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    Mar 28, 2024  
Missouri Baptist University 2019-2020 Graduate Bulletin 
    
Missouri Baptist University 2019-2020 Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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COUN 6103 - Introduction to Play Therapy


Semester Hours: Three
Introduction to Play Therapy is a course taught through experiential, dyadic, dialectic and lecture methods to provide knowledge and skill competencies to facilitate play therapy as a therapeutic intervention for children and families. This course provides students with the philosophical basis of play therapy, including a review of the history of play therapy, and how to develop a relationship with a child through child-centered, prescriptive, Adlerian, and Ecosystemic theoretical frameworks. The course is an introduction to various theoretical applications and play therapy best practices. Students will become familiar with play therapy skills, the purpose and application goals of play therapy, therapeutic stages and themes, ethical issues, cross cultural/diversity implications, basic developmental and neurological implications, treatment planning in play therapy including development of treatment goals and assessment of treatment progress and applications to a variety of populations and therapeutic contexts.



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