These three book studies provide 18 total Non-Contact APT Credit Hours. No NBCC credit available.  

** Books are required and not included in the bundle price.** 

**This is a book-study course only.  You will purchase the three books on your own (they are not included).  After you finish reading the books, you can login to take the quizzes and obtain your certificate.  There are NO supplemental materials (PowerPoints, lecture, etc) included in these book-study courses.  You can take the quizzes one at a time and in any order.

Book 1:

Healing Child and Family Trauma Expressive and Play Therapies

The book is available for purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Family-through-Expressive-Therapies/dp/039371375X

There are many ways to help children and families heal from trauma. Leaning on our ancestral wisdom of healing through play, art, nature, storytelling, body, touch, imagination, and mindfulness practice, Janet A. Courtney helps the clinician bring a variety of practices into the therapy room. This book identifies seven stages of therapy that provide a framework for working with client’s emotional, cognitive, somatic, and sensory experiences to heal from trauma. Through composite case illustrations, practitioners will learn how to safely mitigate a range of trauma content, including complicated grief, natural disaster, children in foster care, aggression, toxic divorce, traumatized infants diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome, and young mothers recovering from opioid addiction. Practice exercises interspersed throughout guide practitioners to personally engage in the creative expressive and play therapy techniques presented in each chapter, augmenting professional self- awareness and skill- building competencies.

Book 2: Infant Play Therapy: Foundations, Models, Programs and Practice

The book is available for purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/Infant-Play-Therapy-Foundations-Programs/dp/1138613304

Infant Play Therapy is a groundbreaking resource for practitioners interested in the varied play therapy theories, models, and programs available for the unique developmental needs of infants and children under the age of three.

The impressive list of expert contributors in the fields of play therapy and infant mental health cover a wide range of early intervention play-based models and topics. Chapters explore areas including: neurobiology, developmental trauma, parent-infant attachment relationships, neurosensory play, affective touch, grief and loss, perinatal depression, adoption, autism, domestic violence, sociocultural factors, and more. Chapter case studies highlight leading approaches and offer techniques to provide a comprehensive understanding of both play therapy and the ways we understand and recognize the therapeutic role of play with infants.

In these pages professionals and students alike will find valuable clinical resources to bring healing to family systems with young children.

Book 3: Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy: An Ethical and Clinical Guide

The Book is available for purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/Touch-Child-Counseling-Play-Therapy/dp/1138638536

Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy explores the professional and legal boundaries around physical contact in therapy and offers best-practice guidelines from a variety of perspectives. Chapters address issues around appropriate and sensitive therapist-initiated touch, therapeutic approaches that use touch as an intervention in child treatment, and both positive and challenging forms of touch that are initiated by children. In these pages, professionals and students alike will find valuable information on ways to address potential ethical dilemmas, including defining boundaries, working with parents and guardians, documentation, consent forms, cultural considerations, countertransference, and much more.


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