In addition to courses offered by institutions of higher education and in our E-Learning Center, the Association for Play Therapy also accepts play therapy credit to satisfy its Registered Play Therapist (RPT) and Supervisor (RPT-S) credentialing criteria for trainings offered by the Approved Providers listed in this directory. Trainings offered by the latter may also be approved by other mental health disciplines for state licensure and certification purposes.
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Kate Amatruda, MFT & Phoenix Helm Simpson, MFT
1. Identify the concepts of sandplay and play therapy.
2. Know the difference between sandplay therapy and play therapy.
3. Understand the importance of a therapist doing his/her own depth process to be able to be more present for the client's process.
4. Understand the possibilities of ascertaining diagnosis and prognosis from the initial sandtray and play therapy session.
5. Understand how developmental levels are portrayed in sandplay and play therapy.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
888-777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 10
Other Credit: Y
Kate Amatruda, LMFT, CST-T
1. Learn effective disaster traits essential to mental health workers.
2. Understand common stress reactions to disaster in adults and children & how it appears in art, dreams & play therapy.
3. Understand key concepts of Psychological First Aid, & what concepts of adult & play therapy are applicable in a disaster.
4. Know differences between international and domestic disaster mental health & play therapy.
5. Learn about culturally appropriate play therapy interventions.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 4
Other Credit: Y
Charles Schaefer, PhD & Heidi Kaduson, PhD
Understand the difference between client-centered and experiential play therapy.
Acquire knowledge about the narrative storymaking intervention with children.
Be familiar with the scientific evidence for play therapy's effectiveness.
Learn the use of play therapy with sexually abused children.
Gain awareness of the therapeutic power of play with homeless children.
Be able to use Clay Play techniques in child therapy.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 9
Other Credit: Y
Linda Reddy PhD, Tara Hall PhD, Charles Schaefer
1. Should be able to understand the importance of basing play interventions on empirical evidence.
2. Will become familiar with the play interventions that have the most empirical support.
3. Will be able to identify which play treatments work best for specific disorders of children.
4. Will become knowledgeable about therapeutic play programs for hospitalized children.
5. Will become aware of a playful imagery technique for chronically ill children.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 9
Other Credit: Y
Lois Carey, MS
1. Learn about various expressive, play &/or creative arts methods for therapy with the traumatized clients.
2. Be able to cite empirical support for the effectiveness of these techniques.
3. Learn several practical expressive/creative/play techniques.
4. Be able to describe some different methods that can be used with children of all ages, including play therapy.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 7
Other Credit: Y
Charles Schaefer, PhD
1. Have a basic knowledge of the major theories of play and the therapeutic powers of play
2. Be able to cite empirical support for the effectiveness of play therapy
3. Learn a number of practical play therapy techniques
4. Be capable of describing some different types of play therapy used with children
5. Understand the value of play therapy for children vs. talk therapy
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 9
Other Credit: Y
Charles Schaefer, PhD
1. The reader will become aware of the current applications of Play Therapy across the world.
2. The reader will be able to develop play and narrative Story Stems
to assess children's mental health.
3. The reader will understand children's thoughts about their Play
Therapy experience.
4. The reader will become familiar with play techniques to engage
resistant children.
5. The reader will acquire knowledge about a storymaking intervention with adolescents.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 9
Other Credit: Y
Charles Schaefer, PhD & Loretta Gallo-Lopez
Learning Objectives
1. The reader will understand developmentally appropriate applications of Play Therapy with adolescents.
2. The reader will become familiar with adaptations of Play Therapy with special populations of adolescents.
3. The reader will learn a wide variety of play strategies for use with adolescents, including sand play and dramatic play.
4. The reader will be able to develop therapeutic metaphors for adolescents.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 9
Other Credit: Y
Kay Bradway, PhD, Barbara McCoard, MD
Learning Objectives:
1. The origins of sandplay from play therapy and Jungian analysis, and how it developed into its present form.
2. How sandplay therapy might be used in conjunction with play therapy and verbal therapy, including Jungian analysis.
3. The meaning and role of co-transference in sandplay and play therapy.
5. The role of interpretation in sandplay and play therapy.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 9
Other Credit: Y
Charles Schaefer, PhD & Heidi Kaduson, PhD
Understand the nature of short-term play therapy and its application across disorders and settings.
Be aware of both the clinical and cost-effectiveness of short term interventions.
Become knowledgeable about cognitive-behavior play therapy for anxiety disorders.
Learn the application of filial therapy with parents of adopted children.
Understand the effectiveness of parent-child interaction therapy (pcit) with disruptive children.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 9
Other Credit: Y
1. Learn to recognize the 'red flags', for assessment, detection, and signs of child abuse, including how to identify Posttraumatic play.
2. Learn about intervention strategies and treatment for child abuse, including play therapy and story telling techniques.
3. Clinicians will learn how child abuse impacts neurobiology and brain development.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 4
Other Credit: Y
Gita Dorthy Morena, PhD
1. Increase understanding of symbolic language and how it is used therapeutically.
2. Develop skills to use The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in play therapy and Sandplay.
3. Understand the value of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and how its symbols are used in psychotherapy and play therapy.
4. Examine the emphasis of feminine values in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and show how this influences psychological development and healing.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 3
Other Credit: Y
Rise VanFleet, PhD, LP, RPT-S
Participants will:
Meet the Supervision Training requirement of APT.
Identify your own professional development needs.
Handle common legal and ethical dilemmas.
Explain risk management in supervision and how to reduce liability.
Use an interactive model of supervision which involves the supervisee in the process.
Help supervisees create their own professional development plans.
Family Enhancement & Play Therapy Center
APT Approved Provider Number: 95-014
(717) 249-4707
E‑mail: Risevanfleet@aol.com
Play Therapy Hours: 6
Other Credit: Y
Rise VanFleet, PhD, LP, RPT-S
Participants will...
Describe how CCPT is different from more directive types of play therapy.
Use the 4 primary skills involved in CCPT.
Establish a playroom suited for CCPT.
Identify possible play themes.
Work with parents in conjunction with CCPT.
Make decisions during CCPT consistent with basic principles.
Family Enhancement & Play Therapy Center
APT Approved Provider Number: 95-014
(717) 249-4707
E‑mail: Risevanfleet@aol.com
Play Therapy Hours: 4
Other Credit: Y
Rise VanFleet, PhD, LP, RPT-S
Participants will...
Describe the uses and advantages of Filial Therapy.
Understand the sequence of FT.
Describe how the parents are trained during the FT process.
Identify how FT strengthens the parent-child relationship.
Encourage feedback to parents.
Involve parents fully as partners.
Think and apply play therapy from a family systems point of view.
See how FT can be used to treat a wide range of problems.
Identify additional training needed to conduct FT.
Family Enhancement & Play Therapy Center
APT Approved Provider Number: 95-014
(717) 249-4707
E‑mail: Risevanfleet@aol.com
Play Therapy Hours: 6-9
Other Credit: Y
Rise VanFleet, PhD, LP, RPT-S
Participants will...
Identify key sources of parent resistance to play therapy.
Explore their own attitudes about resistance and how they impact therapist behavior and client reactions.
Consider resistance a natural part of the change process.
Use a variety of specific skills to engage parents in the process of play therapy.
Use a variety of skills to overcome parent resistance.
Identify and overcome various types of resistant behaviors.
Family Enhancement & Play Therapy Center
APT Approved Provider Number: 95-014
(717) 249-4707
E‑mail: Risevanfleet@aol.com
Play Therapy Hours: 4
Other Credit: Y
Heidi Kaduson, PhD, RPT-S
Learning Objectives:
ADHD
1. Students will be able to understand how ADHD affects children in their daily lives.
2. Students will be able to focus on the multi-modal treatment of ADHD, including the individual treatment in play.
3. Students will learn how to enhance verbalization for children with ADHD.
4. Play therapy techniques will be available to use with children in home, school or clinic setting.
Family Enhancement & Play Therapy Center
APT Approved Provider Number: 95-014
(717) 249-4707
E‑mail: Risevanfleet@aol.com
Play Therapy Hours: 5
Other Credit: Y
Heidi Kaduson, PhD, RPT-S
Students will learn:
* The different disorders on the Autistic Spectrum, and how each affects the child's perceptions.
* How to follow the lead of a child with Pervasive Developmental Disorder or Asperger's Syndrome.
* Learn play therapy techniques to use with higher functioning children.
* Learn to teach play to lower functioning children through the developmental stages of play.
* Learn the red flags of children who might be on the Spectrum, and how to intervene.
Family Enhancement & Play Therapy Center
APT Approved Provider Number: 95-014
(717) 249-4707
E‑mail: Risevanfleet@aol.com
Play Therapy Hours: 4
Other Credit: Y
Audio Programs & Tests
Book Tests
Listen to audio programs by prominent play therapists and submit completed tests for credit.
Or submit completed tests based upon publications available in online APT bookstore.
Association for Play Therapy
APT Approved Provider Number: 95-100
(559) 252-2278 x 1
E‑mail: info@a4pt.org
Play Therapy Hours: varies
Other Credit: Y
Sandra Frick-Helms
1.) Watch videotaped seminar sessions
2.) Read & Respond to Play Therapy Literature.
3.) Complete assignments designed to increase play therapy knowledge and skills.
Sandra Frick-Helms, PhD, RPT-S
APT Approved Provider Number: 98-042
(803) 798-1961
E‑mail: sfh1961@mindspring.com
Play Therapy Hours: 30
Other Credit: N
Barbara Turner, PhD, RPT-S
This is the first of a three part series introducing the Jungian sandplay therapy method. This course features an overview of the procedures in Jungian sandplay. This class introduces Dora M. Kalff's theoretical concepts of the how sandplay works to heal and transform. This is a read and test course.
Barbara Turner
APT Approved Provider Number: 00-079
(707) 894-4474
E‑mail: publisher@temenospress.com
Play Therapy Hours: 6
Other Credit: Y
Barbara Turner, PhD, RPT-S
This course draws from the work of Estelle L. Weinrib, examining therapist procedures during sandplay and the necessary tools and equipment for the practice of sandplay.
Barbara Turner
APT Approved Provider Number: 00-079
(707) 894-4474
E‑mail: publisher@temenospress.com
Play Therapy Hours: 7
Other Credit: Y
Barbara Turner, PhD, RPT-S
This course explores how sandplay therapy creates the conditions necessary for healing of wounds suffered in early development. It introduces the concepts of masculine and feminine energies in the domain of play and healing.
This course introduces the tools necessary to track the processes healing & development in sandplay casework, the synchronistic qualities of sandplay & the role of the transpersonal dimensions in this therapeutic medium.
Barbara Turner
APT Approved Provider Number: 00-079
(707) 894-4474
E‑mail: publisher@temenospress.com
Play Therapy Hours: 7
Other Credit: Y
Barbara Turner, PhD, RPT-S
The second of the three-part series, continues the exploration of Jungian personality theory as a tool for understanding and describing the psyche's movements in sandplay. Building upon the material from Course 301, this class explores the role of the four functions, the persona, the shadow and the archetypes in the sandplay therapy process. Examples are drawn from the sandplay case vignettes.
Barbara Turner
APT Approved Provider Number: 00-079
(707) 894-4474
E‑mail: publisher@temenospress.com
Play Therapy Hours: 10
Other Credit: Y
Barbara Turner, PhD, RPT-S
This course continues the study of the application of Jung's personality theory to the sandplay therapy process. Building upon the material from Course 301 and 302, this class explores the dynamics of the psyche's movements in healing and transformation, with particular focus on the processes of individuation, differentiation, compensation and adaptation.
Barbara Turner
APT Approved Provider Number: 00-079
(707) 894-4474
E‑mail: publisher@temenospress.com
Play Therapy Hours: 10
Other Credit: Y
Barbara Turner, PhD, RPT-S
This course returns us to the roots of Jungian Sandplay therapy in Margaret Lowenfeld's early twentieth century innovations in the field of child psychotherapy. We explore the core value of play in development and therapeutic change through the reading H.G. Wells' book, Floor Games, the original text that inspired Lowenfelds World Techniques and subsequently Dora Kalff's application of miniature worlds in Jungian child treatment.
Barbara Turner
APT Approved Provider Number: 00-079
(707) 894-4474
E‑mail: publisher@temenospress.com
Play Therapy Hours: 6
Other Credit: Y
Barbara Turner, PhD, RPT-S
This course explores the development of miniature worlds for therapeutic purposes, beginning with Margaret Lowenfeld's World Technique and Dora Kalff's revision of this method in Jungian sandplay therapy.
Barbara Turner
APT Approved Provider Number: 00-079
(707) 894-4474
E‑mail: publisher@temenospress.com
Play Therapy Hours: 8
Other Credit: Y
Denise Filley MA
Video Classes
KC Play Therapy Institute
APT Approved Provider Number: 99-067
(913) 406-3059
E‑mail: denise@kcplay.com
Play Therapy Hours: 15
Other Credit: N
Denise Filley
Video Classes
KC Play Therapy Institute
APT Approved Provider Number: 99-067
(913) 406-3059
E‑mail: denise@kcplay.com
Play Therapy Hours: 15
Other Credit: N
Denise Filley
Video classes
KC Play Therapy Institute
APT Approved Provider Number: 99-067
(913) 406-3059
E‑mail: denise@kcplay.com
Play Therapy Hours: 15
Other Credit: N
Denise Filley
Video Classes
KC Play Therapy Institute
APT Approved Provider Number: 99-067
(913) 406-3059
E‑mail: denise@kcplay.com
Play Therapy Hours: 15
Other Credit: N
Denise Filley
Video Classes
KC Play Therapy Institute
APT Approved Provider Number: 99-067
(913) 406-3059
E‑mail: denise@kcplay.com
Play Therapy Hours: 15
Other Credit: N
Denise Filley
Video Classes
KC Play Therapy Institute
APT Approved Provider Number: 99-067
(913) 406-3059
E‑mail: denise@kcplay.com
Play Therapy Hours: 15
Other Credit: N
Gisela Schubach De Domenico, PhD, RPT-S
A phenomenological journey introducing Sandtray-Worldplay, Lowenfeld Method; Kalff Method; Exploring Human Consciousness, Healing, Symbolic Reality; Psychopathology & Contra-indications; the Environment, Sandtrays(sizes and shapes), Sand, Images; Elemental & Image Play; Multicultural Issues; Phases of the Prototypal Sandtray-Worldplay Sessions Record Form; Types of Worlds; Indivivduals & Group Sandplay; Thirty experiential exercises
Vision Quest
APT Approved Provider Number: 95-018
(510) 530-1383
E‑mail: gisela.dnai@rcn.com
Play Therapy Hours: 14
Other Credit: N
Charles Schaefer, PhD, RPT-S
Child Treatment: The Therapeutic Powers of Play Course, based upon the book, delves deeply into the theoretical & practical aspects of play therapy with children. Looking at a wide variety of play therapy techniques & child populations, this book will expand the knowledge base of play therapists as well as verbally-based therapists looking for ways to deepen their work with children.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 9
Other Credit: Y
Barbara A. Turner, PhD, RPT-S
Jung's personality theory provides a language for understanding the transformation that occurs during play in sandplay. Familiarity with the theory allows the sandplay therapist to engage in a meaningful and knowledgeable conscious relationship with the subtler, non-rational image language of sandplay. This is the first of a four-part series.
Barbara Turner
APT Approved Provider Number: 00-079
(707) 894-4474
E‑mail: publisher@temenospress.com
Play Therapy Hours: 10
Other Credit: Y
Kate Amatruda, LMFT, CST-T
Children and adolescents with bipolar disorder offer a compelling insight into biochemistry for the clinician. This online course looks at differential diagnosis, medication, heredity, the impact on the family, and treatment, including play therapy techniques. Includes extensive links.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 5
Other Credit: Y
Kate Amatruda, LMFT, CST-T
Explores the cases of four clients with acute and terminal illnesses, two adults and two children, treated with the modalities of play therapy and sandplay therapy. Includes brief in-hospital treatment, healing symbols, the process of the psyche, with extensive internet links integrated into the course material.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 10
Other Credit: Y
Kate Amatruda, LMFT, CST-T
1.) Looks at trauma treatment, including art, play and sandplay therapy techniques.
2.) Immediately after the traumatic event.
3.) How to assess for impact.
4.) After the disaster.
5.) An elemental model of treatment (play therapy and sandplay)
6.) Psychopharmacology
7.) Spirit (resilience, therapist self care)
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 5
Other Credit: Y
Charles Schaefer, PhD, RPT-S
Based upon the luminous book which delves deeply into the theoretical and practical aspects of play therapy with adults and a wide variety of play therapy techniques and adult populations, this program opens doors in the traditional ideas of play, play therapy & who will benefit from playing.
ABED Continuing Education
APT Approved Provider Number: 02-117
(888) 777-3773
E‑mail: info@psychceu.com
Play Therapy Hours: 9
Other Credit: Y
