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"We
are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply
engrossed in anything than when we are playing". Charles Schaefer |
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Play
Therapy with Adults |
APT, CA BBS, FL, NAADAC, NBCC, TX SBEPC, TXBSWE
This course meets the qualifications for 9 hours
of continuing education
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We are pleased and honored to offer a compelling course by Charles E. Schaefer (Editor), a renowned play therapist, and child and adult therapist. Play
Therapy with Adults Please join us in this 9 unit course. |
| This course consists of a post-test based upon reading the text. There is no online material to read. After you pass the post-test, you may print out your own certificate. |
"Toboggan" Henri Matisse
"Play
is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold."
Joseph Chilton Pearce |
Book Description
Learn how to incorporate adult play therapy into your practice with this easy-to-use
guide.
In the Western world there has been a widening belief that play is not a trivial
or childish pursuit but rather a prime pillar of mental health, along with
love and work. Play Therapy with Adults presents original chapters
written by a collection of international experts who examine the diverse approaches
and clinical strategies available for successfully incorporating play therapy
into adult-client sessions.
This timely guide covers healing through the use of a variety of play therapy
techniques and methods. Various client groups and treatment
settings are given special attention, including working with adolescents,
the elderly, couples, individuals with dementia, and clients in group therapy.
Material is organized into four sections for easy reference:
* Dramatic role play
* Therapeutic humor
* Sand play and doll play
* Play groups, hypnoplay, and client-centered play
Play Therapy with Adults is a valuable book for psychologists,
therapists, social workers, and counselors interested in helping clients explore
themselves through playful activities. (courtesy:Wiley.com)
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"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden;
heaven is a playground." G. K. Chesterton |
Icarus by Matisse
This course meets the qualifications for 9 hours of continuing education
maintains responsibility for the program. |
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| Learning Objectives Clinicians will be able to:
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"Every
time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future
of the human race." H. G. Wells |
Jazz Icarus, Matisse
"We
don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop
playing." George Bernard Shaw |
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Table
of Contents
Preface.
Contributors.
1. Introduction: The Healing Potential of Adults
at Play (Dottie Ward-Wimmer).
PART I DRAMATIC ROLE PLAY.
2. Drama Therapy with Adults (Robert J. Landy).
3. Psychodrama (Adam Blatner).
4. Improvisational Play in Couples Therapy (Daniel J. Wiener and David Cantor).
5. Developmental Transformations in Group Therapy with the Elderly (David
Read Johnson, Ann Smith, and Miller James).
PART II THERAPEUTIC HUMOR.
6. Integrating Humor into Psychotherapy (Steven M. Sultanoff).
7. Humor as a Moderator of Life Stress in Adults (Herbert M. Lefcourt).
8. Therapeutic Humor with the Depressed and Suicidal Elderly (Joseph Richman).
PART III SANDPLAY/DOLL PLAY.
9. Using Sandplay in Therapy with Adults (Rie Rogers Mitchell and Harriet
S. Friedman).
10. Somatic Consciousness in Adult Sandplay Therapy (Kate Amatruda).
11. Play Therapy for Individuals with Dementia (Kathleen S. Mayers).
12. Using Therapeutic Dolls with Psychogeriatric Patients (Mally Ehrenfeld).
PART IV PLAY GROUPS/HYPNO-PLAY/CLIENT-CENTERED PLAY.
13. Adult Group Play Therapy (Christine Caldwell).
14. Using Games with Adults in a Play Therapy Group Setting (Jennifer Kendall).
15. Hypno-Play Therapy (Marian Kaplun Shapiro).
16. Play Therapy for Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults (Laura W. Hutchison).
Epilogue.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
“Since
I know nothing at all, I shall simply do whatever occurs to me”.
Thus I consciously submitted myself to the impulses of the unconscious.
The first thing that came to the surface was a childhood memory from
perhaps my tenth or eleventh year. At that time I had a spell of playing
passionately with building blocks. I distinctly recalled how I had built
little houses and castles, using bottles to form the sides of gates
and vaults. Somewhat later I had used ordinary stones, with mud for
mortar. These structures had fascinated me for a long time. To my astonishment
this memory was accompanied by a good deal of emotion. “Aha,”
I said to myself, “there is still life in these things. The small
boy is still around, possesses a creative life which I lack. But how
can I make my way to it?” For as a grown man it seemed impossible
to me that I should be able to bridge the distance from the present
back to my eleventh year. Yet if I wanted to re–establish contact
with that period, I had no choice but to return to it and take up once
more that child's life with his childish games. This moment was a turning
point in my fate, but I gave in only after endless resistances and with
a sense of resignation. For it was a painfully humiliating experience
to realize that there was nothing to be done except play childish games.
(Memories, Dreams and Reflections, pp. 173–174)." C. G. Jung |
Jazz,
le Cheval, l`Ecuyere et le Clown
by Henri Matisse
"The
creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by
the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays
with the objects it loves." C. G. Jung |
Dr.
Schaefer's legendary list of publications on child therapy and
play therapy includes such classics as:
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The Therapeutic Powers of Play
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Charles
E. Schaefer, PhD is considered
by many to be the "Father
of Play Therapy", and
is the recipient of the Association for Play Therapy's Lifetime
Achievement Award.He is Professor
of Psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University in
Teaneck, New Jersey. An expert in the field of play
therapy, he is the cofounder of the Association for
Play Therapy and the founder and co-director of the 
