7.5 CPD hours

Includes 6x recorded sessions for 75mins each, at the equivalent of just $66 per session

Role plays by Katherine Olejniczak as therapist, demonstrating therapeutic skills

Please note: These are recordings of live workshops.

Access to the recordings until 31 January, 2025

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Following on from our highly popular workshops focussed on working with parents/caregivers – “Be My Co-Therapist” and “Working with Parent Mental Health Presentations” – this new and unique PD series brings to life key principles and concepts covered.

This is your opportunity to be a “fly on the wall” and observe Katherine at work as she demonstrates therapeutic skills in practice!T

hrough in-depth role plays with Katherine as therapist, we will explore ways of working sensitively with parents/caregivers in common scenarios that arise in our child and play therapy practice.

Topics & Key learning objectives:

1)  Setting up parent/caregiver expectations of your service and the therapy process

2)  Working sensitively with parent/caregiver own difficult experiences during initial assessment session (e.g. Postnatal Depression, guilt, grief and loss)

3)  Developing ad sequencing therapeutic goals – having hard conversations and identifying shared goals when parent/caregiver goals may be different to what the therapist recommends

4)  Working sensitively with parent/caregiver mental health presentations during the course of therapy (e.g. parental anxiety, trauma)

5)  Building parental reflective functioning

6)  Open session – Katherine role plays your hot topics

Our Be My Co-Therapist™ approach to child and play therapy is based in our understanding that children develop and heal in the context of their attachment relationships, and the most effective change occurs for children when their important adults are involved in the change process. As child therapists, we inevitably also engage with children’s parents/caregivers.  In doing so, we work with parents/caregivers’ own vulnerabilities and challenges.  Yet many child therapists feel they lack confidence in this important area of their work.  If this is you, this Skills in Practice series is for you!

Who should attend?

This workshop is essential for all mental health clinicians working with children – psychologists, play therapists, counsellors, social workers, occupational therapists etc. It is also suitable for those working more broadly with children/parents/families across family and community services, Child Safety Services and OoHC sectors (e.g. case managers, foster care workers).

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REGISTRATION DETAILS

To register, click on the REGISTER button below and complete the participant registration details. Then click on the orange CART at the top right of your screen and follow the prompts for payment. Registration is confirmed on payment and you will receive a confirmation email and Tax Invoice.

Where an Invoice is required for payment to be made by an employer, please make contact directly via email so that this can be arranged: admin@psychologyandplay.com.au

Upon purchase, you will receive a secure link to the PDF file, lasting 24 hours after the first download. Please download this within 24 hours. The links to the workshop recording and workshop materials will be in this PDF.

Access to workshop documents (e.g. PowerPoint presentation and other handouts) will be provided via Dropbox.

You will have access to the workshop recording until 31 October, 2024.

By registering for this workshop, you agree to the terms and conditions which can be found at: Terms and Conditions