Full Description
Play therapy is one of the fastest-growing specialty areas in mental health. Understanding the skills, knowledge, and strategies that make play therapy supervision effective is essential in supporting the integrity and needs of a thriving field.
Play Therapy Supervision: A Practical Guide to Models and Best Practices is an all-encompassing play therapy supervision compendium. In these pages, current and prospective play therapy professionals and supervisors will find effective strategies for engaging in supervision, with literature that is firmly rooted in empirical research, and practical examples. Useful for novice and experienced supervisors, this book describes best practices in supervision and contemporary topics for building an effective play therapy supervision practice. This text also emphasizes the critical importance of cultural humility in play therapy supervision. Other important features include:
Ethical and legal issues in play therapy supervision
Building a play therapy supervision relationship
Evaluation in play therapy supervision
Technology in play therapy supervision, including extended reality
School-based play therapy supervision
Techniques in play therapy supervision: mindfulness, sand tray, self-compassion, art and movement, and more!
Contents
SECTION 1: The Foundation
1 History and Overview of Play Therapy Supervision
CASEY BAKER
2 Cultural Humility and Social Justice in Play Therapy Supervision
LATRICE L. DOWTIN
3 Models of Clinical Supervision in Play Therapy Supervision
STACI BORN, NAOMI TIMM-DAVIS, AND EMILY GISLASON
4 Best Practices and Ethical Considerations in Play Therapy Supervision
CARRIE LONGEST
SECTION 2: The Process
5 Building the Play Therapy Supervisory Relationship: Utilizing the Therapeutic Powers of Play Can Support Effective Supervision
KENISHA W. GORDON
6 Delivering Play Therapy Supervision: Function, feedback, and formats
LYNN O'BRIEN
7 Evaluation in Play Therapy Supervision
CORIE SCHOENEBERG AND RENEE TURNER
8 Play Therapy Issues in Supervision
REBEKAH BYRD AND YUMIKO OGAWA
SECTION 3: Special Topics
9 Technology in Play Therapy Supervision
EDWARD (FRANC) HUDSPETH
10 School-Based Play Therapy Supervision
AMANDA WINBURN AND KENYA G. BLEDSOE
11 Touch Considerations in Infant and Early Childhood Play Therapy Reflective Supervision
JANET A. COURTNEY
SECTION 4: Playful Supervision Strategies
12 Sandtray Techniques in Play Therapy Supervision
CRYSTAL BRASHEAR, DONNA HICKMAN, REBECCA MATHEWS, AND NANCY THOMAS
13 Supporting Self-Compassion in Play Therapist Supervision
STACI BORN AND CHARLOTTE HECKMANN
14 Mindfulness-Based Techniques in Play Therapy Supervision
MICHELLE M. PLISKE
15 Art and Movement in Play Therapy Supervision: Working Through Inevitable Trauma Stuckness
SARAH D. STAUFFER AND MICHELLE M. PLISKE
16 Virtual Reality and Supervision
JESSICA STONE
