Core CCPT Resource Library

A comprehensive collection of practical, child-centered tools for therapists, caregivers, teachers, school counselors, and other professionals supporting children across home, school, and therapeutic settings.

The Core CCPT Resource Library brings together more than 30 printable resources grounded in Child-Centered Play Therapy principles. Each resource is designed to help adults look beneath behavior, respond with greater understanding, strengthen connection, and support children’s emotional growth without relying on pressure, punishment, or adult-directed solutions.

This collection includes:

Therapist Tools & Downloads

Resources for case conceptualization, caregiver consultations, session reflection, documentation, limit setting, crisis response, and explaining the play therapy process.

Caregiver Toolkit: Supporting Growth Through Connection

Practical language, connection rituals, regulation supports, planning pages, and child-centered strategies caregivers can use during everyday challenges.

School-Based Support Toolkit: Connection-First Practices

Classroom language, co-regulation strategies, collaboration tools, behavior reframes, and practical resources for supporting regulation, relationships, and readiness to learn.

Topics include:

• Behavior as communication

• Connection-focused caregiver and classroom language

• Co-regulation and nervous system support

• Child-centered limit setting using the ACT model

• Supporting big feelings without immediately fixing them

• Case conceptualization and session reflection

• Caregiver consultations and parent education

• Play themes and the play therapy process

• Classroom connection and emotional safety

• Collaboration across home, school, and therapy

• Progress notes and professional documentation

• Structure, flexibility, and predictable routines

These resources can be printed, referenced during consultations, shared with caregivers when appropriate, or used to support reflection and collaboration across settings.

Ideal for:

• Play therapists

• Residents and supervisees

• Child and family therapists

• School counselors and social workers

• Teachers and student-support professionals

• Caregivers seeking connection-focused support

This is a digital resource collection. No physical product will be mailed.

The Core CCPT Resource Library does not include specialty collections addressing school transitions, separation and divorce, blended families, or RPT tracking. These collections are available separately or as part of the Complete IPC Resource Library.