The Play Therapy Training Institute, Inc.

#152 Winter Seminar

 

 

Seminar #152
 PLAY THERAPY FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN

Instructor: Donna Cangelosi, Psy.D., RPT-S
Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 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.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how children at various developmental stages perceive, understand, and react to losses and separations
2. Understand how children go through the mourning process and how to assess.
3. Use assessment procedures for bereaved children.
4. Distinguish between normal and disabling grief
5. Determine factors that affect the adjustment for children following losses and separations (resulting from death, illness or hospitalization of a loved one, or relocation).
6. Use play techniques and materials that are effective for treating grieving children.

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.

Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

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