**Friday morning will be Ethics and afternoon will be Supervision. Saturday will be Training Buffalos!**

Topic – Family Play Therapy with Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Presentation Title: Training Buffalo’s: Using ISPT to Treat Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders

Description: Disruptive Behavior Disorders (ADHD, ODD, CD, ASD, etc.) tend to be the most sought out concerns for families and schools, yet therapists tend to shy away from these cases. Just like avoiding buffalo’s in the wild, treatment providers want to maintain a distance in order to avoid getting hurt. Over 50 years of research tells us how to help children with these disorders, yet most of the interventions that are still used actually perpetuate the problem. Learn the tricks involved in taming wild buffalo’s and how they are similar to helping children with disruptive behavior disorders and their families. Participants will be introduced to family system’s principles that are pertinent to families with a child(ren) who have disruptive behaviors. These systems principles will be combined with filial play therapy, directive play therapy, and child-centered play therapy principles to inform the play therapists work with this treatment population.

Time for Presentation: 6 hours
Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion of the presentation participants will –

o Describe 3 family systems principles pertinent to disruptive behaviors,

o Identify the systemic nature of disruptive behaviors and utilize play therapy interventions systemically,

o Discuss current play therapy research on interventions for disruptive behavior disorders,

o Identify and discuss the coercion cycle and its application to play therapy,

o Identify the role of the play therapist at involving parents and extra-systemic adults in play therapy,

o Identify and utilize appropriate filial/directive/child-centered play therapy tools for disruptive behavior, and

o Demonstrate through role play, the use of play therapy tools in various scenarios.

Presentation Title: Organizing Chaos: The Ethics of Counseling Children and Families with Play Therapy!

Description: Treating children and families is complex and challenging, but for the most part fun. When clinicians want to work with children and families, getting started can be chaotic. Especially when faced with seemingly contradictory legal and ethical guidelines. Each professional counseling profession has their own Code of Ethics, training standards, and treatment philosophies, which often leads to confusion regarding what is appropriate when counseling children and families. This workshop will focus on outlining the best practices for ethically and legally counseling children and families. Participants will compare the similarities and differences between counseling profession codes of ethics, as well as reviewing the Association for Play Therapy’s statement on Play Therapy Best Practices. Participants will be required to take two assessments prior to the workshop in order to participate in the breakout sessions where they will discuss their own implicit biases and their own moral foundations. Discussions will focus on enhancing multicultural competency using examining the results of their implicit biases and moral foundations.

• Please take one Implicit Bias assessment (either the Race, Sexuality, or Weight IAT)

found here: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html

• Please take the Moral Foundations Questionnaire-2 (MFQ-2) found here:

https://yourmorals.org/

Time for Presentation: 3 hours

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion of the presentation participants will –

o Identify their own implicit biases and how they impact their use of play therapy.

o Explain their legal and ethical restrictions to treating families and children with play therapy.

o Compare their own professional code of ethics with play therapy best practices.

Presentation Title: Seeing Clearly: Advanced Methods in the Clinical Supervision of Play Therapy

Description: One of the requirements to becoming a Registered Play TherapistTM is to have at least five sessions observed by your supervisor. “Live Supervision” is an advanced method in clinical supervision that requires the supervisor to balance concern for client welfare and the mentorship of clinical skills. This training will focus on the self-of-the-supervisor factors that often get in the way of encouraging, using, and benefiting from “Live Supervision”. Participants will also identify their social location and discuss how being aware of social location of self and others can enhance multicultural competency.

Time for Presentation: 3 hours

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion of the presentation participants will be able to –

o Identify how their social location can impact the play therapy supervisory relationship.

o Explain the benefits and mechanics of live supervision in play therapy.

o Demonstrate through role-play 2 essential skills in live play therapy supervision.