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Play Therapy and Beyond: Treatment Techniques and Strategies
By: Paul White
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Professionals in every child-centered discipline across our country agree that as the years have passed, children are finding themselves in more complex situations. Children are being identified with more severe diagnoses at an earlier age, and possess less coping mechanisms. Children are identified in our schools and offices with ever-increasing complex or multiple psychiatric disorders. They find themselves in unprecedented difficult home and family circumstances. They have a scope of pathologies and life situations that challenge the very therapeutic capacity of our ability to treat. More of these children are entering their pre-adolescence with unresolved dilemmas and ongoing crises, having acquired maladaptive behaviors and carrying one or more diagnoses, and are experiencing repeated failure in home, school and community. Our counseling agencies and systems are constantly seeking effective counseling responses and treatment modalities for these children. Most counselors use some form of play therapy with children and pre-teens; however, many have decided that child-directed play therapy alone is not enough to reach, treat and resolve the difficult issues facing children today. Experienced counselors have discovered that a diverse range of methods and modalities are the treatment of choice with children. Some have learned to merge the effectiveness of the play therapy environment with traditional talk therapies in response to the variety of childhood dilemmas and situations.

This seminar combines the effectiveness of the play therapy environment with a variety of clinical techniques proven and effective with thousands of children. Learn from a counselor/teacher who has treated these difficult children for over three decades. His unique techniques are grounded in sound clinical theory and have been gathered through face-to-face interaction. Mr. White will present over two dozen learn today/use tomorrow techniques and strategies. He will expertly teach how to effectively respond to Reactive Attachment Disorder, Sex Abuse, Mood Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders and other disorders of our time.

Participants will also learn how to reduce a child's fears of counseling, establish the therapeutic relationship and strengthen the child/counselor connection throughout the treatment process. Mr. White will demonstrate effect responses to aggression, self-esteem enhancement and reducing the effects of depression. He will teach effective problem resolution skills, ways to help resistant children and many other child-friendly counseling techniques. Methods in all phases of child treatment will be covered. Participants will leave this seminar prepared to be more effective with their very next client and with techniques that can be used every day for the remainder of their professional career.

  • Learn two dozen unique tools and techniques in four major clinical categories: relationships, behavior, feelings and thinking
  • Learn methods to reach and teach children by impacting how they solve problems and make decisions
  • Learn to more effectively engage difficult diagnosis clients such as ODD, Bipolar, ADHD, and Reactive Attachment Disorder
  • Develop strategies and methods for success with hard-to-reach children in short- or long-term therapy inpatient or outpatient environments
  • Acquire a working knowledge of Play Therapy and clinical counseling
  • Add to your existing toolbox of counseling skills and techniques
  • Learn methods to connect your treatment goals with a child's play needs
  • Learn over two dozen original strategies and techniques to use in Play Therapy
  • Learn to be more effective with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disordered, Oppositional Defiant Disordered, Depressed, Reactive Attachment Disordered, Obsessive-Compulsive and other hard-to-reach children
  • Learn unprecedented methods of helping children cope with aggression, decision making and problem solving
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • School Social Workers
  • Social Workers
  • Play Therapists
  • Licensed Clinical Counselors
  • School Guidance Counselors
  • School Psychologists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Art Therapists
  • Child and Family Counselors
  • Child Welfare
  • Case Workers
  • Psychiatric Nurses
  • Hospital Pediatric Counselors
  • Hospice Counselors
  • Adoption Counselors
Paul R. White, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker with over 34 years of experience counseling children. He is an internationally recognized therapist, consultant and author. Since 1983, he has had a full-time private practice counseling children and families in Rockford, Illinois. In addition to his individual, group and family therapy, Mr. White has consulted and supervised with public and private agencies, schools and residential settings. He is uniquely qualified to teach therapy with children to his peers. Mr. White began his career with children in 1970 as a supervisor of five teams of VISTA Volunteers on three southwest Native American reservations. His Tulane University graduate courses, field placements and thesis research were directed at his primary professional goal, face-to-face interaction with children. Following graduate school in 1972, he worked as a front-line Case Worker with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, a direct service counselor with the Illinois Department of Mental Health and University of Illinois Division of Specialized Care for Children.

During his many years of direct work with children, he has developed numerous unique aids and techniques that assisted him in teaching children to cope with stress, express feelings and to solve problems. Two of these have found their way into publication. The first is a disk and manual for group therapists' entitled Sebastian and the Anger Dial. The second is his book, CLAYtherapy: A Manual of Therapeutic Applications of Clay with Children. Recently, in June 2004, he presented a paper on CLAYtherapy to the World Congress of Child Play Therapy and Child Psychotherapy in London, England.

Mr. White provides seminars on Play Therapy, clinical techniques, anger and other children's issues across the country. He welcomes suggestions or questions about his seminars and books and their applications in child-centered environments. Please visit his website at: www.PlaytherapyCLAY.com.

"This has been, by far, the best and most informative seminar I have ever attended! I literally learned new, innovative techniques every 2-3 minutes. Paul White changed the way I practice therapy." - Abrina Schnurman-Crook, PhD, CPC , Roanoke, Virginia

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