Integrating Art and Play Therapy – Don’t wait to register!

The Alabama Association for Play Therapy is counting down to a frequently requested workshop integrating art and play therapy. It will be held June 17th in Birmingham. You can go to our website and get more information at www.alabamaplaytherapy.org where you can also register online until JUNE 14th. After that you must register onsite.

Integrating Art and Play Therapy

The Alabama Association for Play Therapy will host Integrating Art and Play Therapy with Karen Abato on June 17th. Online registration is now open. Get a copy of the brochure and more information by logging onto our website www.alabamaplaytherapy.org. If you are MAILING in your registration it must be postmarked by June 11th.

AAPT Lunch and Learn- Amelia Center May 17th

• Tuesday, May 17th from 12-1
• Birmingham’s AAPT Play Therapy Lunch and Learn is being hosted this month by the Amelia Center
• 1 hour of FREE continuing education
• Bring your sack lunch and a friend! Come see their play therapy room!
• Amelia Center will gracious provide a dessert.

Play Therapy Training at U of A

The Office of Play Therapy: Research and Learning at The University of Alabama will provide two opportunities for play therapy training.  These two courses meet the academic requirements for registered play therapist registration.  Both of these classes are open to persons in the last 12 hours of their undergraduate preparation in a related discipline through post doctoral work.  A interested person would have to apply to the graduate school as a non-degree seeking student, which means that the usual graduate school requirements are waived.

The first course is BCE 653: Introduction to Play Therapy.  This course is offered online entirely.  It begins on May 9 through 27.  We will meet each week for a live supervision on Tuesday and Thursday nights.  The class is presented in a series of modules with chapter tests.  Each student is required to have 10 practice play therapy sessions for supervision purposes.  At least two of these sessions needs to be submitted for review via digital recording.  

BCE 654:Advanced Play Therapy is a series of weekend classes on the following dates:  July 8-9; 15-16; 22-23; and 29-30.  These classes meet on Friday night beginning at 6 PM to 9 PM and again on Saturday from 9 AM to 4 PM.  These are activity based  with a hands on workshop format.  A series of videos of master play therapist will demonstrate the leading concepts and the class will be doing experiential work following the methodology.  The weekends will focus on Sand Play, Art Interpretation, Music, Movement and Musings, and then Diversity and Adaption of Play Therapy.  It is important to know that you will not be sitting in a traditional lecture atmosphere, but one of continuing play therapy experiences.  Students who enroll are allowed to miss one weekend and still receive a full grade for the class.  Students are expected to have 10 practice play therapy sessions external to the class which will be supervised in class through digital play back.  Digital recorders are available for loan.

If you have questions, please contact Karla Carmichael at kcarmich@bamaed.ua.edu

 or 205-242-6240.

Please join Birmingham’s AAPT networking group for a Lunch and Learn

Online Registration For Ethics Workshop Extended

Due to the great response to the Ethics seminar scheduled in Montgomery for April 1st we have extended online registration through Wednesday March 30th. You can also still register at the door on the day of the workshop if space is available.

For more information and to download a brochure click here. Hope to see you there!

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Can texting and facebooking clients be considered unethical?

Do you know the latest court cases addressing ethics in counseling? Do you have a will designating what happens to your files if you are in private practice? Have you obtained the REQUIRED number of ethics hours in order to renew your LPC license in July?

If you answered no or I don’t know to any of these questions then you might want to consider attending the Ethics on the Edge workshop being offered April 1, 2011 in Montgomery. For more information log onto our website here. You can register online, get more information and download a copy of the brochure.

Please also note that we will be having an Art and Play Therapy workshop in June. More information will be coming out about that in the next few weeks.

Enjoy the spring!

AAPT

ETHICS SEMINAR APRIL 1st. ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

All LPCs are required to have Ethics ceu’s and AAPT would like to help you obtain those. On April 1,2011 we are hosting an Ethics workshop in Montgomery. If you attend all day you can obtain six contact hours. Or you can register for the morning or afternoon session and get three contact hours. Dr. Paul Hard will be our presenter. For more information and registration CLICK HERE.

More information will also be coming soon about our Art and Play Therapy Workshop in June!

Happy Spring!

AAPT

Don’t Miss Birmingham’s AAPT Networking, Play Therapy Lunch and Learn

On Tuesday, February 15, 2010 from 12-1pm the Birmingham Networking Group will host a lunch and Learn. Lisa Cowart, LPC-S, RPT-S, NCC and Amy Ray, LPC, RPT, NCC both of which are play therapists employed by CHIPS, will share some of the play therapy techniques they have found to be helpful in working with children who are abused.  If you would like to share your own play therapy techniques that you have found helpful with this population, you are welcome to do so.  We will take a brief tour of CHIPS, including their playrooms.   

Please bring your own lunch and bring a friend. CHIPS will provide a drink and sweet treat. AAPT will provide a free, play therapy continuing education credit. Please call 558-7251 and ask to speak to Alisha Turner or Lisa Cowart at CHIPS to let us know you are coming. CHIPS is located at Children’s Health System 1600 5th Ave. S., Suite 100, Birmingham, AL. CHIPS is located in the Children’s Park Place building, on the ground floor.  Entrance is directly off the sidewalk, at the corner of 5th Ave So and 16th St. So. You will need to park in the building’s deck off of 16^th street.  Parking is free in the deck, however you must buzz Security at the entrance gate of the deck to say you are going to Suite 100 for a CHIPS meeting, and they will allow you access into the gate.  You can park anywhere in the deck, except on the first level (for patients) and in reserved areas.  Take the elevator to level 1. Once you have exited the elevator, go out the closest set of double doors, make a right. You will be walking on the 5th Avenue sidewalk.  CHIPS is the first suite to your right with our name on the door.  For more information on CHIPS and general directions to CHIPS go to http://chips.chsys.org/ .

Where can you find the clickers? CLICK here and find out!

If you haven’t seen the video commercial by Brijin Gardner describing just one of the MANY techniques she will present on January 28th take time to check it out HEREon our conference page. She describes a unique way to encourage communication with teens and tweens who can sometimes be resistant to the usual ways of communicating. But where do you find the clicker? We thought we’d let you know that U.S. Toy has just what you need. You can find a variety of clickers here!

We also have our next workshop set and are working on an ethics workshop for the spring to meet the ceu requirements for LPCs. So stay in the loop by following the blog or “like” us on Facebook.

Stay warm!

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