Play for a Change: Therapeutic Action in Contemporary Child Psychotherapy

Bryn Mawr College’s Department of Social Work and Social Research, The Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, APA Division 39’s Section on Children and Adolescents, and The Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education

Venue
Thomas Great Hall, Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

Children learn to think, regulate emotions, have fun, heal from trauma, and find self-agency through play. However, children play less, and parents and professionals have lost sight of both the value of play in healthy development as well as play’s role in helping children work through conflicts and symptoms. Providing clinical and research evidence that reasserts that value is the goal of this conference.

6 CE credits are offered for the Saturday Workshop

Please click here for further details, to view the programme, and to register.

This conference will be followed by a special volume of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy that will cover the same topic. Please click here to view the call for proposals.