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Tweens, Teens, Twenties, and Beyond. 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.
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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.
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
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
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
Tween Techniques • Finish a scribble • Spaghetti Brain • Balloons!! Compliments to Techniques- • Allow for leadership • Allow decision making (even if it is the wrong one)
Teens Developmental Challenges and Goals How to incorporate Play Using Developmentally Appropriate Play Techniques
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,
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
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
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
Twenties & Beyond
Twenties and Beyond • Developmental Tasks • Introducing and using play • Benefits of Play beyond childhood • Activities
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
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
Twenties and Beyond- Benefits of Play • Dimensia • Depression • Anxiety • Expression of nonverbal concepts • Expression of Mental Health concerns originating before verbal skills
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
Thanks! any questions ? Email me! dianna.sawyers17@gmail.com