- Location: Childrens Therapy Centre, TÃr na nÓg, Slievenagorta Ballymore, Mullingar Co. Westmeath Ireland
- Duration: TBA
Course details
Therapeutic Play Skills is a Level 6 Minor Award (6N4705) offered on a part-time, blended learning basis. It is an experientially based learning programme which will equip participants to plan, deliver and evaluate both group and individual play based interventions. Participants will engage in creative activities that will enhance personal development, develop insight and awareness, and contribute to understanding, and meeting, the needs of all children including those living in adverse circumstances. Directive and non-directive therapeutic approaches will be addressed. This course will be available at various locations around the country.
On completion of the programme and the attainment of 15 credits the learner will be awarded a Level 6 component certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills. This can be used as a component of the Level 6 Major Award in Early Childhood Care and Education (6M2007) or other Major Awards.
This programme runs at a variety of locations around Ireland and can be run specifically for interested groups or agencies.
Applications
Applications are accepted by letter giving details of the applicants name, address, email and phone numbers, educational background, current employment, and reasons for wishing to complete the course. An up to date C.V. should be included.
Learner Profile: this programme is aimed at learners who:
- Have a particular interest in the therapeutic powers of play and wish to acquire skills to facilitate children and young people to overcome negative influences and circumstances in their lives.
- Wish to attain a recognized qualification and embark on, or enhance, a professional career in working with children in a range of settings.
- Wish to further their own knowledge and understanding of play and its developmental, educational and therapeutic applications.
- Would like to upskill to enhance employment prospects and/or job satisfaction and promotion opportunities
This award will also be of interest to holders of the Certificate in Early Childhood Care and Education and to others including teachers, therapists, social workers etc whose professional life brings them into regular contact with at-risk children and children in crisis. It is also suitable for a broad range of childcare staff in community based or residential settings.
To access this programme learners should have reached the standards of knowledge, skills and competence associated with level 5 on the National Framework of Qualifications. This may have been achieved through a formal qualification or through relevant life and work experiences.
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
It is the aim of this programme to:
- Equip participants with skills to plan and deliver, individual and group, developmentally appropriate play intervention with children and young people;
- Enable learners to focus on meeting children’s specific needs and facilitation therapeutic interventions in the context of holistic development using play;
- Enable participants to use play as a therapeutic and developmental medium in a wide range of settings including educational/learning, residential and day care, recreational and hospital;
- Equip the learner with the knowledge, skill and competence to use play and its developmental, educational and therapeutic applications.
Content
- Unit 1 – Play, Child Development, and Service Provision
- Unit 2 – Plan for and Support Self-directed Play
- Unit 3 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Non Directive Play Skills
- Unit 4 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Therapeutic Storytelling
- Unit 5 – Planning and implementing Play Interventions: Creative Visualization
- Unit 6 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Interactive Play
- Unit 7 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Therapeutic Use of Puppets
- Unit 8 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Medical Play
- Unit 9 – Working with Groups for Personal and Social Development
- Unit 10 – Professional Practice
Course Location
About Children's Therapy Centre
The philosophy of teaching that is subscribed to at CTC is that the role of the centre is to facilitate the learning of each trainee, that they have a responsibility to each trainee to support their learning, and that it is their job to make it as easy as possible for each trainee to learn as much as possible. they see teaching and learning as two distinct, separate, processes. It is not enough for us to teach; they are responsible for doing so in a way that facilitates their trainees to learn as much as possible, including all essential components of the ctheirse. they believe that they can help each trainee achieve their innate potential by providing an appropriate, theyll prepared and enriched environment. This includes providing a range of learning opportunities, facilities and restheirces, curriculum, supports, suitable trainers etc – a cohesive training package.
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