Becoming and Being a Play Therapist

Peter Ayling is a qualified play therapist and social worker who has specialised in working with children and young people within the care system for 25 years. He worked for 14 years within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) for Looked After Children. Pete currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Social Work and maintains a small, private play therapy practice. Harriet Armstrong obtained a Master's Degree in Play Therapy from the University of Roehampton in 2009. She has since worked as a play therapist privately and in schools with children who have suffered a wide range of trauma, disorders and difficulties. Harriet has been Chair of PR and Communications of BAPT and is currently Joint Vice-Chair. Lisa Gordon Clark trained as a play therapist at Roehampton, following several years as a primary school teacher, and has since worked both in private practice and as resident play therapist at a Child and Family Centre in London. Lisa is currently Programme Convener of the Play Therapy MA at the University of Roehampton and Fellow of the HEA.

Introduction: Peter Ayling, Harriet Armstrong and Lisa Gordon Clark

Part 1: Becoming a Play Therapist

Chapter 1. Lisa Gordon Clark - Training Issues: Before, During and After

Chapter 2 Julie McCann: The play therapist's personal therapy

Chapter 3. Carol Platteuw - The Role of Clinical Supervision for Play Therapy Practice

Chapter 4. Anne Fullalove - The play therapy room: why it matters

Chapter 5. Harriet Armstrong - Setting up in Independent Practice as a Play Therapist

Part 2: Being a Play Therapist

Chapter 6. Linda St Louis - Being an ethical play therapist

Chapter 7. Karen McInnes - Being a playful therapist

Chapter 8. Simon Kerr-Edwards – Being an improvisational play therapist

Chapter 9. Peter Ayling - Containing feelings and setting limits in play therapy: working with aggression

Chapter 10. Jenny Reid - Time-limited play therapy

Part III- Play therapy in practice

Chapter 11. Ruth Lazarus and Carrie Waldron - Play Therapy within a CAMHS Setting

Chapter 12. Sonia Murray - Play Therapy in Schools

Chapter 13. Sharon Pearce: Narrative Group Play Therapy in a School Setting

Chapter 14. Tim Woodhouse - Play therapy with children affected by sexual abuse: developing awareness, safety and trust

Chapter 15. Chris Stone – Working with Bereavement and Loss in Play Therapy

Chapter 16. Lisa Waycott and Claire Carbis - Integrative Approaches to Working with Trauma

Chapter 17. Stuart Daniel - Play therapy and Polyvagal Theory: towards self-regulation for children with paediatric medical trauma

Chapter 18. Debra May: Working with Child Trauma through EMDR and play therapy

Chapter 19: Berni Stringer - Relational Approaches to play therapy: supporting adoptive and foster carers and their families

Chapter 20. Trudi Cowper – Working with Parents and Carers: Child Parent Relationship Therapy

Appendix 1: BAPT play therapy core competences

Appendix 2: BAPT's ethical basis for good practice in play therapy

Appendix 3: Sample contract

Index