PLTH 8302 - Neurobiology Of Play

Credit Hours: 2

This course covers key neural developmental processes and sequences that contribute to critical concepts that are applicable to play therapy techniques with children of varying ages, diagnoses, and social-emotional trauma. Concepts of emotional contagion, divisions of the nervous system, brain divisions, and executive versus autonomic control will be reviewed in relationship to critical clinical treatment decisions. This will cover use of verbal and nonverbal, affective and cognitive, directive and nondirective interventions, as well as the role of empathy in play therapy.

Modality: In-Person, Online

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PLTH 8302 - Neurobiology Of Play