Building Bridges: Adlerian Play Therapy for Clients with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Discover how to support children, adolescents, and adults with autism spectrum disorder using Adlerian play therapy techniques. This course equips mental health professionals, educators, counselors, and therapists with tools to create affirming, empowering therapeutic spaces grounded in Adlerian theory.

Description

This course offers an in-depth exploration of Adlerian play therapy as a powerful and affirming approach to working with clients across the autism spectrum. Participants will learn to conceptualize, connect with, and support children, adolescents, and adults with autism spectrum disorders through a combination of Adlerian theory and practical, play-based strategies. Emphasizing belonging, encouragement, and client strengths, this course helps practitioners tailor interventions to meet sensory, relational, and communication needs. It is ideal for mental health professionals, educators, counselors, and therapists seeking to enhance their work with autistic clients and those committed to inclusive, strengths-based care.

 

4 Non-Contact CE hours (2 hours on historically significant theories and 2 hours on play therapy skills and methods)  

APT Approved Provider 99-055

 

  

League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists (LEAPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7402. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists (LEAPT) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Objectives

  1. Describe how Adlerian play therapy principles such as personality priorities and the Crucial Cs can be used in play therapy to conceptualize clients with autism spectrum disorder.
  2. Explain the relationship between sensory processing, communication styles, and social connection in autism spectrum disorder within the context of Adlerian play therapy.
  3. Identify the influence of family constellation, birth order, and cultural context on the behavioral presentation of clients with autism spectrum disorder as applied in Adlerian play therapy.
  4. Demonstrate at least two Adlerian play therapy interventions that support insight, social-emotional development, and empowerment in clients with autism spectrum disorder.
  5. Analyze how the therapeutic powers of play (fostering self-expression, enhancing social competence, and promoting emotional regulation) align with Adlerian play therapy interventions when working with clients on the autism spectrum.

Agenda

 

(central time)

9:00 am - Start
11:00 am - 15-minute break

1:15 pm - End of training.