Description
Workshop 2. SOLUTION FOCUSED PLAY THERAPY
7 General HPCSA CPD Points
Date: 18 July 2025
Time: 08:00 – 16:30
Price: R2 000-00 (includes tea/coffee and snacks as well as lunch)
Workshop Venue: Parktown North, Johannesburg
Presenter: Dr Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs
Workshop Outline:
Solution Focused Play therapy is exciting, creative, brief and highly effective. By externalizing the problem and then utilizing the child’s strengths, interests and personality to build solutions in a creative and playful way; gives the child control and skills to do things differently.
This workshop will illustrate how to help children to externalise the problem, how to find exceptions and creatively and playfully incorporate these exceptions into the child’s daily life to bring about change. Solution Focused Therapy believes that in the presence of a problem lies an absence of a skill therefore using previously positive skills (exceptions) builds new and healthier ways of behaviour and interaction.
Empowering the child in a playful and creative manner gives the child all the tools they need to take control of their life and change their behaviour. This workshop will look at utilising drawings, puppets, story MP3’s (sound), treasure hunts, magic wands and even a time machine.
Aims of the workshop:
- To discuss Solution Focused Play Therapy
- To illustrate how to externalise the behaviour problem
- To uncover all the times the child behaves appropriately
- To utilise the exceptions as strengths
- To empower the child to behave differently and overcome the problem
- To use creative and playful approaches to problems
- To incorporate parents into therapy
Outcomes of the workshop:
- Implement Solution Focused Play Therapy
- Understand the externalisation principle
- Find exceptions to the problem
- Turn exceptions into strengths
- Empower the child to behave differently
- Utilise creative play therapy tools such as drawing, stories, puppets and treasure hunts
