Modern Play Therapy (MPT) is an exciting new field exploring the application of traditional play therapy techniques and philosophies across the lifespan through the lenses of Interpersonal Neurobiology and Psychedelic Neuroscience.
MPT was established by Michele Galea Bertelle, a Registered Play Therapist with the national Association for Play Therapy, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapist with Journey Clinical, and Continuing Education student with the Mindsight Institute.
Modern Play Therapy brings together an immense body of data on early childhood development and the therapeutic powers of play, with an emerging understanding of neuroplasticity and human growth/neurophysiological propagation across the lifespan. What MPT means at its core is that Mindfulness and Playfulness enhance us!
The field of Modern Play Therapy seeks to explore an evidence-based foundation that supports opportunities for MPT philosophies and techniques to be applied by professionals and non-professionals across a broad range of settings, with a diverse range of populations, for human enhancement of all kinds. There is currently much interest in the potential of MPT's contributions to psychotherapeutic, health/medical, educational, personal and community growth around the world.
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Cutting edge science demonstrates that neural integration – the linkage among differentiated aspects of the brain – allows for flexibility and adaptability, and expresses itself outwardly as harmony, kindness and compassion. When this groundbreaking neuroscience is merged with attachment theory, a fascinating inquiry continues about how the right hemispheres of our brains interact within the context of our interpersonal interactions to regulate our emotions and process our sense of self.
Researchers, practitioners, and advocates build and expand on previous research with current evidence-based understanding of the neurophysiological processes underlying the use of psychedelics for illness and wellness.
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) provides evidence-based information about psychedelic substances and integrated treatments.
Psychedelics Research and Psilocybin Therapy is underway at Johns Hopkins Medical Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, with the ultimate aspiration of opening new ways to support human thriving.
Innovators in the field of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy, Journey Clinical trains and supports the largest network of licensed mental health professionals in the world, to deliver evidence-based Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy treatments, starting with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP).
It is important to consider some foundations for understanding Modern Play Therapy, rooted in the training and professional standards of a Registered Play Therapist.
This national professional society promotes the value of play, play therapy, and credentialed play therapists, with a mission to enhance the development of mental health of all people including emotional, psychological, and social well-being. The APT embraces increased appreciation of play and play therapy by the public, ethical practice of play therapy informed by research, education, and training, and recognition of education grounded in seminal/historically significant play therapy theories.
Schaefer, C. E., & Drewes, A. A. (Eds.), (2014). The therapeutic powers of play: 20 core agents of change (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
A collaborative publication from task force, chairpeople, and ethics committee members of the APT, the next regular review of the Play Therapy Best Practices document is set to occur in 2025. Read More about Why Play Therapy Makes A Difference
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