Bibliotherapy: A Play-Based Approach
Presented by: Juliet Fortino, LPC, RPT-S™
Play therapy offers developmentally responsive ways for children to communicate, process experiences, and build new coping skills. Within this approach, bibliotherapy can become a powerful play-based tool that helps children explore feelings, make meaning of difficult experiences, and practice problem solving through stories, discussion, and expressive activities. This workshop will focus on how books can be intentionally integrated into the play therapy process to support self-expression, emotional regulation, and therapeutic change. Participants will explore play therapy applications of bibliotherapy across a variety of topics and will be introduced to book-based interventions that can be adapted to a child’s age, needs, and clinical history.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the rationale for using bibliotherapy within play therapy.
- Identify developmentally appropriate books that support therapeutic goals in play therapy.
- List books and themes relevant to common clinical concerns, including trauma, self-esteem, and foster care.
- Demonstrate at least one play therapy intervention that can be paired with selected children’s books.
Level of training: Intermediate | Play Therapy Skills and Methods
This training is approved by APT Approved Provider 97-035 for 3 Contact CE hours.
Limited seating available.
Location: Casa de los Ninos, 1120 N 5th Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85705. We will meet in the Maxwell B conference room.
About our presenter: Juliet Fortino, MC, LPC, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor™ works with Children and Families involved with Department of Child Safety and the various child mental health agencies in the Tucson community in a private practice setting. She has over 25 years experience working with child trauma, abuse, attachment, and play therapy. She currently uses play therapy in individual and family therapy to help children heal from their previous traumas. She has extensive experience working with children of all ages, including the 0-5 age group. She speaks locally and nationally on a variety of play therapy topics.
AZAPT Members $50; Guests $60
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