2025 Au Level 2 AAPT

Service Description

Why this workshop? This workshop offers a second-level, more advanced training in Animal Assisted Play Therapy®. Dog interactive sessions with your own dog will occur in segments throughout the workshop, with resting periods for the dogs at other times. Lectures, videos, discussions, and planning sessions will occur between the dog training segments. Equine components are included as well. Role-plays of play sessions will include your own dogs or a demo dog, as well as some options with horses. Who Should Attend? This training program is designed for play therapists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, psychiatrists, family therapists, school counselors, and other experienced mental health, medical, allied health, and educational professionals. The training is relevant to a wide range of clinical, developmental, and educational problems for clients throughout the lifespan. Canine and equine professionals interested in the topic are also welcome to attend. This is an advanced-level training. All must have completed the AAPT Level 1 training and 8 supervision sessions prior to attending the Level 2! Schedule The training runs daily from 9:00am to 5:45pm, with a slightly earlier dismissal on the last day. There are 28 actual training hours, and the online courses provide 16 CE credits/clock hours, for a total of 44 hours for the entire program. Participants must first have attended the four-day Animal Assisted Play Therapy Level 1 Training and have completed two online courses – (1) Essentials of Canine Behavior & Training and (2) AAPT Ethics & Animal Welfare (included in fees, although purchase of the textbooks is separate. Access to online courses provided after registration.). You will need the book Animal Assisted Play Therapy (VanFleet & Faa-Thompson, 2017, Professional Resource Press) which you should have read in full for the Level 1. For this course, you will re-read selected portions of the same book. Please note that approximately 8 supervision sessions must be completed prior to attendance at the Level 2 as well, and at least 4 short session videos should have been shown during this supervision! All amounts are listed in U.S. dollars. Currency conversions are made automatically when you register. We regret that installment payments are not possible Early Bird Fee: $1365 USD (fully paid 3months prior) Regular Fee: $1535 USD (pd w/in 3 months of workshop start)