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The Play Therapy Training Institute, Inc.
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| Seminar #244 STORYTELLING
IN PLAY THERAPY: USING METAPHORIC COUNSELING TECHNIQUES In this experiential workshop, participants will learn strategies for using story techniques, including mutual storytelling and Creative Characters in counseling sessions with children and adolescents. The instructor will also provide guidelines for designing individual therapeutic metaphors in storytelling for specific clients. The practice of Bibliotherapy will also be discussed. Course Objectives Explain the rationale for using storytelling/metophoric techniques with clients in play therapy Explain what mutual storytelling is and how to do it Understand what Creative Characters is and how to do it Design therapeutic metaphors for specific client populations Use the client’s metaphor effectively Use a variety of techniques for metaphor delivery in play therapy INSTRUCTOR: Terry Kottman, Ph.D., NCC, LMHC, RPT-S Dr. Kottman developed Adlerian play therapy, a technique that combines the ideas and techniques of Individual Psychology and play therapy. She regularly presents workshops on play therapy, activity-based therapy and school counseling. Dr. Kottman is the author of Partners in Play: An Adlerian Approach to Play Therapy and Play Therapy: Basics and Beyond, co-author of Guidance and Counseling in the Elementary and Middle Schools, and co-editor (with Dr. Charles Schaefer) of Play Therapy in Action: A Casebook for Practitioners. Wednesday July 27, 2005 - 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
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