Play Therapy in Schools

This course focuses on providing play therapy services at school sites and examines the benefits as well as the many challenges in working in school settings. It will include: learning how to form collaborative relationships with school principals, developing agreements for protocols and referral procedures, and identifying a space/location to provide play therapy sessions and activities at school sites. Identification of students in need of mental health services and parent consent and confidentiality will be reviewed. Additionally, effective strategies for engaging teachers and parents in the play therapy process, play therapy methods to strengthen attachment in the teacher-child dyad, managing mandated reporting, crisis intervention, and working with school counselors and school psychologists will be taught.

Note: Applies toward the Certificate in Play Therapy. While the Department of Psychiatry is aware of the research on the efficacy of play therapy*, it cannot specifically endorse each play therapy intervention included in each class in the play therapy certificate program. * http://www.a4pt.org/?page=Research

Course Number: PSY-40398
Credit: 0.50 unit(s)

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11/2/2024 - 11/2/2024

$195

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• SECTION ID:

  184446

• CLASS TYPE:

  Synchronous web-based class meetings that are scheduled to meet online at published times (time/date).

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Dooling, Sarah

  Sarah Dooling graduated from the San Diego State Graduate School of Social Work in 2008. She is currently a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor. She is also a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Association for Play Therapy (APT). Additionally, she holds a clinical license (LICSW) in the state of Massachusetts. In addition to maintaining a private practice, she has the privilege of working as a school-based clinician for a local school district. Working in both the school and therapeutic setting has provided her with opportunities to work closely with children, teachers and families for the last ten years.  

• TEXTBOOKS:

  No information available at this time.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 11/2/2024.
  

• NOTE:

DATE	DAY	START	END	LOCATION
11/2/2024	Sat	9:00 a.m.	3:00 p.m.