Play Therapy Certificate

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The University of Wisconsin-Stout Play Therapy Certificate is designed to meet the 150 educational training hours required by the Assocation for Play Therapy to become a Registered Play Therapist or School-Based Registered Play Therapist. Children naturally engage in play as a means to explore and understand their thoughts, feelings, relationships, and experiences.  Play therapy is considered a developmentally, ethically, and evidentially based approach to assist children in learning to communicate with others, express their needs, and develop problem-solving and coping skills, while relating to others.  Play therapy can be a powerful method to support children in their healing and reconnecting with others after difficult and traumatic experiences.  The program is designed so that it can be completed by starting in either the fall or spring semester and finished by the end of the summer term.