Telehealth and Play-Based Interventions

Description

Children don’t always have the words to tell us what’s wrong—but in play, they show us everything. For clinicians providing telehealth services to children and families, this course bridges the gap between in-person connection and digital care.

Telehealth and play-based therapy are not mutually exclusive—and with the right skills and strategies, you can confidently and ethically deliver high-impact support that meets your young clients right where they are.

Dr. Amy Marschall, Psy.D., a licensed clinical psychologist, trauma-informed therapist, and author of Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox, brings years of hands-on experience using creative, evidence-based interventions with children and adolescents. Dr. Marschall’s extensive telehealth practice and her neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-sensitive lens provide the depth and clarity clinicians need to serve kids through virtual platforms.

With a practical, engaging, and ethically grounded approach, Dr. Marschall teaches you how to select, design, and deliver interventions that resonate with young clients and their caregivers—without sacrificing rapport, creativity, or clinical quality.

Topics include translating in-person play techniques to virtual platforms, navigating parent involvement, creating your own interventions based on theory and treatment goals, assessing client appropriateness for telehealth, and using virtual tools like Minecraft, sand trays, and collaborative family games to enhance therapeutic outcomes.

Key Takeaways:

• Telehealth Play Strategies that Work: Learn a wide range of virtual interventions you can immediately implement, from non-directive play to structured activities and creative arts.

• Confident Parent Communication: Build your confidence in explaining the benefits and limitations of telehealth to caregivers using ready-to-go scripts.

• Clinical Creativity with Ethical Integrity: Understand how to document, adapt, and innovate interventions while staying within your scope and meeting ethical standards.

Why this course?

• Evidence-Based + Real-World Tested: Gain strategies from an instructor with years of experience treating kids via telehealth—even with children as young as three.

• Immediately Actionable: Leave with tools, scripts, games, and platforms you can use right away, plus the knowledge to adapt and develop your own.

• Trusted, Mission-Driven Provider: Offered by the Telehealth Certification Institute, a leader in behavioral health education with a mission to empower professionals with the skills to deliver the highest quality care.

Learning Objectives:

• Critically analyze research behind the efficacy of telehealth with play-based interventions.

• Construct scripts to educate clients and their parents about the benefits and limitations of telehealth with children.

• Employ at least ten play-based telehealth interventions in clinical practice and document their use in notes and treatment plans.

• Design, create, and implement additional play-based telehealth interventions based on theory and technical skills from this presentation.

• Integrate in-person play interventions in a telehealth platform effectively and following protocols for evidence-based play and teletherapy.

Join this course to feel more confident, equipped, and inspired in your work with children and families. Whether you’re just beginning to explore telehealth with younger clients or looking to expand your therapeutic toolkit, this course offers the guidance, tools, and ethical grounding you need.

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Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study course that consists of 360 minutes of video instruction, a post-test and a course evaluation.

Course Details

Availability: 

From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: 

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: 

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to Attend: 

Course access and completion instructions.

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructor

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

Credit Hours:

This course consists of 6 continuing education hours of credit.

Counselors:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0048.

Marriage and Family Therapists: 

Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations.  You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0135, effective May 8, 2025.

Social Workers:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 6 clinical continuing education credits.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.

Addiction Professionals:

This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits, effective 2/20/2024. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.

Psychologists:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0128.

Art Therapists: 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093.

Other Professionals:

This course qualifies for 360 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations.  Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

This is a non-interactive, self-study course.

Accommodations and Policies

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