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Play Therapist within Community Health

  • 1.  Play Therapist within Community Health

    Posted 24-10-2022 17:13
    Hi Folks,
    Reaching out to the NDS Community to find out if any community health centers employ Play Therapists?
    And if so whether they'd be willing to share their experience.
    As a relatively 'new' profession within Australia or perhaps only more recently being accepted and recognised as an modality for child developmental support/therapy/psychosocial therapy/rehabilitation 

    - enterprise agreements (best fit as not clearly identified in usual awards)
    - registration (multiple bodies exist for play therapist - APTA, ACLTA, APPTA, PTPA, PTAU)
    - funding - i.e. NDIS - do you use 'other professional' line item, no Medicare/private health recognition, how to meet requirements of state funded services 
    - support for clinical supervision (as required by some accreditation bodies)
    - how does this profession interplay with mental health services versus allied health therapies 

    Thanks in advance

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    Gus Campbell
    Child Health Manager (Bellarine Community Health)
    Gus.Campbell@bch.org.au
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