CCPT Purism: How Garry Landreth Established and Preserved the Integrity of the Child-Centered Model

you're listening to the play therapy podcast with Dr Brena Hicks your source for centered and focused play therapy coaching hi I'm Dr Brena Hicks the kid counselor this is the play therapy podcast where you get a master class in child centered play therapy and practical support and application for your work with children and their families in today's episode we are talking further in the ccpt purism series today about Gary landrith the man himself and what a fun series I really truly am enjoying this and I know that you all have given me feedback so I appreciate it by the way if you are new to the podcast maybe this is the very first episode you've ever listened to so glad you're here welcome you have found an absolutely supportive encouraging amazing community so really glad that you're here not to say don't listen finish this episode but then please go back and listen in order from episode University of North Texas he actually founded the center for play therapy there he was deep ly influenced by axline's work because it was so firmly rooted in person centered theory he shared with me on a phone call a while ago that he was communicating with Carl Rogers directly several times communicating with axline several times and therefore he took all of that information and spent decades teaching and writing and supervising and advocating for the pure practice of ccpt so why did he name it child- centered play therapy I think it's important to kind of dive into that for a second it emphasizes that the child is Central it is not the therapist it is it is not an objective it's not a treatment plan or a goal and this separated this model from other play therapy approaches that tended to be more directive or structured or Proto proto l based and when you think about the name if you break it down who leads the child what's Central the child's internal process and