*This is a LIVE webinar

Date: July 23rd, 2025

Facilitator: Stephanie Mobley, MSW, LCSW

Time: 9:00 am - 12:15 pm CST

Continuing Education Hours: 3.0 APT Non-Contact CEs & 3 NBCC CEs

Training Description:

Nearly 1 million newcomer youth are currently enrolled in schools and school-based play therapists are key in supporting the mental health of these students. This session aims to highlight ways school-based play therapists can implement group play therapy with newcomer students from elementary to high schools. Participants will explore different
play-based interventions to address a variety of stressors in immigrant students including anxiety, depression, PTSD, adjustment and acculturation stress, language barriers, and more.

Learning Objectives 

1. Apply the therapeutic powers of play in group therapy with newcomer youth in schools.
2. Explore the use of group play-based interventions to address acculturation stress in Newcomer youth. 
3. Demonstrate cultural humility with newcomer youth in a group play therapy in schools.

Agenda: 

• 9:00 am-10:30 am Lecture & experiential learning
• 10:30 am-10:45 am Break
• 10:45 am-12:05 pm Lecture & experiential learning
• 12:05 pm-12:15 pm Q & A/wrap-up

What you'll get:

• 3 APT Non-Contact CEs
• 3 NBCC CEs
• Certificate of Completion

*Course evaluation and quiz must be completed to receive CE credits. Certificates will be provided upon completion of webinar, evaluation, and quiz.