PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION

Reflections on Dr.  Elkind 's Award
By Deborah Armstrong Hickey, Ph.D., Immediate Past President 
March 2010

SCAPT Celebrates the Work of Dr. David Elkind
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Voluntary Practice Guidelines

Read or download the APT Voluntary Play Therapy Practice Guidelines for insights from your colleagues about how to ethically and effectively practice play therapy. Because these guidelines will be reviewed and possibly revised this year, your comments and suggestions are welcome! Please make any comments and send them to APT.
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Articles in APT Magazines featuring SCAPT members

Check out APT articles published in the APT Magazines featuring SCAPT members Cathy Cooper-Ely, PhD, Sandra Frick-Helms, PhD, and Rebecca Moise, PhD on the APT Website by clicking the APT link below:

www.a4pt.org/ps.index.cfm?ID=1551

Sandra Frick-Helms, PhD, RN, RPT-S is the author of Question Number One in Client-Centered Play Therapy: What is the Ideal Frequency of Empathic Responses? (Volume 3, Issue 2-June 2008) which offers a thoughtful analysis of questions related to the process of responding.

Question Number One in Client-Centered Play Therapy Jun08 (Adobe Acrobat, 324KB)

Emily and Rachel’s Journey Part II: What Her Therapist Saw (Volume 2, Issue 2-June 2007) features the play therapist’s perspective written by Rebecca Moise, PhD, LISW-CP. Part I was written in an earlier issue presenting the perspective of Emily’s mother.

Emily & Rachel's Journey part II Jun07 (Adobe Acrobat, 289KB)

Therapeutic Aspects of Play in the Serendipitous Session (Volume 1, Issue 1-March 2006) by Rebecca Moise, PhD, LISW-CP shows how a case example by Cathy Cooper-Ely, PhD, LPC, RPT, can be used as a basis for theoretical analysis of play therapy approaches.

http://www.a4pt.org/download.cfm?ID=25212


SCAPT Continuing Education Questions

In this document:

  • Why are the SCAPT conference participants asked to “sign in”?
  • What about Continuing Education documentation?
  • Why do I have to fill out a SCAPT Continuing Education Application form?
  • Can I use the Verification of Attendance Certificate Contact Hours from the
    SCAPT conferences to become a Registered Play Therapist?
  • How does SCAPT provide Continuing Education for other disciplines?
  • Can I use the SCAPT Conference Contact Hours to satisfy my requirement for SC Teacher Re-Certification?
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SCAPT Promotes Play Therapy by Networking

In this document:

SCAPT Promotes Play Therapy by Networking with:
SC Counseling Association
SC School Counselor Association
The University of South Carolina~ Upsilon Sigma Chi Chapter Iota

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