PLAY THERAPY - BRE214

Duration (approx) 100 hours

Qualification To obtain formal documentation the optional exam(s) must be completed which will incur an additional fee of £30. Alternatively, a letter of completion may be requested.

Play Therapy Training Course - Work with Children and Adults using Play Therapy

Play therapy is a therapeutic approach which can be used to help children express their thoughts and feelings through play. Although it is mostly used with children between the ages of 3 and 12 years, more recently it has also be used with older children and infants as well as special populations of adults such as people living with dementia, adults with emotional disturbances and those with developmental disabilities. As with other psychotherapies, the goal of play therapy is to help individuals attain improvement in psychological health and well-being.

This course is studied by distance learning and requires around 100 hours of study.

You can start the course at any time and work at your own pace.

It's easy to enrol...

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Plan A: 1 payment of £490.00

Plan B: 2 payments of £280.00

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Please note, choosing offline (USB stick) will attract a 5% surcharge on top of the course fee

Study Play Therapy Online

The course requires around 100 hours of study.

You can start at any time to suit you and work at your own pace.

Lesson Structure

There are 9 lessons in this course:

The Foundation for Using Play Therapy
Applications of Play and Play Therapy
Play Therapy for Anxiety and Depressive Disorders
Play Therapy for Behavioural Disorders
Play Therapy for Developmental Disorders
Play Therapy for Social & Family Problems
Play Therapy and Adult Populations
Related Specialised Creative Therapies
Play and Rehabilitation

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Aims

Explain the purpose for using play therapy, potential of what it might achieve, and determine situations where it is appropriate to use it as a therapeutic technique.
Explain the therapeutic play continuum, applications of play and play therapy, play therapy tools, advantages and issues arising in therapy.
Explain how play therapy can be used to help children with emotional disturbances such as depression and anxiety disorders.
Explain how play therapy can be used to help children with behavioural disorders such as conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and problems with anger and impulse control.
Explain how play therapy can be used to treat developmental disorders such as autism, intellectual disability and learning disorders.
Determine appropriate uses of play therapy for children suffering from social and family related problems such as grief and loss, crises such as divorce, and trauma-related issues.
Determine uses of play therapy to assist adult populations with specific emotional and psychological problems which can benefit from play.
Explain a range of different but closely related therapies including music, art, and drama therapy, and techniques used in these therapies which are incorporated into play therapy.
Explain how play can be used in occupational therapy and other contexts to help people manage or rehabilitate from physical and mental disabilities, and the role of science and technology.

Why Study Play Therapy?

Like other types of therapy, play therapy helps to reduce or eliminate negative or maladaptive behaviours whilst encouraging the use of positive or adaptive ones. Some of the benefits attributed to play therapy include: