Supervision Can Be Playful

Book excerpt: 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