• Access My Courses
  • Courses For Professionals
  • Login
  • Cart
  • My Account

Clair Mellenthin

Child and Family Therapist

  • Services
    • Supervision
    • Play Therapy
    • Therapy – Individual, Family, or Group
    • Toolbox for Therapists
  • Media
    • Book Clair to Speak
  • Events
  • Shop
    • Webinars
      • Intro To Attachment Centered Play Therapy
      • Healing Wounded Hearts
      • Play Therapy Across the Lifespan
      • Power Of Parents in the Playroom
    • Books
  • Contact
    • About Me
    • Schedule An Appointment
  • Blog
    • Newsletter Archives
You are here: Home / Courses / Play Therapy Across the Lifespan: Treating Children, Teens, and Adults

Play Therapy Across the Lifespan: Treating Children, Teens, and Adults

Please log in to access your purchased courses.

Play therapy is not just an effective therapeutic approach for young children, it is also a powerful tool for use with teens and adults as well! Across ages and stages, play therapy helps clients to bring awareness of feelings, make sense of thoughts and emotions, increase understanding of self and others, and improve social and emotional functioning. Participants will engage in a fun, experiential play therapy training to explore how you can apply play therapy techniques with any client, regardless of age or presenting symptom.


We will explore The Therapeutic Powers of Play, developmentally appropriate play, and interventions, how to strengthen self-esteem and increase self-confidence. You will leave with a toolbox filled with play therapy techniques utilizing Sandtray, expressive arts, puppets, role-playing, and guided imagery (to name a few) that you can use immediately with clients of all ages.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe 6 effective play therapy strategies across ages and stages of development
  • Identify how play therapy impacts neuropsychosocial development
  • Conceptualize attachment patterns to strengthen client’s relationships.
  • Develop 2 new techniques to engaging parents in family play therapy.
  • Practice evidence-based play therapy techniques to treat children, teens, and adults
  • Identify effective evidence-based play therapy techniques that can be used immediately with their client populations.

Play Therapy Across the Lifespan

Play Therapy Across the Lifespan

Lessons

Play Therapy Across the Lifespan – Part 1 Play Therapy Across the Lifespan – Part 2 Play Therapy Across the Lifespan – Part 3 Play Therapy Across the Lifespan – Part 4 Take the Quiz – Play Therapy Across the Lifespan

Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S, Director of Child and Adolescence Services, Past President of UAPT. As an experienced play therapist,
and sought after presenter, she frequently appears on local and national media as an expert on child and family issues.