In this section
Other Trainings
Further Trainings
Other trainings suitable include Play Therapy
Play Therapy helps children understand muddled feelings and upsetting events that they haven't had the chance to sort out properly. Rather than having to explain what is troubling them, as adult therapy usually expects, children use play to communicate at their own level and at their own pace, without feeling interrogated or threatened.
Play Therapy helps children in a variety of ways. Children receive emotional support and can learn to understand more about their own feelings and thoughts. Sometimes they may re-enact or play out traumatic or difficult life experiences in order to make sense of their past and cope better with their future. Children may also learn to manage relationships and conflicts in more appropriate ways.
The outcomes of Play Therapy may be general e.g. a reduction in anxiety and raised self-esteem, or more specific such as a change in behaviour and improved relations with family and friends.
Please contact
Testimonial
Eriko Suwa (2006/2007 PDP Graduate)
There are few Play therapy training courses (MA/Diploma course) which are accredited by British Association of Play Therapist (BAPT). The course I took is one of them. You had better have experience working with children, and you have to explain why you want be a play therapist based on such experiences. In the interview, I was asked to introduce myself with toys and express and explain my feeling with art work very briefly.
In the course, after studying basic theory of Play Therapy and finishing child observation, students have to have some clinical cases in their placements. Most of the students, including me, worked at primary schools, nurseries, or councils. Some students could find hospitals or CAMHS as their placements. Since we had individual placements and clinical supervisors, training progressed at an individual-basis. Finishing 5 clinical cases and completing all the criteria BAPT made, we were accredited as Play Therapists.
I am working with kids as a counselor and clinical psychologist in Japan now. At the same time, I am taking a PhD course and researching child-mother relationship of Autism children.
