 personal time. Work is more likely to create negative spillover on family life than family life is on work (e.g., Forma, 2008; Sultana, 2012). Many women cope by reducing time they would otherwise take for themselves before cutting or restructuring family or work obligations, threatening their wellbeing (Higgins, Duxbury, & Lyons, 2010). Preventing emotional        systemic intervention (Hernandez, Gangsei, & Engstrom, 2007; Maslach, 2003; Phelps, Lloyd, Creamer, & Forbes, 2009).


Play therapists are told to “prioritize self-care” but are often unsupported in carving out administrative time or in developing administrative competence. Work systems need to provide infrastructure that supports clinicians by protecting administrative time and by equipping play therapists with knowledge and strategies for navigating the droning administrative airspace (cf. Pliske, 2018). Establishing this kind of support systemically highlights a clear difference from what is typically published in the literature on managing work stress and achieving work balance. Our philosophy, and what we try to establish in our respective organizations, is “We take care of us,” instead of, “You take care of you.”


Nurture House and ESPAS: Holding the Holders Research supports ongoing supervision and peer consultation as the most consistent protective factor against the development of STS and VT (Chouliara, Hutchison, & Karatzias, 2009; Etherington, 2009; Harrison & Westwood, 2009; Pistorius, Feinaur, Harper, Stahmann, & Miller, 2008). Supervisors can encourage (or nudge) supervisees to


acquire trauma-informed practices through direct or indirect teaching methods (Schaefer & Drewes, 2014), and present options for education, training, supervised experience, or consultation (American Counseling Association, 2014, Sect. C.2.b; American Psychological Association, 2018, Sect. 2.01c, 2.01d; National Association of Social Workers, 2018, Sect. 1.04b). Concretely, how do we do this?


 & Gold, 2009; Cunningham, 2004). Nurture House and ESPAS provide resource libraries and free access to in-house monthly and archived trainings to employees/interns. Nurture House has a wall of intervention boxes with instructions and supplies readily accessible by category.


The cultures of both organizations promote clinician connection as     processing, or encouragement between sessions. Clinicians who hold             with whom to process the session afterwards. Clinicians sometimes approach us and begin to cry in the safe space we create to share feelings after having compartmentalized these feelings during a session.


Leadership holds clinicians, responding to their expressed needs, modeling how to provide a similar process for the families they hold. Supervisors regularly ask, “What are you holding?” and “How can I help you hold it?” After a hard session or day, one clinician often asks another, “What do you need?” to leave a client’s story at work. Organizationally, this could include asking for extra supervision or a limit on current


Child-Centered Play Therapy and Filial Family Therapy Workshops


Child-Centered


Play Therapy Workshops William Nordling, Ph.D., RPT-S March 29-30, 2019 September 13-14, 2019


Filial Family Therapy William Nordling, Ph.D., RPT-S November 8-9, 2019


Advanced Child-Centered Play Therapy


Robert F. Scuka, Ph.D. May 18, 2019


RE Couples Therapy October 25-27, 2019


Supervision and • A structured, guided


process to skill mastery


• Supervision counts toward APT registration as an RPT


On-Site Trainings Available 44 | PLAYTHERAPY June 2019 | www.a4pt.org Visit www.nire.org or call 301-680-8977 for more information.


National Institute of Relationship Enhancement® 3914 Kincaid Terrace, Kensington, MD 20895 • 301.680.8977 • niremd@nire.org


the American Psychological Association, NBCC, and the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners.


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