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I hope you are well. We are currently filling the final places on our upcoming Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate starting in Mountmellick on 1st October 2022. This will be the final in person Therapeutic Play Skills training of the year. We have a couple of live online versions coming up too!
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This exciting, experiential training is a fantastic course for professionals working with children, or parents/carers, interested in developing new skills to make more therapeutic use of play within their current professional role. It is also ideal foundation level training for anyone considering applying for our MA course.
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Children’s Therapy Centre
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Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate
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Mountmellick, Co Laois Starting 1st October 2022
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Therapeutic Play Skills is a Level 6 Minor Award (6N4705) offered on a part time, blended learning basis which will equip the learner with the relevant knowledge, skill and competence to plan, deliver and evaluate both group and individual play-based interventions. It is an experientially based learning programme with an additional online component. Participants will engage in creative activities that will enhance personal development, develop insight and awareness, and contribute to understanding, and meeting, the needs of all children including those living in adverse circumstances. Directive and non-directive therapeutic approaches will be addressed.
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- Equip participants with skills to plan and deliver, individual and group, developmentally appropriate play interventions with children and young people;
- Enable learners to focus on meeting children’s specific needs and facilitate therapeutic interventions in the context of their holistic development using play;
- Enable participants to use play as a therapeutic and developmental medium in a wide range of settings including educational/learning, residential and day care, recreational and hospital;
- Equip the learner with the knowledge, skill and competence to use play and its developmental, educational and therapeutic applications.
This programme is suitable for those who:
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- Have a particular interest in the therapeutic powers of play and wish to acquire skills to facilitate children and young people to overcome negative influences and circumstances in their lives.
- Wish to attain a recognized qualification and embark on, or enhance, a professional career in working with children in a range of settings.
- Wish to further their own knowledge and understanding of play and its developmental, educational and therapeutic applications.
- Would like to upskill to enhance employment prospects and/or job satisfaction and promotion opportunities.
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This award will also be of interest to holders of the Certificate in Early Childhood Care and Education and to others including teachers, therapists, social workers etc whose professional life brings them into regular contact with at-risk children and children in crisis. It is also suitable for a broad range of childcare staff in community based or residential settings.
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To access this programme learners should have reached the standards of knowledge, skills and competence associated with level 5 on the National Framework of Qualifications. This may have been achieved through a formal qualification or through relevant life and work experiences.
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Cost: €680 (Payment plan options available on request)
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Unit 1 – Play, Child Development, and Service Provision
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Unit 2 – Plan for and Support Self-directed Play
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Unit 3 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Non-Directive Play Skills
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Unit 4 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Therapeutic Storytelling
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Unit 5 – Planning and implementing Play Interventions: Creative Visualization
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Unit 6 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Interactive Play
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Unit 7 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Therapeutic Use of Puppets
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Unit 8 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Medical Play
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Unit 9 – Working with Groups for Personal and Social Development
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Unit 10 – Professional Practice
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On completion of the programme and the attainment of 15 credits the learner will be awarded a Level 6 component certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills. This can be used as a component of the Level 6 Major Award in Early Childhood Care and Education (6M2007) or other suitable Major Awards.
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Dates: This course will run on 7 weekend dates beginning 1st October 2022. Start time is 10am each day and usual finish time is 5pm.
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Course Dates: 1st and 2nd of October, 22nd and 23rd of October, 12th November, 3rd and 4th of December, assignments due mid January.
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Venue: Listening Tree Play Therapy Centre, Mountmellick Development Association, Irishtown, Mountmellick, Co Laois
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Online: Each learner will have access to the course online component for a three-month period.
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Monique McEvoy M.I.A.H.I.P., S.I.A.P.T.P. I.C.P., E.C.I.P. Monique has an MA in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy with a specialisation in Play Therapy, BA in Dance Movement Therapy and a Diploma in Creative Supervision. Monique works as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist specialising in the field of trauma and abuse. Monique is founder of the Listening Tree Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Centre, and a Trainer for CTC, Children's Therapy Centre. Monique has worked for over 25 years supporting children, families and professionals.
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Applications are accepted by email giving details of the applicants name, address, email and phone numbers, educational background, current employment, and reasons for wishing to complete the course.
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Successful applicants may need to be garda vetted prior to completing practical assignments in an early years, education or healthcare setting. Please indicate if you have already been Garda vetted and if you have access to children in a suitable work (paid or voluntary) setting within which you could complete play sessions.
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Email application to ctcsiobhan@gmail.com
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I hope some of you can join us for this incredible training!
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Check out our latest course dates
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