Reflections on Play Therapy
A Narrative through Training, Theory, and Practice
- 188 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book explores an extensive range of questions and challenges within the training, theory, and practice of play therapy, with the aim of providing a stimulating and thought-provoking debate around many of the issues and dilemmas therapists experience.
Drawing upon the author's own experience as both a therapist and trainer/educator/supervisor, the volume grapples with questions of power, privilege, self-care, and mental health. It additionally addresses the wider challenges and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, and international conflict upon practice and personhood. Questions around training are explored as well as specific practice challenges relating to managing limits and boundaries within play therapy and working with adopted children. Throughout the book, the author will reflect upon aspects of personal and clinical experience, sharing something of his own developmental narrative through training, teaching, and practice.
Reflections on Play Therapy will serve as a core text for trainee play therapists and also a valuable resource for any experienced clinicians working therapeutically with children, young people, and families.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- A note on confidentiality
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Wherever you go, there you are: pathways to training and beyond
- 2 Playful pedagogy: the role of reflective, experiential learning within play therapy training
- 3 On not trusting the process
- 4 Stormy weather: on not being good enough
- 5 I walk, therefore I am: paths to self-care
- 6 Power, privilege and intersectionality: the politics of the playroom
- 7 A postcard from the edge: reflections on liminality and the role of play as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic
- 8 A view from the boundary
- 9 Weather report: the climate emergency and child mental health
- 10 Taken: play therapy and children in care
- 11 Autumn leaves: reflections on endings
- Index
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