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.

About the Author

Contributors:

Jeffrey S. Ashby, Jessika Boles, Sue C. Bratton, Yi-Ju Cheng, Heather Coull, Janet Courtney, David A. Crenshaw, Sarah Daniels, Belinda Dean, 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, 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, RPT-S, 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 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. Drewes demonstrating 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 Oswego 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.

Reviews

For those of us on the front lines of teaching and mentoring the rising generations of play therapists, the idea that a second edition of our beloved Supervision Can be Playful has been in the works is exciting news. Taking a look inside, I was further thrilled to see the sheer breadth and depth of this extensively updated second edition, including the amount of new material, expanded focus on a global perspective and cultural humility in supervision. The editors have taken care to invite a very skilled group of authors to go beneath the surface of the supervision relationship and incorporate themes of trauma, attachment inclusion, and creativity in this important role. Absolutely required reading for play therapy leaders and practitioners everywhere.

-- Ann Beckley-Forest, LCSW-R, RPT-S, licensed clinical social worker, registered play therapy supervisor

The first edition, published in 2008, was an excellent resource for play therapy supervisors. This second edition is a welcome addition to the field and a valuable source of updated information, useful for training, teaching, and clinical supervision in a variety of settings, such as academic, child welfare, training clinics, treatment centers, and private practices. It provides hands-on, creative methods for specialty supervision in play therapy tailored to those working with children, useful to both experienced play therapy supervisors and to other types of supervisory clinicians who practice with children but who are less familiar with play therapy theory and intervention.

-- Patricia Pernicano, PsyD, licensed clinical psychologist; author of Metaphorical Stories for Child Therapy: Of Magic and Miracles

What a worthwhile book! It fills in an arena that has been left impoverished in our field: how do supervisor and supervisee create a parallel universe of play between them that mirrors the playfulness of the therapy with the child? Focusing on both the content and process of supervision, this is a book that will be much read and cherished by all play therapists and their supervisors.

-- Steven Tuber, PhD, ABPP, City College of New York; author of Attachment, Play, and Authenticity: Winnicott in a Clinical Context and co-author of Starting Treatment with Children and Adolescents



Book Information
ISBN 9781538167472
Author Athena A. Drewes
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 898g
Dimensions(mm) 257mm * 179mm * 26mm