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Author/Editor: Dee C. Ray, PhD, LPC-S, RPT-S™ Pages: ~352 pages Reading Time: ~ 10 hours Paper Time: ~ 2 hours (2–3 pages) Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced Category: Seminal Clinical Theory & Advanced Skills Total CE’s: 12 APT Non-Contact CE Hours Price: $120 The book is NOT included. 🧠 Course Description This advanced book study invites clinicians into a deeper, more intentional practice of play therapy by focusing on the essential conditions, knowledge, and skills required for effective child counseling. In Advanced Play Therapy: Essential Conditions, Knowledge and Skills for Child Practice by Dee Ray integrates research, theory, and clinical wisdom to clarify what truly matters in the playroom: the therapist’s way of being, mastery of core skills, and the capacity to make developmentally and culturally attuned decisions moment by moment. Rather than emphasizing techniques alone, this text centers the therapeutic relationship, the core conditions of empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard, and the application of advanced skills such as theme development, limit setting, treatment planning, and evaluation. Ray bridges science and art by honoring play therapy as both an evidence-informed intervention and a profoundly relational, ethical practice. Participants will sharpen their clinical judgment, strengthen their conceptualization skills, and refine their playroom presence so that their interventions are both purposeful and grounded in best practices for children across diverse contexts. ***All APT Non-Contact CE Self-Paced Book Studies must be completed within 60 days of registration to receive a certificate.
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