Telehealth Meets Play: Treating Children and Adolescents in a Virtual Setting – Cheryl Catron and Sophia Ansari

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You have the clinical skill set to work with children and adolescents in your office. But are you confident in how you can translate those skills to a virtual setting?

Packed with over creative interventions and insights, this 3-hour recording is sure to leave you inspired and full of ideas for your next tele-session, including how you can:

• Set up a space that is welcoming and therapeutic (yes, even for virtual offices!) 
• Engage and connect with all kids, including those who are non-verbal and/or hesitant 
• Cultivate the neurological benefits of attunement, co-regulation, and trust 
• Troubleshoot common barriers to effective treatment 
• Creatively include caregivers to extend support between sessions 
• And more! 

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1. Determine the benefits of providing play therapy on a digital platform.
2. Apply directive and non-directive play therapy interventions to use in telehealth therapy sessions with children and adolescents. 
3. Develop interventions for challenging clinical scenarios in telehealth, including resistance and crisis intervention.

Optimizing Your Telehealth Sessions from the Start 

Setting up your space (and why it matters) 

Preparation for virtual sessions 

• Games that require little-to-no material 
• Planning ahead for connectivity disruption 
• Boundaries and child-centered limit setting 

How to structure a teletherapy session 

Adjusting expectations and outcome

Creative Teleplay Interventions for your Virtual Toolbox 

Demonstrations and resources, including: 

• Movement and regulation 
• Creative and expressive arts 
• Interactive choice boards, like PPT 
• Sandtray
• Games, LEGO®, and other play techniques 
• Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) 
• Mindfulness techniques 
• And more!

Troubleshooting Common Scenarios 

What to do when: Resistance, hyperactivity, limit testing, crisis intervention, and more 

Teleplay with non-verbal children 

Clinician self-care (screen time is exhausting!)