Key insights

• ⚖️ Adlerian play therapy focuses on creating an equal relationship with the child and believing in their capacity to change.
• 🔄 The therapy involves four phases: creating a safe and equal relationship and investigating the child's unique lifestyle.
• 🔍 Exploring the principles of play therapy and aligning theories with your worldview is an integral part of the therapy process.
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Involving parents in the therapy process and shifting from child-centered to reorientation are key aspects of Adlerian play therapy.
• 📈 Developing a treatment plan that identifies assets, sets change goals, and measures progress across different lifestyle categories is crucial.
• 🔑 Understanding and prioritizing a child's life tasks for effective interventions is essential in Adlerian play therapy.
• 🎓 Adlerian play therapy training is available at the UCF Center for play therapy training and research, providing a customized approach for each child's needs.

Q&A

• Where can one receive training in Adlerian play therapy?

  Training in Adlerian play therapy is available at the UCF Center for Play Therapy Training and Research.

• What is the importance of understanding a child's life tasks in play therapy?

  Understanding a child's life tasks and prioritizing interventions can lead to significant positive changes in their life. A customized approach to each child's needs is crucial for effective play therapy.

• How does Adlerian play therapy involve parents in the process?

  Adlerian play therapy emphasizes the involvement of parents in the therapy process, highlighting the development of a treatment plan that focuses on identifying assets, setting goals for change, strategizing, and measuring progress across different lifestyle categories.

• What principles are involved in developing a treatment plan in play therapy?

  Developing a treatment plan in play therapy involves exploring the principles of play therapy, choosing a theory that aligns with your worldview, and tailoring the treatment plan to fit the child's needs. It also involves gaining insight through non-authoritarian sharing in phase 3 of therapy.

• What are the four phases of Adlerian play therapy?

  The four phases of Adlerian play therapy are: creating a safe and equal relationship, sharing power, exploring the child's unique lifestyle, and reorientation and re-education.

• What is Adlerian play therapy?

  Adlerian play therapy focuses on creating an equal relationship with the child, believing in their capacity to change, and working collaboratively to achieve interdependence. It involves four phases, starting with creating a safe and equal relationship, followed by investigating the child's lifestyle.

• 00:00 Dr. Jelena Dillman Taylor explains Adlerian play therapy, focusing on building an egalitarian relationship and helping children modify their beliefs. The therapy occurs across four phases, emphasizing the child's subjective worldview. Jackie Flynn discusses her positive experience in Dr. Taylor's classes.
• 06:33 Adlerian play therapy focuses on creating an equal relationship with the child, believing in their capacity to change, and working collaboratively to achieve interdependence. It involves four phases, starting with creating a safe and equal relationship, followed by investigating the child's lifestyle.
• 12:41 Exploring the principles of play therapy, choosing a theory that fits with your worldview, developing a treatment plan tailored to the child's needs, and gaining insight through non-authoritarian sharing in phase 3 of therapy.
• 18:25 Discussing the use of meta communication and enlarging the meaning in child-centered play therapy. Exploring the shift from child-centered to reorientation and parent consultation in play therapy. Emphasizing the involvement of parents in the therapy process.
• 24:16 The therapist emphasizes the importance of involving parents in the treatment process and highlights the development of a treatment plan that focuses on identifying assets, setting goals for change, strategizing, and measuring progress across different lifestyle categories.
• 30:13 Understanding a child's life tasks and prioritizing interventions can lead to significant positive changes in their life. Customized approach to each child's needs is crucial. Training in Larry and play therapy is available at the UCF Center for play therapy training and research.