Course Description


Understanding the ethics of mental health services is vital to offering quality care for your clients. When working with children, ethical considerations need to be revisited and re-envisioned to meet the needs of the culture of childhood. Working with children offers its own set of challenges, and as a play therapist, it is important that you educate yourself to prepare for possible ethical dilemmas. In this course, you will learn about ethical considerations play therapists should prepare for, gain an understanding of Virginia Axline's 8 Basic Principles and how they apply to ethics in play therapy, and you will explore the steps you should take to ensure that you are offering the best play therapy services you can for your community. 


Objectives: 

1) Identify ethical issues specific to treating children and adolescents in Play Therapy or using other modalities.
2) Discuss common ethical dilemmas that may arise when working with young children and how these may differ from working with adults.
3) Describe the responsibility of the Play Therapist of child psychotherapist concerning confidentiality, custody issues, and dual relationships.


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 - Playing Fair: Ethics and Play Therapy

    • Powerpoint - Playing Fair: Ethics and Play Therapy
  • 3

    Resources

    • Works Cited

    • Glossary of Play Therapy Terms

    • Dr. Mullen's Favorite Play Therapy Reads!
  • 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.