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This book offers a unique perspective on clinical supervision, foregrounding experiential techniques and offering 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, and speaks from the “experience of clinical supervision.” This volume is useful for training, teaching, and clinical supervision with clearly organized and logically-positioned chapters, to provide educational and practical support for clinicians and supervisors from beginning levels to the most experienced supervisor. The overall approach to this second edition demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the specialist demands of supervision for child therapists. The editors are themselves internationally renowned practitioners and they have brought together practitioners and educators recognized in the field to contribute from their expertise. The structure of the book addresses key issues in complementary sequence that builds up the reader's knowledge and understanding of the multi-faceted layers that can support truly interpersonal, creative, and culturally sensitive supervision. The chapters have been carefully considered and are inclusive, contemporary, comprehensive and practitioner-friendly.

This book offers a unique perspective on clinical supervision, foregrounding experiential techniques and offering 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, and speaks from the “experience of clinical supervision.” This volume is useful for training, teaching, and clinical supervision with clearly organized and logically-positioned chapters, to provide educational and practical support for clinicians and supervisors from beginning levels to the most experienced supervisor. The overall approach to this second edition demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the specialist demands of supervision for child therapists. The editors are themselves internationally renowned practitioners and they have brought together practitioners and educators recognized in the field to contribute from their expertise. The structure of the book addresses key issues in complementary sequence that builds up the reader's knowledge and understanding of the multi-faceted layers that can support truly interpersonal, creative, and culturally sensitive supervision. The chapters have been carefully considered and are inclusive, contemporary, comprehensive and practitioner-friendly.

This indispensable workbook successfully combines the foundational content needed to orient play therapists to the child-centered approach with an engaging series of reflective and experiential activities designed to help develop therapeutic competence. The many activities included here allow readers to engage in an interactive process to learn the philosophy and skills of child-centered play therapy: seeing the world through the child's eyes, empathizing, tracking, setting limits, recognizing childhood as culture, identifying themes and stages of therapy, and more. Throughout, the authors provide a personal backdrop for learning and living the child-centered play therapy philosophy, based on their many years conducting and supervising play therapy sessions. Both budding and seasoned play and child therapists stand to gain richly from their insights.

Supervision Can Be Playful offers clinical supervisors of mental health professionals a comprehensive and thoughtful resource. The text focuses on the clinical supervision of child and play therapists, with supervision interventions that can be augmented for use with mental health professionals who provide supervision to adolescent and adult therapists. The perspectives discussed regarding the role of the clinical supervisor are universal and readers will find them relevant regardless of the age group they are working with. The text addresses the roles and processes of clinical supervision from a unique playful perspective, and from an eclectic theoretical orientation. Each chapter author offers a piece of the supervision puzzle and offers the reader clear guidelines for implementing techniques and the rationale behind them.