This book offers a unique perspective on clinical supervision, foregrounding experiential techniques, and a refreshing, playful approach to professional development.
Supervision Can Be Playful: Techniques for Child and Play Therapist Supervisors, Second Edition offers a holistic approach covering contextual factors, theory, practice, special topics, international voices, practical support, supervisor and supervisee self-care, and play within supervision itself. This book balances theory-driven chapters with intervention-driven chapters offering hands-on, creative methods for specialty supervision in play therapy. The editors are themselves internationally renowned practitioners, and they have brought together practitioners and educators recognized in the field. The chapters have been carefully considered and are inclusive, contemporary, comprehensive, and practitioner-friendly. This volume is useful for training, teaching, and clinical supervision, to provide educational and practical support for clinicians and supervisors from beginning levels to the most experienced supervisor.
New to this Second Edition:
Substantially expanded over the original with 24 new chapters and 5 upgraded and revised original chapters
Provides the groundwork and foundations of supervision, including supervision of supervision
Expanded creative and culturally-sensitive supervision interventions and case examples, including work with parents or primary caregivers, families, and groups
Attention to supervision in the global context
Multicultural competency and cultural humility, and self-compassion and self-care for play therapists and supervisors in stand-alone chapters and woven into the fabric of the book
Inclusion of trauma-focused supervision and special settings
Honors the growth of the connection of play and neurobiology
Chapters include a diverse range of approaches to play therapy and play therapy supervision for growing supervisees and supervisors
Attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted child clients, supervisees, supervisors and those providing supervision, particularly remote supervision
Jeffrey S. Ashby, Jessika Boles, Sue C. Bratton, Yi-Ju Cheng, Heather Coull, Janet Courtney, David A. Crenshaw, Sarah Daniels, Belinda Dean, Athena A. Drewes, Lennis G. Echterling, Lyrica Fils-Aime, Ken Gardner, Phoebe Godfrey, Paris Goodyear-Brown, Robert Grant, Natalie Hadiprodjo, Cary Hamilton, Lesley Harvey, Sarah Hickson, Linda E. Homeyer, Sue Jennings, Vanessa Kellner, Sueann Kenney-Noziska, Simon Kerr-Edwards, Terry Kottman, Jamie Langley, Ariel Marrero, Mary Morrison Bennett, Jodi Ann Mullen, Claire Niven, Yumiko Ogawa, Kristie K. Opiola, Judi Parson, Dee C. Ray, Kate Renshaw, Bridget Sarah, Karen Stagnitti, Anne Stewart, Alyssa Swan, Kaleb A. Thompson, Rise Van Fleet, Marieke van Nuenen, William F. Whelan, Lorri Yasenik, Zhou De-Hui Ruth
About the Editors:
Athena A. Drewes, PsyD, MA, MS Ed., RPT-S, is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified school psychologist and Registered Play Therapist and Supervisor. Formerly Director of Training and Director of the American Psychological Association Doctoral Psychology Internship at Astor Services for Children and Families in New York, she currently lives in Ocala, FL. She has over 45 years of clinical and supervision experience with complex trauma, sexual abuse, foster care children and adolescents, in school, outpatient and inpatient settings. She is former Board of Director of the Association for Play Therapy and Founder and President Emeritus of the NY Association for Play Therapy. She is a frequently invited guest lecturer around the United States and internationally around the world, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, England, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and Taiwan. She is a renowned writer of play therapy and has published numerous book chapters, journal articles and edited/co-edited twelve play therapy books. Her most recent books are Play-based interventions for childhood anxieties, Fears, and phobias; Puppet play therapy; Play therapy in middle childhood with a companion DVD of Dr. Drewesdemonstrating her work in Prescriptive Integrative Play Therapy with the American Psychological Association;and co-edited with Dr. Charles Schaefer The Therapeutic powers of play. 20 Core agents of change.
Jodi Ann Mullen, PhD, LMHC, RPT-S is a professor at SUNY 'swego in the Counseling & Psychological Services Department and the coordinator of the Graduate Certificate Program in Play Therapy. She is also the Director of Integrative Counseling Services in Central New York. Dr. Mullen is an international speaker, author, credentialed play therapist and play therapy supervisor. She routinely provides clinical supervision and consultation for clinicians from across the United States and from Ireland, Australia, England, Jamaica, and Canada. Dr. Mullen has over 25 years of experience in the field of counseling and play therapy. She has authored books, book chapters and journal articles in play therapy, counseling children and adolescents, grief counseling and parenting. Dr. Mullen is a former clinical editor for the Play Therapy magazine and was the 2008 recipient of the Key Award for Professional Training & Education through the Association for Play Therapy.
List of Contributors xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Supervisory Styles and Critical Considerations Supervision: Models, Principles, and Process Issues Melissa Luke 7 Sanding in Supervision: A Sand Tray Technique for Clinical Supervisors Kristi A. Gibbs Eric J. Green 27 When Approaches Collide: A Decision-Making Model for Play Therapists Ken Gardner Lorri Yasenik 39 Through a Cross-Cultural Lens: How Viewing Childhood as a Distinct Culture Impacts Supervision Jodi Ann Mullen 69 Culturally Competent Supervision of Child and Play Therapists Athena A. Drewes 77 Supervising Special Populations Supervising Counselors Who Work with Special Needs Children Jody J. Fiorini 93 The Supervision Process: Working with Traumatized Children in an Outpatient Mental Health Clinic Susan Hansen Judith M. Dagirmanjian 111 Supervision of Play Therapists Working with Aggressive Children David A. Crenshaw 129 Supervising Filial Therapy Louise Guerney 145 Supervision of Group Play Therapy Dee Ray Yumiko Ogawa 159 Enhancing Role Play Activities in PlayTherapy Supervision Groups Sandra B. Frick-Helms 173 Facilitating Self-Awareness The Play Space of Supervision Arthur Robbins 191 Expressive Arts in a Humanistic Approach to Play Therapy Supervision: Facilitating Therapist Self-Awareness Sue Bratton Peggy Ceballos Angela Sheely 211 Supervision in the Sand Mary Morrison Linda E. Homeyer 233 Countertransference Play: Informing and Enhancing Therapist Self-Awareness through Play Lawrence Rubin Eliana Gil 249 Potpourri of Playful Techniques Playful Activities for Supervisors and Trainers Evangeline Munns 271 Playful Supervision: Sharing Exemplary Exercises in the Supervision of Play Therapists Anne Stewart Lennis G. Echterling 281 Index 309 About the Editors 325
