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I hope that you are well. Our TPS Certificate course starting online in January is now fully booked so we have set new dates for another live online course starting in February 2024. We have also set dates for the first in person version of the year for those of you who want to complete the training in person. The CTC Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate course will start in person in Kilcock Co. Kildare in February 2024. Our TPS Certificate course is extremely popular, spaces generally fill very quickly so if you want to join us in February you best apply soon!
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CTC’s Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate 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. On successful completion of our Therapeutic Play Skills training students receive the Children ‘s Therapy Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills. Please see below for full details. Over half of the spaces have filled already so if you do want to join is in January now is the time to apply!
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CTC’s Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills
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Starting IN PERSON in Kilcock February 10th 2024
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Starting Live Online February 17th 2024
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CTC’s Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills is offered on a part-time basis and equips participants with the relevant knowledge, skill and competencies to plan, deliver and evaluate both group and individual play based interventions.. Participants engage in creative activities that enhance personal development, develop insight and awareness, and contribute to understanding, and meeting, the needs of all children including those living in adverse circumstances. Course content includes coverage of many therapeutic play interventions, including creative visualisation, interactive play, use of puppets and creative storytelling, skills to support self-directed play and running groups for personal and social development. Directive and non-directive therapeutic approaches are addressed.
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This programme aims to enhance the professional practice of participants by building on core skills to work creatively and play effectively with children, adolescents, and sometimes adults, with reference to their age, stage of development, and current needs and priorities. We aim to enhance your capacity to incorporate play, and creative interventions to support holistic development, build resiliency, and address challenges within the role you hold by virtue of your current career in education, social care, childcare, or any area connected with health and wellbeing. The programme delves deeply into the impact of play in:
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· promoting positive mental health;
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· facilitating social and emotional development,
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· overcoming struggles and stressful experiences; and
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Participants will engage in theoretical learning and experiential creative activities. Assessment is based on demonstration of achievement of the required learning outcomes through activity based tasks.
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This programme is suitable for those who:
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- Have a particular interest in the therapeutic powers of play, and creative interventions, and wish to acquire skills to facilitate children, adolescents, and/or adults to overcome negative influences and circumstances in their lives, and facilitate them in achieving their potential.
- Wish to further their own knowledge and understanding of what play is; how it supports children’s social and emotional development; and learn more about the influences of the environment on this.
- Wish to enhance a professional career in working with people in a range of settings.
- Wish to further their own knowledge and understanding of play, and creative interventions, and associated developmental, educational and therapeutic applications.
- Would like to upskill to enhance employment prospects and/or job satisfaction and promotion opportunities
This award (CTC’s Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills) will be of interest to a range of healthcare, social care, and education professionals who wish to incorporate the use of play and creativity into their practice with adults, adolescents or children. This includes teachers, childcare workers, playworkers, social workers, counsellors, psychotherapists, expressive arts therapists, and others working in any area connected with health and wellbeing, whose professional life brings them into regular contact with people, including those considered to be vulnerable and at risk/in crisis.
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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 – Professional Practice
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Unit 2 – Understanding Play
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Unit 3 – Plan for and Support Self-directed Play
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Unit 4 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Self-directed play
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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 – Working with Groups for Personal and Social Development
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Unit 8 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Therapeutic Storytelling
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Unit 9 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Therapeutic Use of Puppets
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Applications are accepted by letter/email giving details of the applicant’s name, address, email and phone numbers, educational background, current employment, and reasons for wishing to complete the course.
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Applicants residing in Ireland must indicate if they have recently been Garda vetted and if they have access to children in a suitable work (paid or voluntary) setting within which they could complete play sessions. If recent Garda Vetting is not in place, this must be secured in accordance with the policies in place in the practice setting.
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Email application to ctcsiobhan@gmail.com. We look forward to welcoming more students to our expanding CTC crew!
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Check out our latest course dates
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