Parent-Child Play Therapy

Catalog description

Parent-child play therapy builds upon the introduction to play therapy course and focuses on helping parents/caregivers enhance their relationship with children through play therapy modalities. Students will learn the history, principles, and skills of filial therapy, with an emphasis on Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT). Students will have opportunities to strengthen their play therapy skills, develop the ability to conduct CPRT, and learn how to facilitate systemic changes in children's lives through working with parents/caregivers. This course contains an experiential component including in-class role-playing and supervised parent-child play therapy experiences with parents/caregivers.