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

By the end of this course participants are able to: 

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.


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 2 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 2 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 2 CE credits. 

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

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

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    2. How does this self-study course work?

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    1. PowerPoint: Playing Fair- Ethics in Play Therapy

    2. VIDEO: Playing Fair Ethics In Play Therapy

    1. Glossary of Play Therapy Terms

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

    3. References

    1. Evaluation (Required)

    2. Quiz (Required)

    3. Stay in Touch! Join the mailing list for course sales and updates

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About this course

  • $50.00
  • 10 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content