A Shift in Mindset: Virtual Training Benefits ERIKA WALKER, LSCSW, LCSW, LICSW, RPT
in mindset of what constitutes a traditional approach to learning us all. Now that we are ‘back to normal,’ more and more trainings are transitioning back to in-person
presentations. Virtual trainings, though, are here to stay and this is not a bad thing.
participants. With chat
features, participants can share resources,
ask and answer questions, connect with each other, and can do so without interrupting the presenter or bothering the other participants. Further connection with other participants can happen in a smaller setting with breakout rooms, too.
expensive to participants and to presenters - sometimes up to 44% less overall. Participants are spared the costs of accommodation, meals, and other travel expense when they complete the training into schedules, lessening the time away from work.
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been able to gain access. The internet allows participants to attend trainings all over the world, regardless of where they are located, and gives them the opportunity to learn from other cultures and disciplines while opening up connections on a world-wide level. For many clinicians, this type of connection might only happen at national and international conferences otherwise.
Lastly, virtual trainings offer a way for introverts and individuals presence by way of keeping your camera on. They do not, however, allows for participants to control the stimuli around them, too. Participants do not have to be distracted by others chatting at their tables, nor how loud the speaker is talking. They don’t have to worry about the overhead lighting being too bright, nor the temperature of the room because they are in complete control of it in their own space. Additionally, virtual trainings allow those with ADA requirements and dietary restrictions to monitor their own needs without added
In-person trainings can be mentally and emotionally draining for some in a way that virtual trainings can be for others. One is not better than the other and it all comes down to how each individual
There are advocates preferring more in-person hours and those wanting more online training hours for credentialing. However, APT’s format delivery policy demonstrates its willingness to evolve with vicissitudes in the professional landscape and embrace credential candidates to learn play therapy through the same formats that they may be delivering it from. This is of particular importance given that future pandemics are predicted to be a cyclical occurrence return to telemental health play therapy as primary means of service after obtaining appropriate education, training, and supervised
Further, advocates purport that in-person training comprises a valued parallel process that is mirrored in the interpersonal processes between the play therapist and their client. However, credentialed play therapists who provided telemental health interpersonal process translated whether providing in-person play emphasizes the importance for play therapists to have access to an adequate knowledge base, best practice guidelines, and training opportunities to practice telemental health play therapy and in- person play therapy to the same standard of care.
format delivery policy recognizes that both in-person and online live play therapy training offer added value to developing well-rounded play therapists.
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