FEATURES 4 Creating a Sense of Safety in the Playroom:


Play Therapy After Trauma KRYSTAL KALB-WELDY, MA, LMHC, RPT-S


The author’s use of Adlerian play therapy helped a child create safety and move toward healing after witnessing domestic violence.


8 Play Therapy and EMDR KRISTIN P. TRICK, MA, LPC, RPT


Play therapists trained and supervised in EMDR therapy can combine the approaches to decrease children’s posttraumatic stress symptoms.


12 Integrating Directive and Posttraumatic Play Therapy


to Address Childhood Trauma SUEANN KENNEY-NOZISKA, MSW, LCSW, RPT-S The author further delineates dynamic and toxic posttraumatic play and how play therapists can help through an integrative approach.


16 Too Tired to Play? JANINE SHELBY, PHD, RPT-S


The author poses helpful questions so play therapists can evaluate and adjust their self-care practices.


20 Self-Care: A Trauma Therapist’s Best Friend KIRSTEN GOFFENA, MA, NCC, LPC, RPT-S


Practicing gentle self-care will help play therapists defeat the dark side of trauma work.


24 When Caring Costs Too Much: Compassion Fatigue


and Play Therapy SHARON R. THOMPSON, PHD, NCC, LMHC, RPT-S & MARY SEARS TAYLOR, BA The authors provide helpful tips forpreventing compassion fatigue.


32  RENEE BLOCKER TURNER, PHD, LPC-S, RPT-S


Play therapist wellness begins with applying practical, playful, and committed self-care strategies.


38 Self-Care in the Sand ROXANNE RAE, MSW, LCSW, BCD


 vicarious trauma reactions.


42 Not Taking the Trauma Home: Holding the Holder


at the Organizational Level PARIS GOODYEAR-BROWN, MSW, LCSW, RPT-S & SARAH D. STAUFFER, PHD, LPC, RPT-S Vicarious trauma can be treated systemically by “takingcare of us.”


2 Leadership


28 Point, Counter Point, The Middle Ground 37 Member Storytelling 48 News 50 Book Review 51 Play Therapy™ Magazine Reviewers 52 Credentials


SPECIAL SECTIONS 3 Credentialing: Raising the Bar to Bolster


the Profession


31 2019 Award Recipients 36 Board of Director Appointments


CLINICAL EDITORCLINICAL EDITOR


Mistie Barnes, Ed.D., LPC-S, RPT-S, is an assistant professor in the Department of Counselor Education and Psychology at Delta State University in Cleveland, MS. She supervises the three-tier review process observed by Play TherapyTM mistiebarnes@yahoo.com


magazine.


Sarah D. Stauffer, PhD, LP (Switzerland), LPC, NCC, NCSC, RPT-S, is a play therapist with children and families facing sexual maltreatment at the   Lausanne’s Child Maltreatment Observatory. She is a Leadership Academy Graduate and member of the International Journal of Play Therapy Editorial Board and Research Committee. sarah.stauffer@me.com


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