Early Recollections in Play Therapy Supervision/Consultation

Sometimes your play therapy supervisees/consultees get “stuck” when working with specific child clients or their parent(s).  Sometimes they might even have a pattern in the kinds of cases where they struggle with the client or the situation.  These experiences are sometimes related to the play therapists’ counter-transference or to some other factor that prevents them from feeling comfortable and confident about their work with those clients.  When play therapists feel “de-skilled” like this, one method of helping them get “un-stuck” is to invite them to explore their early recollections—personal memories that can contain information that help them reconnect with their strengths, re-examine their therapeutic strategies, and reconsider their therapeutic contract with their play therapy clients and their parents.  This can be a fascinating supervision tool for helping play therapists move forward in their relationships with difficult clients. 

Due to COVID-19 health concerns, this one-time online event has been approved by APT for 4 CONTACT CE Hours. 

APT Provider # 99-055

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the process of gathering early recollections from play therapy supervisees/consultees.

2. Explain the rationale for using play therapists’ early recollections during supervision/consultation.

3.  Explain how a supervisor/consultant can use play therapists’ early recollections to explore the supervisees’/consultees’ strengths as play therapists.

4.  Describe how a supervisor/consultant can use play therapists’ early recollections to explore the strategies supervisees/consultees are using in their work with specific clients and their parents.

5.  Explain how a supervisor/consultant can use play therapists’ early recollections to help supervisees/consultees examine (and perhaps adjust) the social contract for their play therapy relationship with specific clients and their parents.