Spring 2021 Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PIM (0527) 616 - Reflective Supervision for Play Therapy
Credits: 2.00
Students will step back with a trained reflective supervisor to contemplate the use of play in their work with dyads and children, refine reflective function, gain insight, solve problems and hone the therapeutic use of self in the service of deepening reflective practice.
Free Note: Required for students in IMH-DP program.
Course Learning Goals: 1. Be self-observing and reflective of their impact on children and families.
2. Be attuned to and manage the forces of transference and countertransference arising in the course of clinical work gaining awareness of how personal characteristics, feeling states, culture, style may unconsciously contribute to the work with children and families.
3. Define and maintain appropriate boundaries across in a variety of roles and settings.
4. Apply self-knowledge and reflective function/mindfulness to better understand families, therapeutic process and parallel process with play therapy cases
5. Reflect on their own disciplinary scope of practice within an interdisciplinary context and appropriately negotiate referrals and second opinions when appropriate
6. Create a climate of safety and confidentiality with parent and child in a play therapy session and listen with full emotional availability, actively gaining an empathic understanding of children and families
7. Frame the work in the context of the parent-child relationship in spite of multiple needs and distractions.
8. Objectively assess the strengths and limitations of the practice setting and appropriately act in the best interest of the child/family.
9. Tolerate strong feeling, serve as a container for affect and projection and manage ambivalence and ambiguity arising from the clinical work
10. Apply an understanding of cultural competence to form meaning and interpret clinical material, communicate effectively, establish positive relationships with families and demonstrate respect for the uniqueness of each client family’s culture through play
11. Organize and present case formulations, interpret case material from competing perspectives and explain why a particular course of action was chosen
12. Make effective use of reflective supervision in examining play therapy cases
13. Recognize feelings and subjective (countertransference) reactions evoked by the child’s play
14. Recognize and manage feelings of competition and triangulation that may arise particularly in dyadic play-based treatment
15. Use subjective associations to gain understanding of the symbolic meaning of the child’s play
16. Use self as a “new object” for the child
17. Use emotional attunement and intersubjectivity in the play relationship
18. Provide for the child a corrective emotional play and relational experience
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