Full Description
Becoming and Being a Play Therapist: Play Therapy in Practice presents a rich and illuminating account of current play therapy practice, with an emphasis on becoming and being a play therapist and on some of the varied clinical contexts in which play therapists work. Written by members of British Association of Play Therapists, this book highlights the current complexity of play therapy practice in the UK and reflects the expertise of the collected authors in working with emotional, behavioural and mental health challenges in children and young people.
Divided into three parts, the book is designed to build on and consolidate the principles and professional/personal competences of play therapy practice. Key topics include:
Training and establishing oneself as a play therapist in the UK, a comprehensive guide.
The improvisational practitioner; therapist responses to resistance and aggressive play.
Systemic considerations in play therapy with birth families and adopters; advantages and challenges.
Case-study based explorations of play therapy across a range of service user groups, including childhood trauma, bereavement and sexual abuse, and agency contexts, including school and CAMHS settings.
Becoming and Being a Play Therapist will be relevant both for play therapy trainees and for qualified play therapists as well as for related professionals.
Contents
Introduction: Peter Ayling, Harriet Armstrong and Lisa Gordon Clark
Part 1: Becoming a Play Therapist
Chapter 1. Lisa Gordon Clark - Training Issues: Before, During and After
Chapter 2 Julie McCann: The play therapist's personal therapy
Chapter 3. Carol Platteuw - The Role of Clinical Supervision for Play Therapy Practice
Chapter 4. Anne Fullalove - The play therapy room: why it matters
Chapter 5. Harriet Armstrong - Setting up in Independent Practice as a Play Therapist
Part 2: Being a Play Therapist
Chapter 6. Linda St Louis - Being an ethical play therapist
Chapter 7. Karen McInnes - Being a playful therapist
Chapter 8. Simon Kerr-Edwards - Being an improvisational play therapist
Chapter 9. Peter Ayling - Containing feelings and setting limits in play therapy: working with aggression
Chapter 10. Jenny Reid - Time-limited play therapy
Part III- Play therapy in practice
Chapter 11. Ruth Lazarus and Carrie Waldron - Play Therapy within a CAMHS Setting
Chapter 12. Sonia Murray - Play Therapy in Schools
Chapter 13. Sharon Pearce: Narrative Group Play Therapy in a School Setting
Chapter 14. Tim Woodhouse - Play therapy with children affected by sexual abuse: developing awareness, safety and trust
Chapter 15. Chris Stone - Working with Bereavement and Loss in Play Therapy
Chapter 16. Lisa Waycott and Claire Carbis - Integrative Approaches to Working with Trauma
Chapter 17. Stuart Daniel - Play therapy and Polyvagal Theory: towards self-regulation for children with paediatric medical trauma
Chapter 18. Debra May: Working with Child Trauma through EMDR and play therapy
Chapter 19: Berni Stringer - Relational Approaches to play therapy: supporting adoptive and foster carers and their families
Chapter 20. Trudi Cowper - Working with Parents and Carers: Child Parent Relationship Therapy
Appendix 1: BAPT play therapy core competences
Appendix 2: BAPT's ethical basis for good practice in play therapy
Appendix 3: Sample contract
Index
