Course Description


With 30 years of combined experience in practicing, teaching, and supervising play therapy, the presenters share what is at the core of conducting ethical, professional, and clinically sound play therapy. We will discuss the culture of childhood, the 8 basic principles, and philosophy of child-centered play therapy. You will walk away feeling grounded in the child-centered play therapy approach!

Objectives:

At the end of this course participants will be able to:

1) describe the elements of the culture of childhood 

2) understand how and why Axline's 8 basic principles are followed in the child-centered play therapy approach

3) recognize the integration between understanding children through a culture of childhood lens and the child-centered play therapy philosophy


Presented by: 
Tiffany Tesoriero MS, LMHC, LPC, CCPT

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

Duration: 1 Hr

Continuing Education (1 CE)
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

    • The Core of CCPT

    • Main Course Video - The Core of Child-Centered Play Therapy
  • 3

    Resources

    • Activity - Is It Child Centered?

    • Activity Answers - Is It Child Centered?

    • Dr. Mullen's Favorite Play Therapy Reads!

    • Glossary of Play Therapy Terms

    • Dr. Mullen's Parenting Podcast: Freakishly Well-Behaved Kids
  • 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.

MS, LPC, CCPT-S (in training)

Tiffany Tesoriero

Tiffany Tesoriero is a  Licensed Professional Counselor as well as a Child-Centered Play  Therapist. She earned her master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling  from the State University of New York at Oswego and went on to receive  licensure in the states of New York and Colorado. She has earned  additional credentialing as a Child-Centered Play Therapist through the  National Institute of Relationship Enhancement (NIRE). She is also  currently in the process of becoming a play therapy supervisor through  NIRE. Tiffany worked at Integrative Counseling Services in New York, and  since relocating to Colorado has opened her own private practice,  Sunrise Springs Counseling Services.