Description:

This webinar will provide an overview of theoretically informed (psychodynamic, person-centered, cognitive-behavioral), developmental, and integrative models for providing play therapy supervision. Topics to be discussed include: characteristics and skills of effective play therapy supervisors; working with countertransference and parallel process; addressing compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout; and self-care for supervisees as well as supervisors. Particular focus will be on developing a personal model for providing both in-person and telehealth play therapy supervision.​

Learning Objectives:

• Name three theoretically informed models of play therapy supervision
• Describe the philosophy of developmental play therapy supervision
• List three essential skills of play therapy supervisors.
• Identify the difference between compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout.
• Describe two ways to help play therapy supervisees with compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.