Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Play Therapy Certificate


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The target audience for the Family Sciences Graduate Certificate includes (a) graduate students who are currently enrolled in an academic program specific to the mental health field (e.g., clinical psychology, counseling psychology, professional counseling, clinical social work, psychiatry, or couple and family therapy) and would like additional training specific to the practice of family financial therapy, and (b) professionals who are already licensed in a mental health profession and would like to gain specialized training. If you do not meet these qualifications, please consider the Couple and Family Therapy Master’s program in the Department of Family Sciences, through which Family Financial Therapy and Play Therapy certificates can be earned.

Graduate Certificate offered for CFT emphasis students, mental health professionals or students working towards a Master’s or Ph.D. in a mental health specialization:

 

Play Therapy

https://fam.ca.uky.edu/content/play-therapy

Three required courses:

  • FAM 686 : Theory and Methods in Couple and Family Therapy
  • FAM 658 : Adolescent Development
  • FAM 745 : Family and Children in Play Therapy

 

One elective course (choose one of the following):

  • EDP 600 : Life Span Development [not available to fully online students]
  • IEC 659 : Advanced Child Development
  • FAM 678 : Family Processes
  • FAM 652 : Theories and Frameworks in Family Science
  • FAM 654 : The Life Course Perspective on Families and Individuals

Department of Family Sciences: https://fam.ca.uky.edu

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