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Play Therapy for Grown-Ups

Session #: 710-329
Presenter(s): Peter Fraenkel
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min.
Event: 2010 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Date: March 25-28, 2010

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The tools of play therapy--toys, music, art, and other nonverbal media--typically are reserved for work with children. But both research and clinical experience indicates that talk therapy with adults often can become boring, predictable, and unproductive. Recent brain studies indicate that incorporating play and music result in more "whole-brain" responses, evoking the spontaneity and creativity in clients that can result in dramatic symptom reduction. This workshop will introduce novel ways to use objects of play to break up adults' habitual self-sabotaging behaviors, repetitious couple's conflict, and chronic symptoms of anxiety and depression. You'll learn at least three specific techniques for using toys and other objects to interrupt obsessive, anxious rumination and a step-by-step approach to using music to engage psychologically inaccessible clients in a profound and healing emotional experience.

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