #152
PLAY THERAPY FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN

Instructor: Donna Cangelosi, Psy.D., RPT-S
Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

This workshop will provide an overview of how children at various developmental stages perceive, process and cope with early losses and separations.  Focus will be on the short and long-term effects of separation and loss experience resulting from illness, hospitalization, death and relocation.  Topics to be discussed will include: the mourning process in children; the emotional challenges which they are confronted with; themes which are commonly seen in their play; the importance of the therapeutic relationship and useful interventions and play therapy techniques for working with this population.

INSTRUCTOR: Donna Cangelosi, Pys.D., RPT-S, is co-editor of Play Therapy Techniques and The Playing Cure and author of Saying Goodbye in Child Psychotherapy as well as several chapters dealing with psychodynamic play therapy. She has also written a number of children's books addressing issues related to separation anxiety, divorce, and ADHD.  Dr. Cangelosi is in  private practice in Wayne, NJ where she provides psychotherapy, parent education and clinical supervision.

Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008 – 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

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