4+3 = Goals of Misbehavior in Play Therapy

Learn about using the goals of misbehavior in Adlerian play therapy.

Description

This webinar will be a mix of didactic and experiential learning.  Participants will learn to identify the 4 unconscious goals of misbehavior, attention, power, revenge, and proving inadequacies.  They will also gain understanding into the 3 conscious goals of misbehavior, getting, self-elevation, and avoiding.  They will work through various scenarios to identify clients’ goals of misbehavior.  Participants will also explore skills and techniques to help their clients make changes.  They will work in small groups to explore effective storytelling techniques to help clients shift their goal of misbehavior from destructive to more adaptive ways.  

4 Live Webinar CE hours (Non-Contact)  (Includes 2 Play Therapy Seminal or Historically Significant Theories, 2 hours on Play Therapy Skills and Methods, etc.) This workshop meets APT's definition of "Live Webinar."

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. Name and describe the 4 unconscious goals of misbehavior, which are used in conceptualizing in Adlerian play therapy.
  2. Name and describe the 3 conscious goals of misbehavior, which are used in conceptualizing in Adlerian play therapy.
  3. Explain how to increase their own awareness around their cognitive, affective, and somatic experiences of countertransference in reaction to play therapy clients’ misbehavior.
  4. Describe at least 2 Adlerian play therapy skills designed to help clients make behavioral, cognitive, attitudinal, and affective changes related to the goals of misbehavior.
  5. Describe at least 3 Adlerian play therapy techniques designed to help clients make behavioral, cognitive, attitudinal, and affective changes related to the goals of misbehavior. 

Agenda

8:00 AM - Begin

10:00 AM - Break (15 min)

12:00 PM - End