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This training is not sponsored by the Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency
4 Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practices CEs
Children learn through play and rehearsal of their immediate surroundings. While this helps them learn, play can also help heal children who have been through difficult and traumatic events. Play allows children to engage in the rehearsal of their immediate surroundings, recall recent events and transfer events from short-term to long-term memory (Hamilton, Reas, & Mansfield, 2017; Narimani, Soleymani, Zahed, & Abolghasemi, 2014). Specifically, child-centered play therapy (CCPT) provides children with the unique opportunity to access skills, powers, and resources in the support of a skilled clinician so that they can re-write their own story.
Clinicians equipped with the ability to follow their client’s lead, guided by CCPT principles, also need appropriate toys. Therefore, therapy playrooms should be stocked with superheroes, including superheroines, to encourage children’s expressions of their normal exterior shells, as well as their hidden inner strengths.
This workshop will lay the foundation for the selection, usage, and potential therapeutic interpretations of superheroes from a CCPT framework. Characters such as the Black Panther, Supergirl, Ironman, the Flash, Captain America, and Wonder Woman will be covered as they align with and further expose participants to anti-oppressive work through the lenses of cultural humility, social justice, and unpacking implicit biases. Moreover, considerations for gender and culture will be explored.
Audience: Social Workers, LCPCs, and Psychologists, anyone interested in the subject matter
Location: Virtual
Sponsored By: University of Maryland School of Social Work
Cost: $105.00
For questions, email the University of Maryland School of Social Work at cpe@ssw.umaryland.edu