Dr. Drewes is a licensed psychologist, certified school psychologist, and Registered Play Therapist and Supervisor. She currently lives in Ocala, FL. She has over 45 years of clinical and supervision experience with complex trauma, sexual abuse, foster care children and adolescents, in school, outpatient, and inpatient settings. She is former Board of Director of the Association for Play Therapy and Founder and President Emeritus of the NY Association for Play Therapy. She has been awarded the NYAPT Lifetime Achievement Award and the Association for Play Therapy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dr. Drewes is a frequently invited guest lecturer around the United States and internationally around the world, including Canada, England, Ireland, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, Australia, Taiwan, Denmark, and China. She supervises national and international play therapists. Dr. Drewes has published numerous book chapters journal articles and edited/co-edited fourteen play therapy books with the most recent being Supervision Can Be Playful, Second Edition, with Jodi Mullen; Play-based Interventions for childhood anxieties, Fears, and Phobias; Puppet Play Therapy; Play therapy in middle childhood with a companion DVD of Dr. Drewes demonstrating her work in Prescriptive Integrative Play Therapy with the American Psychological Association; and co-edited with Dr. Charles Schaefer The Therapeutic powers of play. 20 Core agents of change.
CANCELLED --- Play Therapy 101: History and Historical Theories
This training will help play therapy clinicians and those seeking Registered Play Therapy status learn about the history and origins of play therapy. It will distinguish the Association for Play Therapy designated seminal theories and how they follow a golden thread into current historically significant theories that were derived from them. These historically significant theories have had a lasting impact and have stood the test of time from the newer theories or approaches that have emerged in more recent years, and have not yet proven their significance.
Please note: 3 CE hours can be appl...Read moreied toward Seminal Theory, and 3 CE hours can be applied toward Historically Significant Foundation. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Name the three seminal theories to the field of play therapy.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the history of play therapy.
- Differentiate between a seminal theory and a historically significant play therapy theory and models.
- Name at least three historically significant theories in play therapy that are frequently used.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the Therapeutic Powers of Play and their relationship to play therapy.
- Select a theoretical model that best fits the participant’s style of play therapy work.
Target Audience
This educational activity is intended for graduate-level pre-licensed and licensed behavioral/mental health professionals, including psychologists, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and play therapists for continuing education purposes.
Learning Levels
- Beginner, Immediate, and Advanced.
Saturday, September 06, 2025
Live Interactive Webinar
08:30 AM EDT - 04:00 PM EDT
About the speaker
Dr. Athena Drewes, PsyD, MA, MS Ed, RPT-S
Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor & Author