(HS Mellenthin, Stone 150163 2025) Intergenerational Healing in Play Therapy: Rebuilding Family Bonds through Systemic Trauma
Tracking # 20-1313273
Course overview
Watch renowned experts Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S, and Jessica Stone, Ph.D., RPT-S, for an engaging session that dives deep into the impact of generational trauma on attachment, family dynamics, and play therapy. This lively presentation will guide you through the essential concepts behind systemic trauma and uncover the subtle ways it shapes your clients' relationships and behaviors in play therapy. Through an experiential exercise, you'll encounter a transformative play therapy intervention you can put into action immediately, empowering you to strengthen and heal family systems directly in your play therapy practice. Whether you're exploring these concepts for the first time or looking to expand your play therapy toolkit, this session will open new avenues to support families, equipping you with fresh insights and powerful play therapy tools to address trauma at its roots. Don't miss out--join us and bring renewed vision and transformative play therapy techniques back to your clients!
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling
Certified Master Social Worker
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Florida Board of Nursing
APRN Temporary Certificate for Practice in Areas of Critical Need
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Licensed Practical Nurse
Registered Nurse
Florida Board of Psychology
Limited License Psychologist
Psychologist
Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board
Licensed Independent Marriage and Family Therapist
Licensed Independent Social Worker
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
Licensed Professional Counselor
Licensed Social Worker
Marriage and Family Therapist
Registered Social Worker Assistant
Disclosure statements
Financial: Clair Mellenthin has employment relationships with Wasatch Family Therapy and the University of Louisiana Monroe. She is a published author and receives royalties. Clair Mellenthin receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Clair Mellenthin is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Play Therapy.
Financial: Jessica Stone maintains a private practice and is the CEO of Virtual Sandtray®©. She is the co-creator of the Virtual Sandtray App for iPad (VSA) and the Virtual Sandtray for Virtual Reality (VSA-VR) and receives royalties as a published author. Jessica Stone receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jessica Stone serves as the chair of Mental Health Virtual Reality International Coalition and Digital Play Therapy™. She serves on the board for World Association of Sand Therapy Professionals, Frontiers: Virtual Reality in Pediatric Medicine, and is an advisory board member of AutPlay.