Play Therapy Conference - Part One

Fundamentals of Adlerian Play Therapy

Date: Thursday, October 10, 2024
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Minnesota State University, Mankato - CSU

Workshop Overview: 
In Adlerian play therapy, therapists use the concepts of Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology to conceptualize children and their parents and teachers, while using toys, art, play material, and metacommunication to connect and communicate with them. The process of co-creating a relationship with the child through play allows therapists to communicate (mostly through metaphor, but sometimes through direct verbal interaction) in a way that facilitates exploration of the child’s patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, helps the child gain insight into those patterns, and invites the child to make changes in any patterns that are self-defeating or destructive. Engaging the child’s parents and teachers, exploring their own lifestyles and their interaction with the child, helping them to understand the child’s patterns, and teaching them skills for improving the relationship is an integral part of the custom-designed parent and teacher consultation component of Adlerian play therapy.  

Objectives: 
After the workshop, participants will be able to:

1. List and describe the four stages of Adlerian play therapy.
2. Describe what life style is and why thinking about it is important in Adlerian play therapy
3. Explain how tracking, restatement of content, and reflecting feelings are used in Adlerian play therapy.
4. Describe the 4-step limiting process used in Adlerian play therapy.
5. Explain how to use encouragement as a play therapy skill in Adlerian play therapy.
6. List the Crucial Cs (Courage, Connect, Count, and Capable) and describe how the Crucial Cs are used in Adlerian play therapy.
7. List the personality priorities (Comfort, Pleasing, Control, and Superiority) and explain how the personality priorities are used in Adlerian play therapy.
8. List the goals of misbehavior (Attention, Power, Revenge, Proving Inadequacy), and explain how the goals of misbehavior are used in Adlerian play therapy.
9. Describe two play therapy skills and two play therapy techniques used in exploring the client’s lifestyle in Adlerian play therapy.
10. Describe two play therapy skills and two play therapy techniques used in helping the client gain insight in Adlerian play therapy.
11. Describe two play therapy skills and two play therapy techniques using in facilitating the client making changes in their patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving in Adlerian play therapy.

Presenter Information: 

Nikole Pauli, LMHC, NCC, RPT-S, C-AdPT
 
Nikki was trained by the Dr. Terry Kottman, creator of Adlerian Play Therapy. In addition to teaching for LEAPT (League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists), Nikki runs a successful private practice in her college turned home town of Cedar Falls, IA. She is passionate about walking alongside adults, children, families, and couples. In addition to counseling, Nikki serves as a high school youth director at Orchard Hill Church. As a former collegiate and professional track and field athlete, Nikki now uses that passion to coach high school hurdlers and teach classes at Ninja U, a ninja obstacle gym she co-owns with her husband, Jacob. 
 
Outside of serving those in her community, Nikki enjoys spending time with her husband and their four children. You can find them enjoying the outdoors as often as possible or cuddled up reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Series of Unfortunate Events.

Nikki finds joy in time spent laughing with her people, dirtying her hands gardening, getting in a good workout, and enjoying good food.

Cost:  $149.00
>Includes continental breakfast and lunch
>Current site supervisor's receive $50 discount

Total of 8 CE hours approved (7 hours on Play Therapy Seminal or Historically Significant Theories and 1 hour on Play Therapy Skills and Methods)

• Co-sponsored by the League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists (LEAPT, LLC).  This training is approved by APT Approved Provider 99-055 for 8 CE hours.
• NBCC (NBCC ACEP # 4558)
• MN Board of Social Work
• MN Board of Psychology, MN Board of Behavioral Health, and MN Board of Marriage and Family Therapy (PENDING)

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