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How to Use Play Therapy with Adolescents
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Have you ever had an adolescent client sitting across from you during therapy sessions who was not opening up despite all your best rapport building efforts?
They sit there across from you slumped in their chair (maybe hood on their head) or looking at you with a blank face?
It can be challenging working with youth who can’t (or won’t) open up and talk about what’s causing so much pain and distress in their lives.
If you’re a play therapist, how do you provide play therapy services to adolescents so they don’t feel like your treating them like little kids or babies?
This can also be challenging.
Adolescents have their own unique needs in the mental health treatment process.
I’m going to share lessons learned over the last 30 years in child/adolescent mental health to engage adolescents in the healing process.
Yes - even the grumpy, guarded, and defensive adolescents.
Join my free Facebook Community Play and Expressive Arts Therapy Playground.
Check out my free resources for mental health professionals working with children, adolescents, and families who want to integrate play therapy and expressive arts into their clinical work.
I work with individuals and agencies to develop successful strategies and meet the treatment needs of your child and adolescent clients and their families using play therapy & expressive arts.
Contact me to schedule a free 30-minute video call if you're ready to level up your skills
Capitole
1. How to Use Play Therapy with Adolescents (00:00:00)
2. Intro (00:00:44)
3. The question that I get asked all the time (00:01:18)
4. Topics in this week's podcast (00:02:02)
5. Where to find my weekly live stream (00:02:53)
6. About Cathi (00:04:14)
7. How to use play therapy with adolescents (00:05:39)
8. Focus on core developmental tasks (00:05:45)
9. What are expressive arts and how can you use play therapy with adolescents (00:09:25)
10. Using a theoretical model (00:15:00)
11. Recap of today's discussion (00:17:45)
12. Resources (00:22:33)
13. Outro (00:23:05)
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