Are Your Markers Dried Up?: The Ethical Importance of Self-Care in your Play Therapy and Clinical Practice – New England
Description:
Do you find yourself feeling emotionally exhausted and frustrated in your play therapy practice? Are you exhausted at the thought of another day at work? Are your metaphorical markers getting dried up? Studies have shown that play therapy can be emotionally demanding on therapists, more so than other forms of counseling. High levels of stress and burnout can lead a good play therapist down a path of scribbles when it comes to managing those ethical lines of practice. Join this reflective workshop to assess your experience in play therapy practice and find the color in your wellness, self-care and balance practices.
Objectives:
- Participants of this workshop will examine the experiences in play therapy that contribute to the therapist’s experience of stress, burnout and low job satisfaction.
- Participants of this workshop will identify and experience self-assessment tools that facilitate assessment of the therapist’s experience of stress, burnout and job satisfaction in their play therapy practice.
- Participants of this workshop will experience and discuss play therapy interventions designed to explore their own experiences with wellness, self-care, and finding balance in order to advance their professional self-awareness and coping strategies in their play therapy practice.
Instructor: Brooke Hackett, LCSW, RPT™
Workshop Schedule:
9:00-10:30 Sign-In, Play Check-In and Training
10:30-10:45 Morning Break
10:45-12:15 Training Continues with Workshop Conclusion
Workshop Cancellation:
- Cancellation requests should be submitted by email to Heartlandpti@gmail.com no later than 7 calendar days prior to the scheduled workshop date in order to receive a full refund of the paid workshop fee. Cancellation and/or rescheduled requests that are submitted after 7 calendar days prior to the scheduled workshop date will result in a refund of the paid workshop fee – with the exception of a $25 administrative fee for a half-day workshop, a $50 administrative fee for a full-day workshop a $75 administrative fee for 2-day workshop.
- Heartland Play reserves the right to cancel a workshop due to insufficient enrollment. Heartland Play will email workshop students at least 5 calendar days in advance of the scheduled workshop date to notify students of the cancellation. Notice will be provided with the option to reschedule for a future course date or to receive a full refund of paid workshop fees.
- Heartland Play reserves the right to cancel a workshop due to inclement weather, instructor illness or instructor family emergency. If a workshop is canceled, students will be notified via e-mail prior to the workshop start time. Heartland Play will notify the students of a reschedule date for the workshop within 10 calendar days of the cancelled workshop. Notice will be provided with the option to reschedule for the future course date or to receive a full refund of the paid workshop fee.