How to Set Up Play Therapy for Success

Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence

From an attachment theory standpoint, structure is an important part of parenting.

It helps children understand relationship boundaries, protects them from possible harm, provides a sense of safety and order, and allows them to understand how actions impact them and others.

How we provide structure is very important - Not too rigid and not too loose. Just right structure is the 🔑to success.

This is also true when providing play therapy to children and their families.

One of the biggest reasons I find that play therapists get lost and frustrated, especially when working with parents is 👇

they have not fully identified their expectations for how their play therapy services are provided and 👇

they didn’t clearly communicate that to parents from the very beginning of play therapy treatment.

This has the potential to create frustration for clients and parents, reduce the effectiveness of your play therapy services, and cause parents to pull their child from play therapy.

What can you do?

How can you set up your play therapy services for success from the very beginning?

Join me for this free weekly podcast, I’ll share with you strategies that I’ve learned over the past three decades working with children and families.

I’ll answer questions that I get asked ALL the time by play therapists about getting better engagement from parents and their children.

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Capítulos

1. How to Set Up Play Therapy for Success (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:00:01)

3. Today's topic (00:01:03)

4. Identifying Expectations (00:07:50)

5. Communicating Expectations (00:10:55)

6. Key questions to ask yourself to help identify your expectations (00:14:09)

7. Recognizing Imposter Syndrome (00:20:02)

8. Establishing Expectations with Parents (00:25:13)

9. Recap of today's discussion (00:31:11)

10. Resources (00:34:11)

11. Outro (00:38:23)