1st Edition

Play Therapy Supervision A Practical Guide to Models and Best Practices

Edited By Staci L. Born, Casey E. Baker Copyright 2023
    266 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    266 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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!

    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

     

    Biography

    Staci L. Born, EdD, LMFT, RPT-S, is an associate professor of counseling in the School of Education, Counseling, and Human Development at South Dakota State University.

    Casey E. Baker, EdD, LMHC, RPT-S, is core faculty in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Capella University.