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This course is designed for those who have had previous preparation in basic play therapy, and who desire to enhance their understanding and refine their skills in techniques and methods of play therapy when working with children and adolescents in school, community-based, and private counseling settings. Advanced interventions and strategies will focus on aspects related to various theoretical orientations and creative approaches to counseling young children, adolescents, and families. The usefulness of expressive art techniques, sand play, bibliotherapy, and school-based play therapy will be some of the advanced topics covered. Students will have the opportunity to receive supervised experience as they practice and observe play therapy techniques through experiential assignments. Specific discussions will focus on how counseling and play therapy influences the practice of counseling with children and adolescents, and how current empirically based research and ethical clinical practice influence the development of play therapy and counseling theories.