Play Therapy Supervision: A Practical Guide to Models and Best Practices

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!

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.