Free Resources: Handouts, EBooks, & Videos

Curious about Synergetic Play Therapy? Want to know more about play therapy in general? Feel free to read and print the handouts below!

E-Book

• The Most Important Toy in the Playroom: Why It’s You and How This Knowledge Can Transform Your Practice

Infographics

• Symptoms of Regulation & Dysregulation
• Interoception – the 8th Sensory System
• Children are Barometers for Authenticity
• Keys to Making Aggression Therapeutic
• Balancing the Left Brain & Right Brain (Tips)
• SPT Guide to Starting the New Year
• The Forgotten Ones: Perfect Children Need Play Therapy Too

Handouts

• Synergetic Play Therapy Tenets
• SPT Tenets Infographic
• What Is Synergetic Play Therapy?
• SPT’s Primary Influences
• The Therapeutic Stages Curve
• SPT Nervous System Symptoms
• SPT Nervous System – Spanish Version
• Developmental Tasks
• Using the Bop Bag in Play Therapy

Videos

• 5 Ways to Avoid Emotional Flooding in the Playroom (30-minute training)
• Find many more videos to support you on your journey as a play therapist here! 

Blogs

• You-You: Why the Therapist is the Most Important Toy
• Valuing Play Therapy: How a Parent’s View Influences a Child’s
• What Did I Do? – An Exploration of the Inner Experiences of Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists When Touch Arises in the Playroom
• Growth Requires Friction
• Overcoming Fatigue in Teletherapy
• Sleep Issues in Children: Why Do Some Kids Ban the Bed?
• Why is it so Important to Understand Neuroscience if You’re Going to do Play Therapy?
• Avoiding Compassion Fatigue: How to Leave Work in the Playroom
• The Forgotten Ones: “Perfect” Children Need Play Therapy Too
• Tragedy: Why No One Emotion Fits All
• Explicit Memory Versus Implicit Memory
• The Brain on Shame
• Trauma’s Impact on the Brain
• Keeping the Connection When a Child Wants to Leave

Find more Playroom Blogs here…