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Sand Tray Therapy Diploma Course

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10 Modules
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Multiple Choice Assessments

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What Will You Learn?

The Sand Tray Therapy Diploma Course provides a digestible, yet in-depth, explanation and analysis of this innovative, fun, and effective form of psychotherapy. You’ll learn about its origins, who can use it, how it works, the issues it can support, techniques it can be used alongside, its limitations, how a sand tray session is prepared and conducted, and the studies that prove its effectiveness.

Discover the origins of sand tray therapy, including its founders and the framework it’s based upon, how it works and the differences between sand tray therapy and sandplay. Explore the World Technique and how it’s used in sand tray therapy, and what humanistic psychology is.

Understand the beneficial application of sand tray therapy in adults, specifically couples and those with trauma, children (toddlers, young children, and adolescents), and families. We’ll also examine how sand tray therapy can be beneficial in reducing mental health issues, building coping mechanisms, assisting with recovery and aiding day-to-day life.

The course explores other techniques and holistic mental health approaches that can be incorporated into someone’s life alongside sand tray therapy, along with examining the limitations of the therapy.

You’ll be guided through how a typical sand tray session is prepared and conducted, including how the session changes upon the completion of the client’s ‘world’.

Finally, we’ll examine several studies, covering a variety of scenarios, that explore the effectiveness of sand tray therapy.

By studying this course, you will:

  • Discover the origins and framework of sand tray therapy
  • Understand how this therapy can be used with adults, children, and families
  • Learn about the issues that sand tray therapy can help with
  • Explore other techniques that can be used alongside sand tray therapy
  • Become familiar with the therapy’s limitations and criticisms
  • Learn how a typical sand tray session is prepared and conducted
  • Examine several studies that explore the effectiveness of sand tray therapy
A child in sand tray therapy accompanied by a therapist

Course Syllabus

What will I learn on the course?

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  • Introduction
  • Part 1: What is Sand Tray Therapy?
  • Part 2: Differences between Sand Tray Therapy and Sandplay
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 1 Assessment
  • Part 1: Introduction
  • Part 2: The Humanistic Approach
  • Part 3: Jungian Psychology
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 2 Assessment
  • Part 1: Couple’s Therapy
  • Part 2: Creating a Trauma Narrative
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 3 Assessment
  • Part 1: Young Children and Toddlers
  • Part 2: Older Children and Teens
  • Part 3: Family Therapy
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 4 Assessment
  • Part 1: Reducing Mental Health Issues
  • Part 2: Building Coping Mechanisms
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 5 Assessment
  • Part 1: Assisting with Recovery
  • Part 2: Assisting in Day-to-Day Life
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 6 Assessment
  • Part 1: Using Sand Tray Therapy With Other Therapies
  • Part 2: Using Other Therapies with Sand Tray Therapy
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 7 Assessment
  • Part 1: General Limitations
  • Part 2: Pushback from Adults
  • Part 3: The Debated Topic of Picture Interpretation
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 8 Assessment
  • Part 1: Setting Up
  • Part 2: During Therapy
  • Part 3: Aftermath
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Module 9 Assessment
  • Part 1: Introduction
  • Part 2: Sand Play Group Therapy
  • Part 3: STT and Children’s Self-Esteem
  • Part 4: STT for Sexually Abused Children
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • Key Learning Points
  • Conclusion
  • Module 10 Assessment
Who Would Benefit from This Course?

The Sand Tray Therapy Diploma Course will be beneficial to anyone with an interest in mental health or innovative psychotherapy techniques. It’ll be especially relevant if you’re considering a career in child therapy or already working in the field and looking to expand your expertise.

Additionally, parents of children of any age would benefit from taking this course, to learn new ways to bond with and help their child navigate their mental health.

A child in sand tray therapy talking with a therapist
Accreditations

The Sand Tray Therapy Diploma Course will take up to 150 hours to complete, working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course; it can be studied in your own time at your own pace.

This is a Level 3 course and will give you 150 CPD (Continued Professional Development) points.

Upon completion of your course assessments, you receive 2 certificates. A certificate from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificate displaying the number of CPD points earned from the course.

Many Centre of Excellence courses are Fully Accredited by the world’s leading professional membership association for natural medicine – The Complementary Medical Association (The CMA).

You can apply to join The CMA as a Student Member while you are still studying, and if you do so you will be eligible to use the post nominal letters SCMA after your name.

Upon graduation from a CMA Registered course you will be eligible to apply for CMA Membership and this will give you numerous professional benefits including being able to use the letters MCMA after your name – Member of The Complementary Medical Association. This will demonstrate your commitment to excellence and professionalism in the natural healthcare field.

Register with The CMA as a Student or fully qualified Practitioner via The CMA website where you will be asked to submit your certificate of graduation, and proof of insurance.

The CMA’s recommended insurers are Westminster global.

This course is endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme. Therefore, upon successful completion of this course, learners can also receive a certificate of achievement from Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary, which lists the details of all the units the learner has completed as part of the course. (This certificate is optional and costs an additional £25).

The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group, a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.

The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through their awarding organisations they have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. They are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.

Their knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables them to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.

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