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Personal Process in Child-Centred Play Therapy Personal Process in Child-Centred Play Therapy provides a very specific exploration of the play therapy process from the personal perspective of the play therapist. This volume examines the personal challenges, opportunities, losses and gains, and numerous obstacles that one has to negotiate through the course of both training to become a play therapist and working as a qualified clinician with children who have complex life difficulties. The book aims to offer a forum within which the role, function and process of the “personal” within play therapy can be explored. Bringing together a number of experienced play therapists, the book shares often deeply personal accounts of their experience of training and clinical practice. Chapters challenge the unspoken therapist taboos of shame, childhood trauma, vulnerability and grief, shining a light on the more hidden areas of therapist experience. Clinical issues around the unconscious process are also explored, but once again from the personal position of the play therapist, rather than the child. With a unique and distinct perspective on the therapeutic process, this book is specifically intended for both trainee and experienced play therapists, but will be relevant to all psychotherapists involved in working therapeutically with children and young people. David Le Vay is a qualified social worker and registered play therapist, dramatherapist and sandplay therapist. He has worked with children, who have experienced significant loss, trauma and abuse, as well as with their families and carers. He is also Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University and an approved BAPT play therapy supervisor. Elise Cuschieri is Senior Lecturer and convenes the MA Play Therapy programme at the University of Roehampton. She is a BAPT-registered play therapist and works in the NHS and other sectors with children and their families who have experienced life-limiting illness, loss, trauma and abuse. Personal Process in Child-Centred Play Therapy Edited by David Le Vay and Elise Cuschieri Cover image: © Getty Images First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 selection and editorial matter, David Le Vay and Elise Cuschieri; individual chapters, the contributors The right of David Le Vay and Elise Cuschieri to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-0-367-86160-5 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-86158-2 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-01727-1 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003017271 Typeset in Times New Roman by Apex CoVantage, LLC In memory of Jan Vance, play therapist and contributor to our first text “Challenges in the Theory and Practice of Play Therapy”, who died in March 2018. Contents List of contributors ix Preface xii Acknowledgements xv 1 ‘The child is the father of the man’: paternal patterns of countertransference and empathy 1 DAVID LE VAY 2 Thresholds and transitions: from trainee to therapist and trainer 18 ELISE CUSCHIERI 3 The stories we tell about ourselves 33 LAUREN SHAW 4 A hero’s journey: finding gold at the end of the rainbow 52 SARAH ZEHETMAYR-McCALL AND LISA GORDON CLARK 5 Shame: healing and beyond 74 FRANCESCA WRIGHT 6 Present without presence: supporting the dissociative child in play therapy 91 GENENE GRUBB 7 I see you, you see me: the personal process of a play therapy clinical supervisor 112 SIMON KERR-EDWARDS viii Contents 8 The artisans of the relationship: an exploration of trainee vulnerability 127 MARIA VICTORIA ARALDE 9 Self-care: another important relationship 138 SUE TOPPING 10 The art of witnessing: exploring the interplay between play therapy, theatre and supervision 160 ANN MARIE JOHN 11 Tremor: shaken and stirred 171 DAVID LE VAY 12 When we say goodbye: a reflective account of endings in the therapeutic relationship 183 MARTINE WHEELDON Index 199 Contributors Maria Victoria Aralde Maria Victoria Aralde is a professionally qualified and accredited preschool teacher, filial therapist and play therapist. Her clinical practice is in a special- ist bereavement service where she provides emotional support for children and families in their experiences related to life-limiting illness and/or bereavement. Lisa Gordon Clark Lisa is a BAPT-registered play therapist and clinical supervisor based in Wilt- shire. Until 2020 she was Programme Convener for the Play Therapy MA at the University of Roehampton, where she still runs the 20-week Play Therapy Foundation Course. From 2017 to 2020, she was the External Examiner for the Play Therapy Master’s programme at Queen Margaret University, Edin- burgh. Lisa has been editor of the British Journal of Play Therapy since 2008. Elise Cuschieri Elise is Senior Lecturer and convenes the MA Play Therapy programme at the University of Roehampton. She is a BAPT-registered play therapist and works in the NHS with children and their families who have experienced life-limiting illness and loss. Elise has worked in other sectors with children and families who have been affected by trauma and abuse. Elise is also a BAPT-approved play therapy supervisor and has done training in filial therapy and child- parent relationship therapy. Genene Grubb Genene Grubb is a qualified play therapist who completed her MA Play Therapy at the University of Roehampton in 2019. Genene developed an interest in early intervention and therapeutic support after working with adolescents and adults across numerous psychiatric inpatient and community crisis settings. Currently, Genene works as a play therapist for two children’s mental health charities.
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