Supervision Can Be Playful: Techniques for Child and Play Therapist Supervisors - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1538167476 ISBN 13: 9781538167472

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023

Synopsis

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 supervisionExpanded creative and culturally-sensitive supervision interventions and case examples, including work with parents or primary caregivers, families, and groupsAttention to supervision in the global contextMulticultural 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 settingsHonors the growth of the connection of play and neurobiologyChapters include a diverse range of approaches to play therapy and play therapy supervision for growing supervisees and supervisorsAttention to how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted child clients, supervisees, supervisors and those providing supervision, particularly remote supervision

About this title

About the Author

Athena A. Drewes is a licensed 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 is semi-retired and 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 has is renowned writer on play therapy and has published numerous book chapters, journal articles and edited/co-edited twelve play therapy books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538167476
• ISBN 13: 9781538167472
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 444
• Editor: Drewes Athena A.