PLAYTHERAPY VOLUME 13, ISSUE 3 • SEPTEMBER 4


IN EVERY ISSUE 2 Leadership


3 Member Storytelling 16 Point, Counter Point, The Middle Ground 28 News 31 Play Therapy™ Magazine Reviewers 32 Credentials


SPECIAL SECTIONS 8 Research


30 Leadership Academy 8


FEATURES 4 The Unexpected Purpose of Technology in the


Playroom: Catharsis TIFFANY MCNARY, PHD, LPC, NCC, CPCS, RPT-S; ERIN C. M. MASON, PHD;


& GALINA K. TOBIN, MED, APC, NCC


The authors describe how using technology in play therapy assisted a 9-year-old girl process her cancer journey and beat her statistical odds.


10 Technology and the Threat to Secure Attachments:


What Play Therapists Need to Consider JANET A. COURTNEY, PHD, LCSW, RPT-S & EVA NOWAKOWSKI-SIMS, PHD, LCSW Play therapists can help parents understand the risks of their or their children’s excessive technology use and set appropriate limits around it.


20 Technology in Play Therapy: A Collegial Debate


Between Seven Veteran Play Therapists SARAH D. STAUFFER, PHD, LP, LPC, NCC, NCSC, RPT-S An update to the quintessential debate: Technology or not in the playroom.


24 Developing The Dream: Play in Private Practice CHRISTY GRAHAM, LPC-S, RPT-S


The author emphasizes how mission, team building, and flexibility can help turn private practice dreams into reality.


CLINICAL EDITOR CLINICAL 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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