Applied Legacy Reading - Doing Play Therapy: From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change

Title: Doing Play Therapy: From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change Author/Editor: Terry Kottman, PhD, RPT-S™ & Kristin Meany-Walen, PhD, RPT-S™ Pages: ~394 pages Reading Time: ~ 11 hours Paper Time: ~ 2 hours (2–3 pages) Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced Category: Seminal Clinical Theories Total CE’s: 13 APT Non-Contact CE Hours Price: $130 The book is NOT included. 🧠 Course Description This book study guides clinicians through the full arc of the play therapy process: from building the therapeutic relationship to facilitating meaningful, developmentally grounded change. In Doing Play Therapy: From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change, Kottman & Meany-Walen offer a warm, accessible, and richly experiential model rooted in Adlerian Play Therapy, while integrating creative arts approaches, theoretical foundations, and practical skill demonstrations. The text emphasizes: * Building a strong, encouraging, attuned relationship * Understanding lifestyle, beliefs, and the child’s worldview * Using play to generate insight * Facilitating reorientation, responsibility, and new behaviors * Empowering children through encouragement * Integrating expressive arts, metaphor, movement, and symbolism * Applying a systematic, phased model to real clinical cases Participants will learn not only “what” to do in the playroom, but “why’ bridging intuition with conceptual clarity and clinical intentionality. Through case examples, sample dialogues, and structured interventions, clinicians will strengthen their theoretical grounding, enhance relationship-building skills, and expand their creative therapeutic toolkit. ***All APT Non-Contact CE Self-Paced Book Studies must be completed within 60 days of registration to receive a certificate.