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Play Therapy Canada (PTC) - is a not for profit organisation dedicated to promoting the use of play and creative arts therapies as ways of enabling children to reach their full potential. We are funded mainly by our membership subscriptions with fees for services provided and secondarily by philanthropic investments. On this page we summarise: | |||||||
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Professional Practitioners | ||||||||
Our Mission and Purpose |
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Members' Services | Who we are for? | Working with other organisations | ||||||
Conferences & Events | Our Objectives | Our Role in Professional Regulation | ||||||
Publications & Books | Our Constitution and Structure | |||||||
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Affiliations | To maintain our position as the leading professional body, in Canada, dedicated to promoting the use of play and creative arts therapies (the therapies) as ways of enabling children to reach their full potential by alleviating emotional, behaviour and mental health problems. | |||||||
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PTC exists to further the good practice of therapeutic work with children. This includes improving children's emotional literacy as well as alleviating behaviour and mental health problems. We believe that the use of various forms of recognised therapies to help children fulfil their potential and overcome emotional and behavioural problems has reached a crucial stage in Canada. A prime need is to combine, co-ordinate and integrate the valuable skills that all therapists possess for the benefit of all children in need. |
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Since therapeutic work with children draws
its strength from a multi-disciplinary approach, it is vital to be
completely open in considering and accepting many different approaches for
working with children. Play therapy is a comparatively recent
discipline. Because of its relative newness it is important that
its evolution is encouraged, that new ideas and methods are considered,
tried and evaluated. PTC welcomes into membership anyone who has satisfactorily completed a recognised course for working therapeutically with children such as drama, art, music, dance and movement - as all these disciplines may be used on their own or as an integrative part of play therapy. They all have an equally valuable contribution to make. PTC is a forum for working together with a respect for each other's role. |
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Who are we
for? Practitioner Membership is open, at various levels, to ALL those working therapeutically with children AND also to those who have an interest in the subject:
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To act as a professional organisation for anyone working therapeutically with children in Canada. To promote the benefits of therapeutic work with children. To set standards and provide an ethical framework. To make training and other resources available for therapeutic work with children by working with training providers, disseminating information and accrediting appropriate courses in creative therapies. PTC aims to form links with a number of colleges and other specialised training providers which can offer a variety of Introductory, Certificate, Diploma, Supervisor and Trainer courses up to Post Graduate Level. To promote and advance discussion, education and research in play therapy, creative arts therapies and child psychotherapy. Our detailed objectives are set out formally in the Memorandum and Articles of Association. |
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Play Therapy Canada's constitution reflect s the principles of its founding members and those enacted successfully by PTI, PTUK and PTC.:
The governing documents are the Memorandum and Articles of Association, since the term ‘constitution’ is not a term which is generally used within the Companies Act and is not defined generally by the Act. These two documents together form a ‘constitution’. |
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Working With Other
Professional Bodies PTC's policy is to work both directly and through PTI and its affiliates with any other professional society, association and institution whose members work with children. Examples are:
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Our Role
in Regulation Children with emotional, behaviour and mental health problems are vulnerable clients. So very often are their parents and carers. Anyone at present can practice 'play therapy' without any training or clinical supervision and call themselves a 'Play Therapist' in Canada and in most of the countries of the world. This is obviously unsafe and unacceptable. PTC will support any legislation that requires a Play Therapist to be trained to reasonable, adequate standards and is required to adhere to other professional procedures. In the meantime PTC will adminster the PSA/PTUK standards, as stated above, in Canada to provide the assurance of high quality and effective practice. |
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