The Play Therapy Training Institute, Inc.

Seminar #292
PLAY THERAPY GOES TO SCHOOL

Instructor: Carol Mader, M.Ed., NCC, RPT-S
Thursday July 27, 2006 - 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

School counselors are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of using play therapy techniques and strategies in public and non-public schools alike. Attending this workshop will help you with ideas for overcoming obstacles that counselors face in setting up a playroom and informing teachers, parents and administrators about play counseling. You will find out how play therapy is used for students referred to Instructional Support Teams for life skills issues. You will participate in hands-on activities that support students who are “complainers, window shoppers and customers” to the counselors office. Videotaped segments of successful strategies will be presented. The purpose of this workshop is to help the school counselor leave with ideas for making play therapy part of their comprehensive school program.

Course Objectives

Relate theories of Adlerian and Child-Centered Play Therapies to practice in a school setting

Brainstorm information for establishing a play counseling room in a K-8 school building

Develop guidelines for in-service of school staff on a Comprehensive School

Counseling Program including play counseling

Practice play tactics for use in each of the four phases of counseling; (1) building an egalitarian relationship, (2) lifestyle exploration, (3) helping client gain insight and (4) reeducation or reorientation Use encouragement statements and mutual respect, with peers through out the day, consistent with Adlerian theory

INSTRUCTOR: Carol Mader, M.Ed., NCC, RPT-S, is a non-public school counselor for the Capital Area Intermediate Unit 15 in Pennsylvania.  She has been using play therapy techniques in public and non-public school settings for 10 years.  Mrs. Mader has served as Secretary and Membership Chairperson for the Pennsylvania Association for Play Therapy.  She was published in Short Term Play Therapy For Children, edited by Heidi Gerard Kaduson and Charles E. Schaefer.  She established her first play counseling room using donations from school staff for toys and shared space with the school post office.     

Thrusday July 27, 2006 - 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.