Foster Care Training

This course is for therapists, counselors, social workers, and other service providers who are interested in learning how to apply directive and nondirective play therapy techniques and work with elementary aged clients and families in the child welfare or probation systems. This training is a continuation of the intro to directive and nondirective play and helps providers go beyond the basics and takes a step deeper into understanding and implementing play interventions. The aim for this training is to provide participants with experiential activities in order to provide effective play-based interventions and how to process them with youth and families in the child welfare and probation systems.