Participants of this workshop will focus on
implementing Lego - based play therapy techniques central to work with empathy
skills, social
skills, perspective taking, healthy
friendships and learn how Legos can be used in connection with play therapy treatment goals and positive behavior reinforcement.
Specifically, we
implemented a dyadic
friendship intervention in the context of a summer treatment program (STP).50 In addition to the standard STP interventions, 32 children were paired with a «buddy» with whom they were afforded special privileges, were coached in
friendship - making and conflict resolution
skills by «buddy coaches,» and parents were asked to get the children together outside the STP each week.