FAPT Thursday Evening Additions for 2023 Annual Conference

Helping Play Therapy Supervisees Navigate Ethical Dilemmas with Athena Drewes, PsyD, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor ™

Intermediate | Play Therapy Special Topics

Understanding the ethical and legal obligations in play therapy consultation and supervision can be complicated due to the various layers of obligations and current tele-health practice. This didactic and experiential workshop will focus on what an ethical dilemma is and how to address the various types that may be encountered by a play therapy supervisee, and which could put the registered play therapist supervisor at legal risk. Terms will be defined, a comparison of remedial vs. positive ethics made, how to utilize ethical decision making, what are the supervisor responsibilities and telehealth practice issues will be addressed. Dilemmas will focus on such situations as tele-health treatment, sexualized behaviors in the playroom, impulsive-aggressive children, cultural and religious differences with parents, counter-transference issues among others.

After the session, participants will be able to:

1. Identify what ethical dilemmas are and how they may manifest within play therapy.

2. Utilize ethical decision making to assist supervisees with their difficult play therapy cases.

3. Assess and handle at least three ethical dilemmas encountered in play therapy.

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Diversity in the Playroom: Reframing Resilience with Sheerah Neal Keith, LMHC, LPC, NCC, Registered Play Therapist™

Intermediate | Play Therapy Special Topics

Children from diverse backgrounds and from historically marginalized groups are often described as resilient because of various obstacles they may face. But what does it mean to be resilient? And who gets to decide? Well-meaning play therapists can do harm when they adopt limited views of resilience. Poor understanding of resilience can also lead to resilience fatigue when children and families are repeatedly expected to “bounce back” from chronic adversity and stress. In this presentation, participants will engage in learning exercises to enhance their understanding of resiliency as one of the therapeutic powers of play. Participants will learn about various definitions and myths regarding resilience. Resilience assumptions concerning children from historically marginalized populations will be emphasized. Participants will leave the presentation with key takeaways on building capacity for resilience using play therapy interventions.

After the session, participants will be able to:

1. Discuss the relevance of resilience as one of the therapeutic powers of play.

2. Identify 3 resilience assumptions concerning children from historically marginalized populations.

3. Describe 3 playful ways to help build capacity for resilience without promoting resilience fatigue.

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Registration will begin at 6:00 p.m. Choose your session.

APT has a room block at the Rosen Plaza. Reservations can be made directly with the HOTEL by calling 1-800-627-8258 or 407-996-9700. Please request the GROUP rate for FLORIDA ASSOCIATION FOR PLAY THERAPY. until reservations due date, Wednesday, March 8, 2023.

Cancellation Policy:

$20 is non-refundable. Written cancellations received 30 days or more prior to the start of the session will receive a full refund of the balance minus $20. Cancellations less than 30 days prior to the start of the conference will forfeit the total cost of registration.

In the very unlikely event that the workshop must be cancelled or postponed by the organizers, the Florida Association for Play Therapy will provide a full refund of the registration fees.

Registering for this event implies your agreement to the following COVID-19 policy.

2 hours of continuing education available

The Florida Association for Play Therapy (FAPT) is an approved provider for the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. APT Approved Provider 02-115. Play therapy credit will not be awarded to non-mental health professionals. FAPT is approved by the Florida Department of Health under FL Statute 491 to offer continuing education for Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors. Provider Number BAP-50-10520 expires 03/31/2025. FAPT is approved by the Florida Department of Health under FL Statute 490 to offer continuing education for Psychologists. Provider Number BAP-50-10520 expires 05/31/2024.

About our presenters...

Athena Drewes, PsyD, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor™ - is a licensed psychologist, certified school psychologist and Registered Play Therapist and Supervisor. Formerly Director of Training and Director of the American Psychological Association Doctoral Psychology Internship at Astor Services for Children and Families in New York. She is currently semi-retired and lives in Ocala, FL, and continues to supervise nationally and internationally, write and train. She has over 45 years of clinical and supervision experience with complex trauma, sexual abuse, foster care children and adolescents, in school, outpatient and inpatient settings. She is former Board of Director of the Association for Play Therapy and Founder and President Emeritus of the NY Association for Play Therapy. She is a frequently invited guest lecturer around the United States and internationally, including Canada, England, Ireland, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, Australia, Taiwan, Denmark, Korea, and China. She has published numerous book chapters, journal articles and edited/co-edited twelve play therapy books with the most recent Cultural Issues in Play Therapy, Second Edition; Play-based interventions for childhood anxieties, fears, and phobias; Puppet play therapy; Play therapy in middle childhood with a companion DVD of Dr. Drewes demonstrating her work in Prescriptive Integrative Play Therapy with the American Psychological Association; and co-edited with Dr. Charles Schaefer The Therapeutic powers of play. 20 Core agents of change (Wiley).

Sheerah Neal Keith, LMHC, LPC, NCC, Registered Play Therapist™ - is passionate about serving children and families belonging to historically marginalized and oppressed communities. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Qualified Supervisor in Florida, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Mississippi, a National Certified Counselor, and a Registered Play Therapist. Sheerah is a doctoral candidate in Counselor Education and Supervision at the University of Mississippi. She currently works as a graduate assistant in the University’s School of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Design and at the University’s Center for Research and Evaluation. She also serves as an Editorial Assistant for the International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling. Sheerah’s research interests include early childhood adversity and toxic stress, social determinants of mental health (particularly those impacting children and communities of color), neurodevelopmental markers of psychosocial well-being, and mental health aspects of early childhood policy. Sheerah strongly believes in using research as advocacy for the children and families most in need.

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