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Relationships Between Professional Development and Attitudes, Knowledge, and Skills in Play Therapy Among Counselors.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Relationships Between Professional Development and Attitudes, Knowledge, and Skills in Play Therapy Among Counselors./
Author:	Anderson, Cynthia Ann.
Description:	1 online resource (189 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-09, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-09B.
Subject:	Education. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798569987559

Relationships Between Professional Development and Attitudes, Knowledge, and Skills in Play Therapy Among Counselors.
Anderson, Cynthia Ann.

Relationships Between Professional Development and Attitudes, Knowledge, and Skills in Play Therapy Among Counselors. - 1 online resource (189 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-09, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--St. Mary's University (Texas), 2020.

Includes bibliographical references

Most counselors receive inadequate training in play therapy, through university counselor education programs, to counsel children using the method, which leaves novice counselors searching for workshops, institutes, conferences, or self-training to effectively meet the mental health needs of children with play therapy. In this first-of-its-kind study, the researcher investigated relationships between professional development and play therapy among working counselors and measured attitudes, knowledge and skills, and types of training in play therapy. A nonrandom sample of counselors were recruited from relevant online sources in this quantitative study. Attitudes, knowledge, and skills were measured by the self-reported Revised Play Therapy Attitude-Knowledge-Skills Survey (Kao, 2009).The results of a MANOVA indicated a significant relationship between professional development and attitudes, knowledge, and skills in play therapy among counselors based on the various training types. The multiple regression analysis revealed that university training, institute/professional conference, and workshop training combined predicted higher attitudes; institute/conference training predicted higher skill level; and workshop training predicted higher knowledge. A simple linear regression revealed that knowledge predicts skills in play therapy. APT membership demonstrated higher knowledge and skills mean scores when compared with non-APT members using a t test. Three hypotheses were confirmed at a statistically significant level: Counselors with university-level training had higher levels of attitudes, knowledge, and skills; knowledge in play therapy predicted high skill levels of the counselors; and APT membership related to higher levels of knowledge and skills.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798569987559Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Education.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Counselor educationIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

Relationships Between Professional Development and Attitudes, Knowledge, and Skills in Play Therapy Among Counselors.
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