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Center for Play Therapy - At the University of North Texas

Workshop information for 2010 will be updated soon!!

Friday, October 23, 2009 (8:30 am -4:30 pm)

Adlerian Play Therapy: A Systemic and Developmental Approach to Working with School-Aged Children

Terry Kottman, Ph.D., NCC, RPT-S, LMHC

          In this fun, experiential workshop, Terry Kottman, the "inventor" of Adlerian play therapy, will introduce you to several unique ways that Adlerians conceptualize children and the adults around them. You will learn how to recognize children’s goals of misbehavior and design therapeutic strategies to help shift those goals to more positive goals. You will learn how to "diagnose" which Crucial Cs are assets for children and the adults in their lives and which of the Crucial Cs present a challenge, along with ways to foster Crucial Cs. You will learn to recognize which personality priorities children, parents, and teachers manifest and ways to help optimize their expression of those personality priorities. You will practice methods for custom-designing your interaction with parents and teachers in order to enlist their enthusiastic support in using practical, down-to-earth strategies for helping children.

 

Attendees will be able to:

1. Recognize children’s goals of misbehavior and design therapeutic strategies to help shift those goals to more constructive ones.

2. Recognize which Crucial Cs (courage, connect, capable, count) are clients’ strengths and which Crucial Cs are challenges and design therapeutic strategies to foster those Crucial Cs that need encouragement (in children, parents, and teachers).

3. Recognize clients’ personality priorities and design therapeutic strategies to move clients to a more constructive expression of their personality priorities (in children, parents, and teachers).

3. Use metacommunication to help clients understand goals of misbehavior, Crucial Cs, and personality priorities and to make shifts in their thinking, feeling, and behaving connected to these factors.

4. Encourage "buy in" from parents and teachers by custom-designing consultation using the adults’ Crucial Cs and personality priorities.

5. Improve parents’ and teachers’ ability to positively interact with children by teaching them to understand goals of misbehavior, Crucial Cs, and personality priorities.

Dr. Kottman is a dynamic speaker whose enthusiasm for her work with children is evident. Come prepared to learn and to have fun!