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Ethics in Play Therapy
July 16, 2021 @ 4:00 am – 7:15 am CDT
July 16th, 2021
Live In-Person Workshop
Time: 9:00am to 12:15pm
Cost: $75
Workshop Level: Beginner-Intermediate
Instructor:
Dr. Andrew Beer LMFT, RPT-S
Location:
Tanager Place Estle Center Lower Level Training Room
1030 5th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids Iowa
Training Hours:
Play therapy credit available to mental health professionals & graduate students in a mental health program
- Total: 3 Contact CEs
- Play Therapy Special Topics (3 Hrs)
Course Description: Working with children can present unique ethical challenges. In this workshop, participants will explore various considerations in providing ethical play therapy practice to clients. Special legal and ethical considerations related to confidentiality, high conflict families, and court involvement will be specifically discussed. Participants will identify ways that they can protect themselves and their clients, while improving the overall services they are providing. Discussion time will be provided for ethical dilemmas and participants will be able to utilize ethical decision making models to explore these situations.
Workshop Objectives
- Participants will discuss considerations in providing play therapy
- Participants will identify specific situations which often trigger the need for ethical considerations in play therapy, and how they can prepare from the start of treatment for managing them appropriately
- Participants will utilize ethical decision making models to process specific ethical dilemmas that arise in play therapy
Workshop Schedule
- 9:00am to 10:30am: Instruction
- 10:30am to 10:45am: Break
- 10:45am to 12:15pm: Instruction