Course Description:


It’s a lot. We know how much you love your work with children and their families. Providing play therapy is simultaneously rewarding and can be incredibly energy depleting. In this unique and timely webinar play therapists will have the opportunity to identify and understand how and why the work of play therapy impacts us so immensely. We will consider how when working with children, we as clinicians must take into considerations our own experience of the work. Preventing compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma will be addressed through the lens of wellness so that play therapists gain a greater understanding of how their overall health and clinical stamina can be maintained and even improved so that they can keep doing their best work; focusing on helping children heal through play therapy. In this course, participants will have multiple authentic learning experiences.

Objectives


By the end of this course participants are able to:

1) Identify common triggers for compassion fatigue in the clinical work of play therapy.
2) Describe how play therapists can prevent compassion fatigue.
3) Describe how to identify compassion fatigue in self and supervisees.


Continuing Education Credits

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. This course provides 4.5 non-contact APT credits. 

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. This course provides 4.5 CE credits. 

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. This course provides 4.5 CE credits. 

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

Dr. Jodi Mullen is a professor at SUNY Oswego in the Counseling & Psychological Services Department. She primarily teaches in the Mental Health Counseling Program. She is the director of Integrative Counseling Services, with several offices in Central New York. Dr. Mullen is an international speaker, author, credentialed play therapist and play therapy supervisor. Dr. Mullen has over 30 years in the field of counseling. She has authored books on play therapy, counseling children and adolescents, supervision, grief counseling and parenting. Dr. Mullen was the 2008 recipient of the Key Award for Professional Training & Education through the Association for Play Therapy. She is the proud Momma of Leah & Andrew.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to the Course

    2. How does this self-study course work?

    1. PowerPoint: Play Therapy and Compassion Fatigue

    2. Course Video Part 1: Play Therapy and Compassion Fatigue

    3. Course Video Part 2: Play Therapy and Compassion Fatigue

    4. Compassion Fatigue Handout

    1. Glossary of Play Therapy Terms

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

    1. Evaluation (Required)

    2. Quiz (Required)

About this course

  • Free
  • 10 lessons
  • 4.5 hours of video content