Course Description

Older children and adolescents are not too old for play therapy. Play therapy can be tweaked and augmented to create developmentally well-suited interventions for kids who are too old for traditional play therapy. In this webinar, participants will learn how to adapt basic play therapy skills to engage pre-adolescents and adolescents in play therapy. Developmental and cultural issues relevant with these kids will be addressed and many practical and dynamic interventions will be demonstrated.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1) Identify three ways to adapt play therapy to pre-adolescents and adolescents.

2) Describe play therapy techniques suitable to preadolescents and adolescents.

3) Create play therapy interventions based on the developmental and emotional needs of the client.

Presented by: 

Jodi Mullen PhD, LMHC, NCC, RPT-S, CCPT-Master

Duration: 2 Hrs
Continuing Education (2 CEs)
Integrative Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized  by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental  Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for  licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0085

Integrative  Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York  State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved  provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0308.

Integrative Counseling Services, PLLC is approved by The Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. Our provider number is 06-168.




Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • How to Complete this Course!

    • Welcome!

    • Tell us more about YOU!
  • 2

    Course

    • Main Course Video - Play Therapy Informed Tips & Tricks for Connecting to Teens
  • 3

    Resources

    • Dr. Mullen's Favorite Play Therapy Reads!

    • Glossary of Play Therapy Terms
  • 4

    Continuing Education

    • Continuing Education Quiz
  • 5

    Course Feedback

    • Course Feedback Survey

About the instructors

PhD, LMHC, NCC, RPT-S, CCPT-Master

Jodi Mullen

Dr. Jodi Weinstein Mullen, PhD LMHC NCC RPT-S CCPT-Master is the Director of Integrative Counseling Services in Oswego, Fulton, Cicero, and Auburn, New York. She is on the faculty at SUNY Oswego in the Counseling & Psychological Services Department where she is the coordinator of the Graduate Certificate Program in Play Therapy. Dr. Mullen is a credentialed play therapist and play therapy supervisor. She is the author of several manuscripts on play therapy and supervision. Her books include “Counseling Children and Adolescents through Grief and Loss”(co-authored by Dr. Jody Fiorini)(2006), “Play Therapy Basic Training: A Guide to Learning & Living & the Child-Centered Play Therapy Philosophy”(2007), “Supervision can be Playful: Techniques for Child and Play Therapist Supervisors” (co-edited with Athena Drewes) (2008), and “How Play Therapists Can Engage Parents & Professionals” (co-authored by June Rickli)(2011). Dr. Mullen is on the editorial board for the international Journal of Play Therapy. She is also the clinical editor of Play Therapy magazine.