Dr. Gaskill is a
ChildTrauma Fellow and the Clinical Director at
Sumner Mental Health Center in Wellington, KS. He is also the
Children's Services Coordinator for the mental health center. Dr. Gaskill
has worked in community mental health for nearly 30 years. In his
work with children, Dr. Gaskill has developed numerous programs for
children and their parents; including child development classes, parenting
classes, child-parent relationship training, attachment enhancement
treatment groups, therapeutic alternative schools, therapeutic preschools,
after school programs, therapeutic preschools, and juvenile offender
programs.
In 1994 a grant from the Methodist
Health Ministry Fund helped establish Sumner Mental Health Center as a
regional training center for play therapy and Child-Parent Relationship
Training. This training has focused on birth to age five populations
through Early Head Start and Head Start programs, as well as older
populations of children through community mental health.
Dr. Gaskill is on adjunct faculty at
Wichita State University where he teaches play therapy classes, child
psychopathology, and supervises play therapy practicums. He has also
presented numerous workshops on play therapy and attachment enhancement
for various agencies and association conventions.
Dr. Gaskill was the first
Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor in Kansas. He has been a member of
the Kansas Play Therapy Association Board since its inception and served on the national APT
nominations committee. He also serves on a number of national,
state, and local advisory committees regarding the delivery of educational
and mental health issues for children.
Biography
