4 Basic Skills for Play Therapists

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What are the four basic play therapy skills every play therapist needs to master to competently provide play therapy that gets real results for your clients?
The Association for Play Therapy has identified several play therapy core competencies necessary for becoming a Registered Play Therapist ™
These core competencies identify what skills should be learned as a play therapist.
These skills set play therapists apart from simply pulling out games and art supplies to help your young clients “talk” about what’s bothering them.
These skills require play therapists to be grounded in a theoretical model that dictates how basic play therapy skills are implemented in play therapy sessions.
What are these basic play therapy skills?
Join me on this week’s podcast episode, I’ll discuss what these skills are and how they make a difference in the quality of play therapy services you provide to your clients.

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1. 4 Basic Skills for Play Therapists (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:00:01)

3. Today's topic (00:00:58)

4. Overview of today's topic (00:01:17)

5. Skill 1:: Tracking (00:12:59)

6. Skill 2: Reflection of Feelings (00:15:17)

7. Skill 4: Pacing (00:25:58)

8. Recap of today's discussion (00:30:07)

9. Resources - Play Therapy Academy (00:30:53)

10. Outro (00:36:34)