Reflection of my ‘Introduction to Play Therapy’ Presentation
The following discussion is a reflection of my Power Point presentation (Appendix 1), the content, how the presentation went and areas for change. On the 12th of July, I delivered my presentation to the school’s Senior Management and the Middle Leadership Team. The handout provided for the audience can be found in Appendix 2.
When compiling my version of the presentation I had difficulty in deciding which information to remove, I feel everything included is relevant and interesting particularly when introducing it to an audience with no prior knowledge. On reflection my presentation contained too many slides, however, I naturally moved on quicker through some. An example of this was …show more content…
We discussed how these stats look in our school and the audience was surprised by the potential number of students that would benefit from play therapy, they were able to name at least two pupils from their respective classes they felt would fit the criteria. I wanted to highlight the lack of resources available by including the number of registered play therapists in our local area. This information retrieved from the PTUK register (Thomas, 2017) showed only one registered play therapist in Rochdale, and that is me. However, I did acknowledge I was unaware if our local CAMHs had any employed, but the inclusion manager advised the group that, other than diagnosis, the local CAMHs did not to offer many therapies and only those children considered high risk were offered intervention. Again, emphasizing how beneficial it will be to have a play therapist in the school …show more content…
This paper, alongside PTUK and Kent County Council Research Project included in the presentation and the measured impact from the SDQs submitted by trainees, evidenced the positive impact of Play
The following discussion is a reflection of my Power Point presentation (Appendix 1), the content, how the presentation went and areas for change. On the 12th of July, I delivered my presentation to the school’s Senior Management and the Middle Leadership Team. The handout provided for the audience can be found in Appendix 2.
When compiling my version of the presentation I had difficulty in deciding which information to remove, I feel everything included is relevant and interesting particularly when introducing it to an audience with no prior knowledge. On reflection my presentation contained too many slides, however, I naturally moved on quicker through some. An example of this was …show more content…
We discussed how these stats look in our school and the audience was surprised by the potential number of students that would benefit from play therapy, they were able to name at least two pupils from their respective classes they felt would fit the criteria. I wanted to highlight the lack of resources available by including the number of registered play therapists in our local area. This information retrieved from the PTUK register (Thomas, 2017) showed only one registered play therapist in Rochdale, and that is me. However, I did acknowledge I was unaware if our local CAMHs had any employed, but the inclusion manager advised the group that, other than diagnosis, the local CAMHs did not to offer many therapies and only those children considered high risk were offered intervention. Again, emphasizing how beneficial it will be to have a play therapist in the school …show more content…
This paper, alongside PTUK and Kent County Council Research Project included in the presentation and the measured impact from the SDQs submitted by trainees, evidenced the positive impact of Play