Evaluating the impact of child-centered play therapy training.

Kao, Shu Chen; Landreth, Garry L.

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“…Thus, there were 63 questions on the instrument and participants took about 20 min to finish the survey. (Kao & Landreth, 1997). Criterion validity was originally tested with correlation of scores to number of graduate play therapy courses taken, and the correlations were: total scale .70 (P < .0001), attitude scale .34 (P < .0001), knowledge scale .71 (P < .0001), and skill scale .68 (P < .0001).…”

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Intensive Play Therapy Training for Rural Mental Health Counselors

Carnes‐Holt

Weatherford

2012

The Family Journal

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Play therapy can be an effective, integrative, and best practices intervention for work with children and families. Although play therapy is becoming a significant part of counselor education training programs, many real-world practitioners have not had training and cannot access continuing education. This lack of training access is particularly evident in rural settings. This brief study demonstrates that an intense play therapy workshop for rural mental health workers can have a significant impact on the knowledge and skills of the counseling professionals. Following a 2-day play therapy training session specifically designed for mental health professionals in rural areas, the levels of play therapy knowledge and skills showed statistically significant increases from pretraining to the end of the second day. The findings show that an intense play therapy workshop for rural mental health workers can have a significant impact on the knowledge and skills in play therapy.

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Intensive Play Therapy Training for Rural Mental Health Counselors

Carnes‐Holt

Weatherford

2012

The Family Journal

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“…They included appreciation of their trainer, citing her as someone who was easy to be with and non-directive, willing to share knowledge, and offering good experience, knowledge, and skills to the training. The findings in Kao and Landreth (1997) noted that instructors' personal teaching style can contribute to the effectiveness of their teaching.…”

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“…Hence, more play therapists are needed to meet the needs of child clients (Porter, Hernandez-Reif, & Jessee, 2009). Moreover, many researchers have addressed the effectiveness of Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) training in helping play therapists improve their attitude, knowledge, and skills (Homeyer & Rae, 1999;Hunt, 2006;Kagan & Landreth, 2009;Kao & Chang, 2007;Kao & Landreth, 1997;Lindo et al, 2012;Shen, 2002;Shen & Herr, 2003). Their findings have shown positive impacts on the counseling profession and children with difficulties.…”

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The Effectiveness of Child-Centered Play Therapy Training in Malaysia

Johari¹,

Bruce²,

Amat³

2014

ASS

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Play therapy in Malaysia is still in the early stages of development. This study investigated the effectiveness of Child-Centered Play Therapy by conducting 3-day training sessions in different part of Malaysia for a total of 116 participants including mental health students and practitioners. Four research questions guided this study in exploring the differences on the three subscales: attitude, knowledge, and skills in play therapy. A repeated measure design was used for the pre-test and post-test instruments. Results indicated statistically significantly differences between pre and post tests on the all subscales. In comparing students and practitioners, result indicated no statistically significantly differences for all subscales on the pre and post tests. However, there was a statistically significantly difference between participants with and without previous play therapy experiences on the knowledge and skills subscales for the pre and post tests. In addition, a correlation design show there was statistical significance between the relationships among the subscales. For future research, a design incorporating random assignment and a control group as well as differencing lengths of training session are planned.

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“…Kao and Landreth (1997) have recommended the following guidelines for CCPT preparation: (a) improving knowledge of theory and practice of play therapy, (b) improving confidence in applying skills that are required for play therapy, and (c) developing a set of beliefs and attitudes that are conducive to working with children. When students enter play therapy preparation, they have varying levels of these personal and professional dispositions.…”

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Critical incidents in learning child-centered play therapy: Implications for teaching and supervision.

Smith–Adcock¹,

Shin²,

Pereira³

2015

International Journal of Play Therapy

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The purpose of this qualitative study is to describe critical incidents in child-centered play therapy (CCPT) preparation. Students learning to use play in counseling often experience unexpected events, or critical incidents. The way they manage these critical incidents can bring new perspectives on attitudes toward children, their knowledge and skills using play in counseling, and on emerging professional identities as play therapists. The findings of this qualitative study describe how student counselors perceive critical incidents and reflect on them in learning play therapy. The implications for using critical incidents methods in teaching play therapy and clinical supervision are discussed.

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Evaluating the impact of child-centered play therapy training.

Cited by 38 publications

References 12 publications

Intensive Play Therapy Training for Rural Mental Health Counselors

Intensive Play Therapy Training for Rural Mental Health Counselors

The Effectiveness of Child-Centered Play Therapy Training in Malaysia

Critical incidents in learning child-centered play therapy: Implications for teaching and supervision.

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