Workshops

Child-Centered Play Therapy

Young children express themselves through play. They also use play to make sense of the world, cope with their stresses and difficulties, improve their developmental skills, and model new behaviors and understandings. Child-centered play therapy, offered in a secure environment, provides a structured and systematic way for children to use their own resources to enhance their mastery and feelings about themselves.

Participants learn:

• The rationale and methods of child-centered play therapy.
• To structure and conduct a program of play therapy.
• To role-play with other participants and receive supervision of play therapy skills.
• To integrate play therapy in their own settings.

Brief Child-Centered Family Therapy/Enrichment: The Filial Relationship Enhancement Approach

Filial Therapy trains parents to conduct child-centered play therapy sessions with their own children at home. These home play sessions are the basis for a comprehensive and systemic program involving the entire family. Extensive research has demonstrated that filial therapy effectively resolves presenting problems; improves mastery, coping and competence in children; strengthens parent-child relationships, and improves family functioning.

Participants learn:

• How the Filial approach empowers parents to help their children and themselves.
• The principles, skills and values of child-centered play therapy.
• To structure a program of Filial Therapy.
• Methods of training and supervising parents for play sessions.
• To help parents generalize the skills and methods learned in therapy and apply them to their everyday lives.
• How Filial Therapy can be organized as a brief therapy.
• To integrate Filial Therapy with other therapies into a whole family therapy.

Brief Relationship Enhancement Therapy/Enrichment For Couples

This therapy helps couples to engage more intimately, and to learn the skills necessary to generalize and maintain this emotional engagement throughout their lives. It helps them avoid negativity, criticism, and defensiveness in their relationships, and reduces the emotional loading that often causes relationships to spiral out of control.

Participants learn:

• The rationale and values behind the educational skill training model of RE.
• The CORE RE Skills and become familiar with the secondary skills of RE.
• To structure a program of RE Couples therapy.
• Methods of training and supervising couples in these methods.
• To help couples implement what they have learned in their everyday lives.
• To help couples maintain these skills over time.
• To incorporate this intensive brief couples model in their own practices.

Family Relationship Enhancement Therapy/Enrichment

This therapy and enrichment program elaborates on the principles and methods of Relationship Enhancement. It is designed to meet the needs of families with three or more persons. Special emphasis is placed on working with whole families, adolescents and parents, and families-of-origin. This approach helps people relate to each other more constructively, to be respectful of each other, and to take responsibility for their part in the relationship. Furthermore, it helps them understand each other better and remain emotionally engaged.

Participants learn:

• Rationale and values
• CORE Skills and become familiar with related skills.
• Basic principles of family development, organization and process
• To integrate skill training within a family systems perspective
• To organize and conduct a program of RE family therapy
• To incorporate this program in their own practices

Child Marriage and Family Therapy Training

This training is for those professionals who would like to learn more about working with children, couples and families. It emphasizes the process of therapy that engenders constructive and satisfying change, and is composed of a series of specialized programs that focus on understanding individual and family development, and how families function, The goal is to identify and understand the underlying processes that foster functionality and those processes that undermine it, Emphasis is placed on how to elicit the underlying positives that promote constructive change.

This series of training events includes emphasis on work with specific populations including:

• Families having children with social, emotional, behavioral neurological and learning problems
• Families with children diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• Families with a retarded child
• Stepfamilies
• Couples with fertility problems
• Adoptive and foster families

Please Complete The Following Form If You Have Interest In Participating In A Workshop:

You can reach Ginsberg Associates by phone at 215-348-2424, or e-mail training@relationshipenhancement.com.