Professional Development for Social Workers
One or Two CEUs are available for each workshop. After the workshops, complete the quiz to receive your CEU. Kids Inc. is an approved provider of Play Therapy Continuing Education by the Association for Play Therapy, APT Approved Provider 10-275.
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Screening Suicide
$60.002 CEUs (Non-Contact)
Presenter: Lisa Cowart, LPC, RPT-S, NCC
Learn how to conceptualize suicide risk and protective factors during the suicide screening process. Explore suicide screening tools and limitations.
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Divorce And Children
$30.00Previously Recorded (Non-Contact)-1 CEU.
Presenter: Allan Gonsher, LSCSW, RPT/S.
This webinar will discuss the theoretical underpinnings of “divorce therapy” and its impact on children. Maintaining distinct boundaries between the parents, communication between parents, parenting and other specific ideas will be discussed. Many ideas/techniques will be provided.
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Protect Yourself…..Preventing Unwarranted Accusations (2 CEUs)
$60.00Previously Recorded (Non-contact)-2 CEUs.
Presenter: Allan GonsherIn today’s world clinicians need to be aware of situations which can “compromise” his/her work. Whether it is touch, ethical accusations or suggested inappropriate behavior, clinicians need to be prepared. This webinar is being taught by Allan M. Gonsher, a master clinician for almost 40 years. He will address issues that all clinicians that work with children need to consider from the release of information forms, videotaping, to engagement with skeptical/aggressive parents. This is a webinar not to be missed.
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Tragedy, Destructive Politics and Anger
$30.001 CEU (Non-Contact)
Presenter: Allan Gonsher, LSCSW, RPT-S
In today’s world where there is tragedy, destructive politics, and anger it will, of course, impact our children. Whether these are issues which cause the children to be referred to us ( the presenting problem) or they are simply the atmosphere that impacts our children’s lives, we need to be understanding, objective, and practical. This webinar will address issues that touch children’s lives, discuss the theoretical challenges children and clinicians must address, explore counter-transferential issues, and provide practical techniques to help.
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The Paradigm Of The Beginnings Work With Clients: The First Contact
$60.00Previously Recorded (Non-Contact) 2 CEUs.
Presenter: Allan M. Gonsher, LIMHP, LCSW, RPT-S.
This webinar will discuss referral sources, the initial call, the decision to use individual or family work, and many other intricate considerations when engaging a client for the first time. We often lose sight of the “joining” aspect of therapy and find ourselves with cancellations or no shows when the initial contact has not been established. -
The Working stage of Assessment, Observation, and Treatment Goals
$60.00Previously Recorded (Non-Contact) 2 CEUs.
Presenter: Amy Badding, RPT, MS, NCC, LMHC.
This webinar will address issues of Assessment, Observations and Treatment goals. Often clinicians believe this only takes place in intake. Having the skills to navigate these issues enhance a therapist’s success in helping children. A conceptualization AND application of this knowledge is what this webinar is all about.
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Termination
$30.00Previously Recorded (Non-contact)-1 CEU.
Allan M. Gonsher, LIMHP, LCSW, RPT-S.
Termination with clients has many different expressions, i.e., planned, premature, and abrupt. Discussion of terminations and its impact on both the clinician and the client is often ignored. Planning for an abrupt ending of therapy is within the framework of this webinar. Termination with toys, words, letters can often help in this process. -
Ethics
$30.00Previously Recorded (Non-Contact)-1 CEU.
Presenter: Allan M. Gonsher, LCSW, RPT-S.
This webinar will discuss the ethics that surround children and therapy. We will discuss issues that apply to therapy in general, but will also include issues which impact children, young families, and how they are played out in Play Therapy.
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The Doll and the Doll House
$30.00Previously Recorded (Non-contact) 1 CEU.
Presenter: Allan M. Gonsher, LIMHP, LCSW, RPT-S.
When using toys in a play room one needs to be very aware of symbolism, location, and relationship they have with each other. Toys are not simply “Toys” in Play therapy. When setting up a play room where the Doll House and its dolls are located are a very significant issue. Who chooses the Doll House, what does each movement in the house mean, how is it set up, who talks, what is the symbolism of each piece of furniture, are just some of the topics to be covered in this webinar. Be prepared to be challenged in how you implement Play therapy in relation to the Doll House. -
Limit Setting in the Play Room: Play Therapy has a lot to say about Boundaries
$30.001 CEU (Non-Contact)
Presenter: Allan Gonsher, LSCSW, RPT/S
Often children test limits in a play room. Depending on one’s theoretical training, how the clinician implements these boundary settings in her/her play room is not anticipated. Learning how, why, and when to set limits is an integral part of Play Therapy.
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Play Therapy and Counter-Transference: The Practical Applications and the “Ugliness” of It
$60.00Previously Recorded- (Non-Contact) 2CEUs.
Presenter: Amanda Gurock.
To appreciate Jung and Freud and their discussions of the “Archetype” are part of this webinar. This background helps in knowing how to function as a play therapist. When trying to understand and define countertransference, we often want to “know what to do”. Once a clinician can define, become aware of, and process it, the ability to function in a playroom becomes much more successful. The Practical application of countertransference and play therapy is a complicated phenomenon.
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Death and Play Therapy
$30.00Previously Recorded (Non-Contact) 1 CEU.
Presenter: Allan M. Gonsher, LIMHP, LCSW, RPT-S.
Too often clinicians distract from children’s painful sense of loss by prescribing an activity to assuage difficult moments. This webinar will focus on therapists’ counter-transference conceptualizing issues of children’s losses and provide practical techniques for both clinicians and child. Focus will be on death, the preeminent painful loss for all.
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