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