Welcome
Welcome to CE Learning with Maritime Play Therapy Centre.
This site has a variety of continuing ed courses of interest to therapists, Play Therapists or Child and Youth Care Practitioners.
Please click on the course you are interested in and you will be taken to the e commerce site where you can pay for the course and then complete it at your own pace.
If you have any challenges, please email maritimeptc@gmail.com
Available courses
Where does stigma come from? A workshop for therapists
Participants will:
- Reflect on where attitudes about ability are born and cultivated.
- Consider why we celebrate "normal" yet fear differences
- Identify the ways stigma shows up in our practice as therapists
- Identify ways we can be allies to address stigmatizing policies and practices.
Grief and Loss in Foster Parenting
Many foster parent agencies provide training to foster parents This training rarely includes discussion on the intense impact of loss on foster parents themselves or family members.
Learning Outcomes:
#1 Review symptoms of grief and loss and disenfranchised grief
#2 Identify patterns that can be implemented to ensure that all treatment team members are acknowledging the grief experience.
#2 Identify resources foster parents can access to mitigate the grief experience
Becoming the foster parent of an adolescent
Parenting adolescents is a journey for all caregivers as well as the adolescents themselves. Foster Caregivers who do not have a longterm history with their adolescents may feel ill equipped to walk along side them in the journey.
Learning Outcomes:
#1 Define the developmental steps of adolescence.
#2 Practice utilizing a screening tool to help prepare your youth for independence
#3 Identify how the caregiver /teen relationship can be strengthened in the face of expected bumps
Review of the impact of early traumatic experiences on the attachment relationship.
This course reviews how trauma impacts the attachment experience.
Learning Outcomes:
Review attachment styles
Identify how behaviours reflect the early traumatic experience
Review ways to enhance the parent child relationship.
Supporting our biological children
This course reviews the role of the unspoken partner in the foster care dynamic - your child.
Learning Outcomes:
#1 Review the role that biological children sometimes take on in foster families
#2 Consider ways to ensure that the needs of biological children are met.
#3 Identify how to ensure biological children do not experience vicarious trauma.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Parenting
This course digs into the the DSM diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and how it shows up in behaviour.
Learning Outcomes
#1 What is ODD?
#2 Identify how ODD is communicated in behaviour?
#3 identify the impact of ODD on the caregiver / child relationship.
#4 Identify ways to strengthen the attachment relationship.
Advocating for children who have anxiety symptoms.
The world health organization identifies that anxiety is considered one of the most common mental health experiences of children and youth.
This course will:
Learning Outcomes
#1 Identify the different types of anxiety
#2 Match the behaviours that adults observe in children who experience different types of anxiety
#3 Identify plans that can be shared with other members of the treatment team to support children who have anxiety.
#4 Identify strategies that can be implemented in the home milieu to support children who experience anxiety.
Understanding how our experiences impact our parenting as foster parents
All of our experiences (positive and negative) contribute to our ability to be therapeutic caregivers.
Sometimes these experiences get triggered in our work with vulnerable children and youth.
Learning Outcomes
#1 Participants will engage in self-reflective activities that identify past challenges and successes
#2 Participants will identify specific parenting values they have identified that are important to both demonstrate and experience in the familial system
#3 Participants will review ways they can take care of themselves while working with vulnerable children
Helping children move from self harm to managing big feelings.
Self harm strategies can be a way that children, youth and adults manage traumatic experiences.
This short course will assist the caregiver to:
Learning Outcomes
#1 List various self harm strategies that children may exhibit
#2 Identify various self care strategies that children may exhibit.
#3 Review the neurobiology behind self harm
#4 Identify ways that the caregiver can disrupt the self harming cycle
Play Therapy Supervision Group 1
Sept 13, October 11, November 15th, December 6th, January 3rd. 2023
Note the November date is one week later as Theresa is doing EMDR refresher training the week before.
Each group member is required to sign up for Case Presentation in the sign- up area of the learning management system. A case consultation form is provided to structure this presentation. It is the responsibility of the supervise to obtain client consent for any case provided.
Supervision Group Adults/Couples/Families
July 12, August 9, September 6th, October 25th, November 1 6-8 p.m. Atlantic time
Each group member is required to sign up for Case Presentation in the sign- up area of the learning management system. A case consultation form is provided to structure this presentation. It is the responsibility of the supervise to obtain client consent for any case provided.
Supervision group children/ youth / families
July 5, August 2, August 30th, September 27, October 25th 6-8 p.m. Atlantic Time
Each group member is required to sign up for Case Presentation in the sign- up area of the learning management system. A case consultation form is provided to structure this presentation. It is the responsibility of the supervise to obtain client consent for any case provided.
Module 1: Intake, Assessment, Consent and Documentation
This 48 hour online certificate is for newly graduated therapists and counsellors who want to work with children/youth.
At the end of this certificate participants will:
- Review theoretical base of psychotherapeutic counselling
- Review social and emotional development of young people.
- Explore the ethical and professional aspects of working therapeutically with children and adolescents
- Work therapeutically with children and young using the arts and play.
Participants need to have access to internet and a computer to access modules in the learning management system
Module 1: Intake, Assessment, Consent and Documentation
Module 2: The impact of trauma on Attachment styles, child and adolescent development.
This 48 hour online certificate is for newly graduated therapists and counsellors who want to work with children/youth.
At the end of this certificate participants will:
- Review theoretical base of psychotherapeutic counselling
- Review social and emotional development of young people.
- Explore the ethical and professional aspects of working therapeutically with children and adolescents
- Work therapeutically with children and young using the arts and play.
Participants need to have access to internet and a computer to access modules in the learning management system
Module 3: Examine key theoretical perspectives in counselling and psychotherapy for children/youth including the psychodynamic, the humanistic and the neuroscientific
This 48 hour online certificate is for newly graduated therapists and counsellors who want to work with children/youth.
At the end of this certificate participants will:
- Review theoretical base of psychotherapeutic counselling
- Review social and emotional development of young people.
- Explore the ethical and professional aspects of working therapeutically with children and adolescents
- Work therapeutically with children and young using the arts and play.
Participants need to have access to internet and a computer to access modules in the learning management system
Module 4: Working eco-systemically with children's networks and contexts honouring the social location of the child
This 48 hour online certificate is for newly graduated therapists and counsellors who want to work with children/youth.
At the end of this certificate participants will:
- Review theoretical base of psychotherapeutic counselling
- Review social and emotional development of young people.
- Explore the ethical and professional aspects of working therapeutically with children and adolescents
- Work therapeutically with children and young using the arts and play.
Participants need to have access to internet and a computer to access modules in the learning management system
Module 5: Directive and non directive play approaches
This 48 hour online certificate is for newly graduated therapists and counsellors who want to work with children/youth.
At the end of this certificate participants will:
- Review theoretical base of psychotherapeutic counselling
- Review social and emotional development of young people.
- Explore the ethical and professional aspects of working therapeutically with children and adolescents
- Work therapeutically with children and young using the arts and play.
Participants need to have access to internet and a computer to access modules in the learning management system
Module 6: Expressive arts
This 48 hour online certificate is for newly graduated therapists and counsellors who want to work with children/youth.
At the end of this certificate participants will:
- Review theoretical base of psychotherapeutic counselling
- Review social and emotional development of young people.
- Explore the ethical and professional aspects of working therapeutically with children and adolescents
- Work therapeutically with children and young using the arts and play.
Participants need to have access to internet and a computer to access modules in the learning management system
Module 7: Case conceptualization
This 48 hour online certificate is for newly graduated therapists and counsellors who want to work with children/youth.
At the end of this certificate participants will:
- Review theoretical base of psychotherapeutic counselling
- Review social and emotional development of young people.
- Explore the ethical and professional aspects of working therapeutically with children and adolescents
- Work therapeutically with children and young using the arts and play.
Participants need to have access to internet and a computer to access modules in the learning management system
Module 8: Therapist self -reflection
This 48 hour online certificate is for newly graduated therapists and counsellors who want to work with children/youth.
At the end of this certificate participants will:
- Review theoretical base of psychotherapeutic counselling
- Review social and emotional development of young people.
- Explore the ethical and professional aspects of working therapeutically with children and adolescents
- Work therapeutically with children and young using the arts and play.
Participants need to have access to internet and a computer to access modules in the learning management system
Level 1 Sandtray Practitioner Certificate
Sandtray Practitioner Certificate program
“This workshop meets APT’s definition of “Live Webinar”.
LEVEL1 January 9, 16, 23, 30, 2023
This is your introduction to Sandtray. We review history, necessary tools, the protocol to witness a sandtray and practice in dyads. You take on the role of builder and witness.
Describe history of sandtray play therapy.
Discuss necessary sandtray tools in your play therapy kit including minitures that represent the different social locations of builders.
Describe the sandtray witnessing protocol in Play Therapy including how to document sandtrays.
Experience building world while being witnessed by another in sandtray play therapy.
Practice witnessing sandtrays using this play therapy protocol
Discuss polyvagal therapy and how this relates to sandtray practice and experience in play therapy.
8 hours of zoom live
4 hours of reading/ video clips
Level 2 Sandtray Practitioner Certificate
Level II February 6, 13, 20, 27th, 2023
Now that you have learned the Sandtray Protocol we will apply this knowledge to working with individuals across the lifespan, couples, families, and groups. Directive sandtrays will be introduced.
- Practice the sandtray witnessing protocol.
- Describe developmental stages according to Havighurst and how these can be observed in the sandtray.
- Identify miniature’s that would be important to have in your collection to address developmental needs in sandtray play therapy.
- Discuss three phases of LOVE according to Gottman (limerence, building trust, building commitment and loyalty) and how these can be observed in sandtray play therapy.
- Discuss miniatures that a therapist working with couples would want in their collection to support couples in completing directive trays that investigate three phases of love and ATTUNE and how these can be utilized in sandtray play therapy.
- Discuss how to adapt sandtray office space as well as therapist approach to work with families and groups using the sandtray.
L4 Using Play in Genogram Assessment
Genograms have been used since the 1980's to identify family members, strengths, challenges and patterns. Play Miniatures can be utilized with children, adolescents and families to provide a graphic representation of the above.
Using Play Therapy with children who have FASD
Review how FASD is diagnosed in Canada. I