Description:  

In this workshop, participants will learn about supervision theories that can be applied when providing supervision for individuals seeking either clinical licensure and/or play therapy credentials who are providing child and/or play therapy. Participants will review strategies and considerations when utilizing experiential art techniques as a supervision tool, will review supervision practice skills and the Supervisor Complexity Model as they consider the typical development of supervision skills and competency applied when providing supervision.

Workshop Objectives:

1. Participants will consider the definition, functions and history of clinical and play therapy supervision.
2. Participants will review Psychotherapy-Based supervision models that can be applied when providing supervision for individuals seeking either clinical licensure and/or play therapy credentials who are providing child and/or play therapy.
3. Participants will consider the function and benefits of utilizing expressive art techniques while learning to apply the techniques in an ethical way to their supervisees’ developmental level when providing supervision for individuals seeking either clinical licensure and/or play therapy credentials who are providing child and/or play therapy.
4. Participants will review Developmental and Integrative models of supervision that can be applied when providing supervision for individuals seeking either clinical licensure and/or play therapy credentials who are providing child and/or play therapy.
5. Participants will learn a variety of supervision interventions to be utilized to facilitate a supervisee’s self-awareness and insight, as well as resolve reluctance and resistance as it relates to their clinical and play therapy practice.  Special consideration will be given to explore self-awareness and resistance specific to the use of touch in child/play therapy, engaging with parents of child clients and responding to the reactions of child clients.
6. Participants will review supervisor clinical and/or play therapy practice skills while learning strategies for facilitating positive and productive supervision meetings.
7. Participants will review the Supervisor Complexity Model as a developmental theory to assist in the knowledge of typical development of supervision skills and competency applied when providing supervision for individuals seeking either clinical licensure and/or play therapy credentials who are providing child and/or play therapy.

Instructor: Lori Peterson, LSCSW, LCSW, RPT-S