Family Psychological Services, P.C. - Saturday EPT Webinar Series

This special Saturday morning EPT series will explore the following topics in detail. You may register for any and all sessions.

Early registration for each session is $80.00, and regular registration is $95.00.
There is a special price for attending all 10 session, only $650.00.

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Webinar Description: Children express their internal emotional world through metaphor. This form of communication allows children to express meanings beyond their developmental capacity to express language. Once the therapist understands the meanings being expressed, the therapist encounters a deeper relationship with the child. Accepting this level of expression enhances the therapeutic process for the child client.

To understand how children can communicate through the use of metaphor.

To demonstrate how children use child-created metaphors as self-expression in play therapy.

To provide the play therapist information on how children utilize their metaphorical process in play dynamics.

Observe how metaphorical expressions allow a child to progress in play therapy.

For continuing education, a quiz and an evaluation will follow each webinar. Early registration discount ends February 11. Registration closes February 23.

Webinar Description: Children express dynamics of dissociative process in play. This is their way of expressing the severity of the trauma they endured. This will be identified on the dissociative continuum.
It is important for the play therapist to be attentive to these expressions and their meanings to the distressed child. This workshop will help the play therapist become more sensitive and responsive to the levels of this process as part of the play dynamics.

To illustrate the occurrence of dissociative processes as children confront trauma in play therapy.

To provide the play therapist with a working understanding of how children express dissociative processes in their play dynamics.

To provide the play therapist with direct examples of dissociative processes in play therapy.

For continuing education, a quiz and an evaluation will follow each webinar. Early registration discount ends March 10. Registration closes March 22.

Webinar Description: Children use toys as personalized symbols of their internal world. Toys become representative of the meanings that exist in children’s lives. This workshop will review the significance of common toys used by children in their play therapy process. The hidden meaning of toys as part of trauma expression will be explained and demonstrated.

To convey the meanings of toys that children use in non-directive, self-expressive play process.

To show how children personalize their emotional world in the toys they select in play therapy.

Teach how toys are part of trauma expressions for children who have endured trauma situations.

For continuing education, a quiz and an evaluation will follow each webinar. Early registration discount ends April 14. Registration closes April 26.

Webinar Description: Children use a variety of personalized symbols to express their internal worlds. Children use roles in dramatic play to convey relationships that represent people who have influenced them either positively or negatively. This workshop will review the significance of common environments that symbolize predicaments in the child’s play process. Certain animals possess characteristics that children identify with in their play process either as predators or supporters. The meaning of these aspects of children’s play will be discussed as it relates to trauma expressions.

To convey the meanings of roles, environments, and animals that children use in non-directive, self-expressive forms of play therapy.

To show how children personalize their emotional world with metaphorical resources that are associated with events in their lives.

Teach how roles, environments, and animals are part of trauma expressions for children who have endured trauma situations.

For continuing education, a quiz and an evaluation will follow each webinar. Early registration discount ends May 5. Registration closes May 17.

Webinar Description: Building a significant therapeutic relationship with a child is a critical process in Experiential Play Therapy. The Testing-for-Protection process establishes that trusting relationship. The therapist must provide the child with a secure relationship as the child enters the dark side of their pain or trauma. This leads to the Dependency stage of EPT, where the child re-enters the experience of their trauma. These two stages are the critical working stages of the EPT model of play therapy.

Discuss and demonstrate the critical process of testing the therapist in order to establish trust by the child client.

Discuss and demonstrate the dynamics that compose the Dependency or “working” stage of EPT.

Discuss and demonstrate the process of “leveling” the power of the fear object or perpetrator in EPT.

For continuing education, a quiz and an evaluation will follow each webinar. Early registration discount ends June 9. Registration closes June 21.

Webinar Description: This workshop will focus on the effects of Borderline personality dynamics on the development of the child. Characteristics of this parenting style will be discussed and considerations for the play therapist interacting with these parents will be examined. This style of parenting has intense consequences for young children who have to adjust to distorted variables in relationships that disrupt an appropriate sense of identity.

To understand the dynamics of the Borderline relationship as it affects the child’s world view.

To explain the interactive struggle expressed by a child of a Borderline parent in a search for identity.

Review the professional and interactive dynamics in coordinating with this parent when working with their child in play therapy.

For continuing education, a quiz and an evaluation will follow each webinar. Early registration discount ends July 14. Registration closes July 26.

Webinar Description: This workshop will deal with the emotional expressions that children focus toward the (sand bottom) bop bag toy. Most expressions released toward this item are usually aggressive in nature. The art of the therapeutic intervention with this toy is to externalize pent up feelings that are usually expressed inappropriately by children. This toy is one of the most misunderstood toys in play therapy. Knowing how to utilize the benefits of this toy can be an asset to the play therapist.

Understand the value of the bop bag as a tool of expression and tension dissipation in play therapy.

To discuss the most therapeutic ways of using the bop bag to facilitative emotional expression.

To give the play therapist a repertoire of responses that supports the child’s discharge of anger.

For continuing education, a quiz and an evaluation will follow each webinar. Early registration discount ends August 11. Registration closes August 23.

Webinar Description: This workshop will focus on the themes and dynamics of children who have endured domestic violence. Play expressions have several unique characteristics that identify the disturbing emotional impact of this process on young children. It is necessary for the play therapist to be aware of these expressions in order to track and intervene in the child’s best interest.

To discuss and demonstrate the style of expression the young child uses to convey the impact of domestic violence on their perceptions and functioning.

To understand the distorted dynamics and fears domestic violence creates for young children.

To help the child dissipate this trauma experience so that the effects of this process do not continue into the child’s adult life and their ability to parent.

For continuing education, a quiz and an evaluation will follow each webinar. Early registration discount ends September 15. Registration closes September 27.

Webinar Description : Children who have experienced traumatic events carry their trauma in somatic ways that effects internal functioning as well as social interactions. This workshop will provide awareness of how children express the internal pain of their trauma. The process of discharging the internal energy that causes intense perceptual conflicts will be discussed and demonstrated.

Explain and demonstrate the characteristics of trauma play when children re-enter their trauma experience.

To explain and demonstrate the Norton’s 4S’s of Trauma Expression and Healing that release trauma energy that has been stored in the body.

Assist the play therapist to be more sensitive to the meaning of the trauma experience and discharge.

For continuing education, a quiz and an evaluation will follow each webinar. Early registration discount ends October 13. Registration closes October 25.

Don't miss any topic of this exciting EPT series. Get all 10 sessions for a single reduced price and a single registration. Only $650.00 for the entire series.

To recieve continuing education credit for each topic, participant must complete the quiz and evaluation which follows each session in the series.

APT continuing education provider #99-075, NASW provider #886577564-8993, NBCC provider # 6526, and PTI provider.

The information and material in this webinar series is copyrighted. Participants agree not to record or distribute any part of the presentation. Each participant will have a unique and confidential password protected login. Do not share your password with other people.