The Importance of Play
Event Date: 06/17/2025
Event Time: 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Event Type: Live Virtual
Total CE Credits: 1.5
Clinical Hours: 1.5
General Admission: $0 CE Cost: $15
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Description
This presentation will explore some of the fundamental benefits of play in general and when it comes to fostering healthy connections. It will also highlight some effective therapeutic games and discuss ways that non therapeutic games can be used to assess and build important social and relational skills.
Training Objectives:
- Understand the importance of engaging in play both as a family and as a provider.
- Be able to to identify therapeutic games that promote growth in areas where your family or the clients you serve could benefit.
- Be able to identify some games or activities that fit with your stye, promote play and help you assess and/or build on important social and relational skills.
Speaker & Bio
Tiffany Yawn, LMSW
Tiffany has been working with children and families in need since 2015 in various roles from crisis, residential, case management and now family therapy. She received her Master's in Social Work from Boston University in 2022 and as a final project for her clinical internship started a social skills group for the residential children utilizing a therapeutic tabletop roleplay game that had a lot of success. She is now one of APAC's family therapists working with foster children, pre-adoptive families and adoptive families to support them in working towards healthy and permanent connections for their futures. In her work she often uses various games, both those designed to be therapeutic and others to engage, assess and support in building skills and healthy connections.
