The AAPT Blog
The AAPT Blog is the companion site for the Alabama Association for Play Therapy main web site. The AAPT Blog allows us to keep you up-to-date with announcements and other news related to play therapy. Simply click on one of the Blog Entries at right to read more.
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Hello Friends,
We have posted the latest edition of the AAPT Newsletter on our website!
We decided to allow everyone access to this Newsletter as well but time is running out on ALL ACCESS to our newsletters. We are working to allow members that benefit first and then later posting it in an open format.
It’s just one of the many benefits of membership.
Please also remember to post your comments if you attended the Spring Workshop with Liana Lowenstein and let us know what techniques you have used or enjoyed learning.
This can be done through the previous News From The Playground update — “Don’t Let the Dust Settle!”.
Remember to enjoy the summer and spend some time playing in the sunshine!
AAPT
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Don’t let the dust settle on all you learned!
Stay fresh by sharing what you learned at the recent Liana Lowenstein workshop. Liana presented so many great techniques – tell us your favorite.
Even if you were not able to attend feel free to share with us.
My favorite was the Family Gift assessment/technique. As Liana related, this and other techniques can be used with other therapeutic issues. I think this technique will also help strengthen families in general and could be used with “work families” in developing work relations. The directive was for the family to create a gift for your family using art supplies. It must be a gift everyone wants. It can only be one gift and you must all agree what the gift should be and how it might be used in your family.
What was your favorite technique she presented?
Let us know by simply replying to this blog entry.
Don’t forget to play today,
Kim Brindley, AAPT President
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We have added two new pages to our web site:
The “Links” web page has categorized descriptions and hyperlinks. Clicking on a hyperlink will open a new browser window and send you to the selected site.
Likewise, the “FAQs” web page has clickable hyperlinks to answers to many commonly asked questions related to AAPT and play therapy in general.
If you know of any good web sites or categories of web sites that we have missed, please add a comment below with the web address.
The same goes for FAQs — if you need a question answered and don’t see it on our list, please let us know via a comment. Even better, if you have an FAQ AND a suggestion for an answer, let us know that also.
Remember — this is your web site! The more input we receive, the better we can serve you.
Thanks for your help,
AAPT
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The Alabama Association for Play Therapy (AAPT) has grown into a solid organization committed to promoting the wellness of our state’s citizens – but it didn’t happen overnight.
Read how the vision, dedication, and hard-work of one person — and eventually many others that shared her vision – led to the creation and evolution of the AAPT that we know today.
If you have any special memories of the “early days”, please take a moment and leave a comment below.
Thanks,
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The Alabama Association for Play Therapy (AAPT) Spring Newsletter is available for download from our website.
In the future, the current newsletter will be available to members first then friends later. However, we’ve posted this newsletter so that everyone has access to it right now.
Check it out and discover:
Click here to download and view the Spring Newsletter!
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AAPT member Sharon Bell was recently consulted for an article in the Montgomery Advertiser.
She is a play therapist but also a Marriage and Family Therapist. Working to help families become and stay strong helps the parents and the children. The article also references the Family Guidance Center in Montgomery which works to create stronger families – the center employees several AAPT members.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
She (Bell) strongly recommends pre-marital therapy and urges couples to leave no stone unturned. In such sessions, they discuss time together, finances, religion, sex and other topics related to marriage as well as how to work toward a successful union.
Please take a moment to read the entire article entitled, “Groups Strive to Help Married Couples Preserve Their Unions“.
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Please remember that April is Child Abuse Awareness Month. This is an annual event bringing attention to the issue of child abuse and focusing on prevention. Since 1989, the Blue Ribbon Campaign to Prevent Child Abuse has been highlighted in April. It was started by a grandmother in Virginia who lost her grandson to child abuse. It started with this one grandmother tying a simple blue ribbon to the antenna of her car in remembrance of him and a reminder to others.
In honor of the precious children who have lost their lives as a result of abuse, children who may be saved by awareness, those taking action to prevent abuse, and out of appreciation for those who step in to help children who have been victimized, we encourage you to wear a blue ribbon during this month.
We send this blue ribbon as a small thank you for helping children heal from abuse.
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Our next workshop will feature Liana Lowenstein — the topic is “Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children and Children of Divorce”. Register online now!
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