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Tweens, Teens, Twenties, and Beyond

This workshop focuses on utilizing play therapy techniques with tweens to young adults. Learn how to adapt strategies, create a welcoming environment, and address developmental goals and challenges across different age groups. Explore the benefits of play therapy in promoting physical, social, and psychological well-being. Gain insights into incorporating play techniques in therapy sessions and fostering identity development. Enhance your skills in promoting bio-psycho-social health through interactive play activities. Join us to explore the transformative power of play therapy in supporting the developmental journey from tweens to adulthood!

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Tweens, Teens, Twenties, and Beyond

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  1. Tweens, Teens, Twenties, and Beyond

  2. Objectives • Learn strategies for utilizing play therapy techniques with adolescents and adults • Identify methods of adapting techniques to fit the client, both developmentally and chronological age. • Identify methods to create a welcoming play therapy environment for the adolescent or adult.

  3. Tweens

  4. Tweens- Developemtnal Goals and Challenges BioPhyscial • Improvements in coordination, agility, and smoothness of motion • Motor and Fine Motor Development • Environmental Hazards- poverty, lack of food, lack of opportunities for movement competence Social • Role Taking- the ability to understand happenings and idea from another person’s perscective • Development of Interpersonal awareness • Importance of Group Activities • Family and Community Relations

  5. Tweens- Developemtnal Goals and Challenges Pscyhological • Information Processing and Intention-Cue Detection • Cognitived Changes • More Individuated, Less Global, Less Egocentric • Refining Language Skills • use of metaphors • verbal Control (Vygotsky and Luria) • Others-external • Self-External • Self-Internal • Challenges • Self-Concept • Self-Worth • Emotional Compotence-expression, experiencing, understanding emotions

  6. Tweens- In The Playroom Games • Introducing new games • Adapting early childhood games Promoting Industry • Seeking approval through demonstrations of mastery • Pride in accomplishments Promoting BioPsychoSocial Health • Motor Development • Cognitive and Social Changes

  7. Tween Techniques • Finish a scribble • Spaghetti Brain • Balloons!! Compliments to Techniques- • Allow for leadership • Allow decision making (even if it is the wrong one)

  8. Tweens

  9. Teens

  10. Teens Developmental Challenges and Goals How to incorporate Play Using Developmentally Appropriate Play Techniques

  11. Teens- Developmental Challenges and Goals BioPhysical- • Puberty • Increased caloric need • Sleep Hygiene • Brain Development • Myelination • Growth in gray matter • Growth of Amygdala Social- • Family- Autonomy, parent-teen conflict, Parent-teen attachment • Peer Relationships • Role of Employment and extra Curricular activities • Risks- pregnancy, social relationships, drug use/abuse,

  12. Teens- Developmental Challenges and Goals Psychological • Cognitive Development • Abstract thinking • Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning • Moral Development • Social Cognition/Regulation • Challenges • Behavioral Concerns- Conduct disorder, Truancy • Self-Harm and Cutting

  13. Teens- Incorporating Play Opportunities for play, both in the external world and inside the playroom allow for fluid movement along the developmental spectrum Fostering Identity and Resolving Identity Crisis Managing expectations- both yours and theirs

  14. Teens- Techniques • Music!! • Playlist of Me • Inside/Outside Activities-- • Envelope, Box, Shoe • Social Media Profile • Text Message • Create a Meme • Collage • Photo Scavenger Hunt • Don’t Forget the Classics- Uno, Backgammon, Cards

  15. Teens- Techniques

  16. TEENS- Text Message

  17. Twenties & Beyond

  18. Twenties and Beyond • Developmental Tasks • Introducing and using play • Benefits of Play beyond childhood • Activities

  19. Twenties and Beyond- Developmental Tasks • Intimacy, Generativitiy, Ego Inegrity • Biophysical-maintainence of physical health, Reproduction and reproductive health, End of life • Social-Career and Family development, Social Networks, Faith, Community • Psychological-Formal and Post-Formal thought, moral development, • Risks- Suicide, Severe Mental Illness, Midlife Crisis, Addiction, Interpersonal Violence

  20. Twenties and Beyond- Introducing Play • Play as an addition to current interventions • One Session vs. Multiple Sessions • Using life cycle to help introduce and guide play based interventions

  21. Twenties and Beyond- Benefits of Play • Dimensia • Depression • Anxiety • Expression of nonverbal concepts • Expression of Mental Health concerns originating before verbal skills

  22. Twenties and Beyond- Activities • Things to Consider • Embrace symbolisim and abstract thought • Allow for Between Session work • Everyone can Draw/create • Passport • In/Out of my Control • Past, Present, Future • Shield of _____ • Family Crest • Circle/Wheel of ______ • Thought Catcher/Dream Catcher

  23. Activities

  24. Thanks! any questions ? Email me! dianna.sawyers17@gmail.com

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