Play Therapy Developmental Journey Map

500 East Davie Street,Raleigh NC 27601

30 September, 2022

Description

For the first time, Karen Wheeler will be presenting The Play Therapy Developmental Journey Map. This Map provides a framework for understanding and explaining the play content, themes, and developmental tasks of play sessions. This is a culmination of over two decades as a play therapist. This in-person two-day training will utilize experiential play activities, videos of play sessions and pictures of play session content to demonstrate the client’s progress in development of what Viola Brody (Developmental Play) referred to as the “I” and Carl Jung (Jungian Play) called the “Self”. Participants will understand and learn how to utilize the map to better conceptualize and provide treatment to their play therapy clients. (APT Historically Significant Theories: Developmental Play & Jungian Play) ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Karen Wheeler, LCSW, RPT-S, CST-T Karen Wheeler specializes in working with attachment disordered children and their families. She has presented at national and state conferences and developed the use of water and mud trays as a developmental play/sand process. In her 22 years as an RPT-S, she was NCAPT president, a national APT committee member and an APT Leadership Academy graduate. She has trained at the Theraplay Institute in Chicago and with Dr. Viola Brody, author of "The Dialogue of Touch". Ms. Wheeler is semi-retired, provides distance clinical supervision and lives in Albuquerque, NM.