Learning Objectives: Jungian Analytical Play Therapy: A Deeper Understanding of Children’s Play 

1. Describe the development of a child's psyche in Jungian Play Therapy (JPT).

2. Explain the meaning of the unconscious and its relationship to consciousness in children in JPT.

3. Identify archetypal material in JPT.

4. Explain the role of the ego in adaptive functioning in JPT.

5. Demonstrate how symptoms are a roadmap to the complex with which the child is struggling in JPT.

6. Discuss the development of a complex and proto-complex in JPT.

7. Explain how archetypal material is involved in complex formation in JPT.

8. Explain how the child’s thematic play is an extension of the unconscious struggle for the child in JPT.

9. Discuss the importance of temenos and demonstrate how to create it in JPT.

10. Describe ego inflation and its necessary role in complex confrontation in JPT.

11. Identify circummambulation in JPT.

12. Explain what confrontation with complex material looks and feels like in JPT.

13. Identify the symbolic nature of toys in JPT.