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Professional Training
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Fillial Family Therapy Training
We are very excited to offer Fillial Family Therapy training in Spring 2026, delivered by Melanie Gilbert-De Rios from Play Therapy Tauranga.
What is Filial Family Therapy (FFT)?
FFT represents an extension of the principles of Child Centred Play Therapy to the entire family unit. FFT is designed for instances where inclusion of their parent/parents would be advantageous. Essentially, parents are systematically trained to conduct therapeutic play sessions with their children and receive on-going supervision and support from the FFT-trained professional to reach four goals :- to reduce child symptoms- to enhance the parent- child relationship- to improve child competence and self-esteem - to improve parenting skills This supports parents in learning new skills to help their children overcome their difficulties and develop more effective child management techniques to prevent future problems developing.
Supported by a wealth of research, FFT has been demonstrated to be a highly effective approach and demonstrated the attainment of goals across a wide variety of problems.
More details of the training coming soon, watch this space!
Child-Centred Play Therapy Cerificate
ChildPlayWorks offers a world renowned training program here in Aotearoa. Click here to find out how to train in a new career as a child-centred play therpist.
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