Reel to Real: Using Adlerian Play Therapy to Conceptualize ‘The Goonies’

This experiential Adlerian play therapy training is designed to help clinicians strengthen their conceptualization skills by increasing their ability to recognize Adlerian themes as they unfold within relationships, behaviors, family systems, and social interactions. Using “The Goonies” as a shared experiential learning tool, participants will explore how Adlerian concepts can move beyond theory and become more visible, practical, and clinically meaningful.

During this training, participants will engage in an Adlerian play therapy refresher focused on conceptualization and clinical thinking. Through lecture and discussion, clinicians will review foundational Adlerian concepts including life tasks, personality priorities, Crucial Cs, goals of misbehavior, family atmosphere, mistaken beliefs, private logic, and lifestyle convictions. Participants will also explore how Adlerian themes emerge through storytelling, peer relationships, family interactions, and social belonging.

This training is designed to strengthen clinicians’ ability to “see” Adlerian concepts more clearly within client presentation, relational dynamics, and play therapy treatment planning while preparing participants for experiential conceptualization application.

2 Non-Contact CE Hours. (includes 2 hours on Play Therapy Seminal or Historically Significant and 2 hours of Play Thearpy 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.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Identify at least five foundational Adlerian play therapy concepts within fictional child and family presentations.
2. Analyze at least three character behaviors or relational patterns using Adlerian play therapy concepts related to family atmosphere, social interest, belonging, or discouragement.
3. Differentiate at least three objective observations from corresponding Adlerian play therapy clinical interpretations within a fictional case presentation.
4. Formulate at least two developmentally appropriate treatment goals based on an Adlerian play therapy conceptualization of a fictional child or family.
5. Select at least two Adlerian play therapy interventions and one encouragement strategy that address identified lifestyle themes, mistaken beliefs, or relational patterns.
6. Develop one parent consultation recommendation that is consistent with an Adlerian play therapy conceptualization and treatment plan.