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ower f lay P P O NACADA National Conference 2017 October 2017 “It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in be- ing creative the individual discovers the self” (Winnicott, 1971, p. 54). What is Play erapy? Research suggests that “play therapy is effective mental health approach regardless of age, gender, or nature of the problem” (Association for Play erapy, 2017). While play is used in counseling, it can be utilized in other fields such as advising, education, and business. Most people use conversation as the means by which they express themselves and their needs. However, play provides an additional layer when conversation is not enough to help students meet their needs. •Play provides relief, support, understanding, and aids in coping with challenges •Play helps to articulate needs and experiences How Does Play Work? Research shows improvements in areas such as academic performance, social skills, healthier attachments to others and self-concept Helps in reducing problems related to: •Disruptive behav- iors •Aggression •ADD/ADHD •Emotional disor- ders •Anxiety •Relationship stress •Grief and loss •Trauma •Developmental issues Helps with mind/body integration: Play therapy utilizes the whole brain. e leſt side is more analytical and the right side is more creative. Because of this, play can work with any student. Play is a pleasant di- version thus effecting the body by: •Taking fuller breaths •Digestive process relaxes •Eases cardiac tension •Muscle tension is eased •Reduces fatigue Table of Contents: What is Play erapy? How Does Play Work? Types of Play erapy Multicultural Components Why play with Emerging Adults? Building Block Activity Dough Activity House Drawing Contact Us Samantha Booker, Ph.D., NCC, LPC.; Allison Ewing-Cooper, Ph.D.; Meredith V. Parker, M.S., M.A.
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ower f layP PO NACADA National Conference 2017
October 2017
“It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in be-ing creative the individual discovers the self ” (Winnicott, 1971, p. 54).
What is Play Therapy?Research suggests that “play therapy is effective mental health approach regardless of age, gender, or nature of the problem” (Association for Play Therapy, 2017).While play is used in counseling, it can be utilized in other fields such as advising, education, and business.Most people use conversation as the means by which they express themselves and their needs. However, play provides an additional layer when conversation is not enough to help students meet their needs.•Play provides relief, support, understanding, andaids in coping with challenges•Play helps to articulate needs and experiences
How Does Play Work?Research shows improvements in areas such as academic performance, social skills, healthier attachments to others and self-concept Helps in reducing problems related to:•Disruptive behav-iors•Aggression•ADD/ADHD•Emotional disor-ders•Anxiety•Relationship stress•Grief and loss•Trauma•Developmental issues
Helps with mind/body integration:Play therapy utilizes the whole brain. The left side is more analytical and the right side is more creative.
Because of this, play can work with any student.Play is a pleasant di-version thus effecting the body by:•Taking fuller breaths•Digestive processrelaxes•Eases cardiac tension
•Muscle tension is eased•Reduces fatigue
Table of Contents:
What is Play Therapy?
How Does Play Work?
Types of Play Therapy
Multicultural Components
Why play with Emerging Adults?
Building Block Activity
Dough Activity
House Drawing
Contact Us
Samantha Booker, Ph.D., NCC, LPC.; Allison Ewing-Cooper, Ph.D.; Meredith V. Parker, M.S., M.A.
Types of Play TherapyFor adults, play continues as an important vehicle because it fosters numerous adaptive behaviors including creativity, role rehearsal and mind/body integration.
Creativity:•Play•Humor•Dramatizing•Moving•Imagining•Listening•Expressing
Role Rehearsal:How many of us have thought about or had conver-sations aloud with ourselves in anticipation of talking with someone else?•Trying on clothes and look-ing in the mirror•Dress up at Halloween
Objects related to play have been found in archeological digs around the world. The only thing that has changed over time is how we perceive and use play. The current problem is that play is being lost because of the need to score well on standard-ized tests; our inner drive to color outside the lines must be kept in check.
Why Play With Emerging AdultsFor adults, play increases:•Self esteem•Increased capacity for empathy and intimacy•Affirming•Stress reliever•Invites genuine, rather than narrow, cognitive responsesAdults become so wrapped up in play that filters are dropped and apprehen-sion is decreased.
Multicultural Components
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Lego DuckInstructions: Take the Lego blocks out of your activity box. Construct a duck using the blocks provided and your imagination to the best of your ability.
There are many possible outcomes. Not one duck is the same. Talk to the student advisee about their rational for building their duck in that manner.
Dough Activity
Conference Instructions: Find a partner you don’t know. Take the Play-Doh out of your box. Talk to you partner about the following: Why are you in the advising profes-sion? How did you end up at NACADA?Discussion: How many of you played with the play-doh while talking to each other? Was it helpful?
Alternative Instructions: Leave Play-Doh out on your desk to give students the option of playing with it if the student feels like it will benefit the advising session. Students may or may not use the Play-Doh but having it out lets the students know they can use it at any time during the session.
Some people need to focus their energy while engag-ing in conversation and by allowing the Play-doh to be visible may help students talk through some challenging conversations.
House Drawing
House interpretations are loosely based on research and on the symbolic meaning of the aspects of the house. They should hopefully be nurturing places with normal levels of de-tail and normal size. Too little and the client may reject family life; too big and they may be overwhelmed by it.
Instructions: Use the crayons provided to draw a house to the best of your ability.
Thank you for your particpation. We hope you enjoyed the activities presented.
For more information about play therapy please feel free to contact Dr. Samantha Booker at [email protected].
For more inofmration about Emerging Adulthood, please feel free to conatct Dr. Allison Ewing-Cooper at [email protected].
For more infomration about the software used or the design elements, please feel free to conatct Meredith V. Parker at [email protected].
Contact Us
Windows, doors, and sidewalks are all ways that others enter or see into the house, so they relate to openness, willingness to interact with others, and ideas about the environment. Thus, shades, shutters, bars, curtains, and long and winding sidewalks indicate some unwillingness to reveal much about yourself (think about expression like windows to the soul or the door to the mind). Cars could be signs of visitors coming
or people in the home leaving. Lights could be signs to welcome visitors or reveal prowlers. Open doors or many windows could mean strong needs to engage others. Big windows, especially in the bathroom, could be exhibitionistic desires.
People with psychosis tend to show groundlines (their need for grounding), clear visions of the insides of the house (they believe their thoughts and mind are open to view by others), strange angles (like their strange thought processes), or a house on the verge of a collapse (like their ego).
Lines and walls represent boundaries and strengths of the ego, thus weak lines in the structure of the house are weaknesses in the ego, while strong lines are problems with anxiety and a need to reinforce boundaries.
The roof symbolizes the fantasy life, and extra attention to it can indicate extra attention to fantasy and ideation, while incomplete, tiny, or burning roofs can indicate avoidance of overpowering and frightening fantasies (think about fears of ghosts in the attic - these are based on the association for us).
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