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Ethical Considerations When Doing Play Therapy With Minors In a High Conflict Divorce
April 14, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
$50.00 – $75.00
Ethical Considerations When Doing Play Therapy With Minors In a High Conflict Divorce
Presented by: Sarah Stroup, LMFT, RPT-S™ and Maggi Leavitt, LMFT, RPT-S™– Founders of Monarch Training Center
Live in person and online!!!
April, 14, 2023
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
181 East 5600 South, Murray, UT 84123 – or online
We are doing both online and in-person options. Please note the CE options below.
For those attending live – 3 Direct Contact CE’s from APT* – Participant may choose to apply this training toward requirement for the RPT (TM) credential: Play Therapy Ethics, Play Therapy Special Topics, or Applicant’s Choice
For those attending online – 3 Non-Contact CE’s from APT* – Participant may choose to apply this training toward requirement for the RPT (TM) credential: Play Therapy Ethics, Play Therapy Special Topics, or Applicant’s Choice
contact utahplaytherapy@gmail.com for more info
Description:
Working with kids when the parents are divorced or divorcing can be intimidating; especially if the co-parenting relationship is high conflict. Learn how to identify a high-conflict divorce, understand the ethical implications, manage your ethical and legal liability, all while providing excellent therapeutic care through play therapy. In this engaging, collaborative workshop, we’ll be giving participants all the tools they need to identify legal resources, create policies and procedures, implement best practice, and know where to find other resources so play therapists can feel confident with the intensity that sometimes comes with divorced parents. This course does not cover considerations for those who are wanting to work with custody evaluations or reunification cases.
Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced-Ethical and legal issues come up for all clinicians, regardless of experience level. This workshop is intended to provide information for all experience levels to assess how they currently manage their ethical risk in regards to providing play therapy for kids whose parents are divorcing or are divorced.
This workshop helps participants demonstrate relationship and rapport building skills through the setting of boundaries. They will learn to assess various aspects of the child’s system and the impact it has on the play therapy process.
This workshop helps participants evaluate and adjust play therapy practices to meet state and discipline ethical guidelines and codes. It also helps play therapists identify their professional scope of competence in play therapy and how to integrate play therapy specific consultation.
Objectives:
- Identify different types of divorce that you may see as a play therapist
- Develop resources and strategies to mitigate ethical and legal risks that impact your play therapy practice
- Demonstrate knowledge of scope of practice as it relates to being a play therapist that works with minors involved in divorce
- Identify ethical and legal considerations as it relates to play therapy
Hourly Breakdown:
- Registration/Check-In: 12:40-1:00
- Ethical considerations
- Break: 2:30-2:45
- Continuation of considerations/Interventions to make your practice safe: 2:45-4:00
- Check Out/CE Certificate Instructions: 4:00
Registration Fee:
UAPT Members $50.00
Non-UAPT $75.00
Students $50.00
About the presenters:
Sarah Stroup is a licensed marriage and family therapist and Registered Play Therapist™ supervisor. She has a group practice, Monarch Family Counseling, with locations in Lehi, Herriman, and South Jordan. Monarch Family Counseling offers play therapy supervision and is an approved APT continuing education provider for the Monarch Training Center.
Sarah works with people throughout their lifespan to help them achieve the best version of themselves. She has a passion for working with kids/teens who need a safe place to process big feelings and learn to cope with them, couples who are looking to reconnect and reignite their relationship, trauma-including betrayal, attachment, and women who need space to take care of their own mental health needs. She is especially passionate about attachment and helping people find the right relationships they need to grow. She utilizes empirically supported modalities such as EMDR, experiential therapy, sand tray therapy, and CBT.
Maggi Leavitt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Play Therapist™ – Supervisor. She earned Bachelors in family studies and a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Argosy University. Maggi owns Yellow Leaf Counseling where she primarily works with children and teens. Maggi Maggi is also a co-owner of Monarch Training Center where she provides trainings and RPT Supervision.
Her specialties include play therapy, trauma, attachment issues, depression and anxiety. She has speciality trainings in Autplay, EMDR, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy. She is passionate about helping others see their full potential and is a huge fan of Brene Brown’s work.
Maggi loves being outdoors and traveling. She loves being a wife and mom and has recently taken up the hobby of knitting which helped her survive doing telehealth during COVID-19. Now everyone who knows her ends up with a knitted blanket!
Maggi and Sarah met in graduate school and have been best friends since. They created Monarch Training Center to help encourage and train other therapist in play therapy. They love what they do and try to include fun and interactive trainings.
You can find a list of upcoming and recorded trainings at www.monarchtrainingcenter.com.
contact utahplaytherapy@gmail.com for more info
APT Approved Provider #98-036
UAPT Cancellation Policy
Registration cancellations must be submitted to UAPT in writing. The Conference fees, minus a $75 administrative charge, will be refunded only if the request is postmarked, or emailed to utahplaytherapy@gmail.com, 30 days prior to the conference or workshop. Registration refunds will not be made within 30 days prior to the conference or workshop. No refunds will be given to parties who register but do not attend. Registrations may be transferred to another person without penalty only if original registrant notifies UAPT.
UAPT reserves the right to cancel this conference in the event of unforeseen circumstances. If such occurs, UAPT will attempt to notify registrants at least 10 calendar days prior to the conference and refund all registration, workshop, continuing education fees.