POINT, COUNTER POINT, THE MIDDLE GROUND


Is there more value in contact (in-person) trainings?


References                   Play Therapy    PlayTherapyJune2021/html/index.html?page=12&origin=reader


     Play therapy best practices: Clinical, professional, and ethical issues. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.a4pt.org/ resource/resmgr/publications/


https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.a4pt.org/ resource/resmgr/publications/best_practices.pdf


    The Journal of Competency-Based Education. https:// 


          IOSR          


     Virtual Training?: Comparing the Effectiveness of Community-Based American Journal of Distance Education,  


Future Play Therapy Topics TM


Dear Readers and Fellow Play Therapists, your suggestions and contributions to Play TherapyTM


Magazine make it


                    practice settings! We invite you to contribute your ideas and manuscripts for publication consideration on the following upcoming topics.


Submit your 2,000-word (or less) manuscript to mvillegas@a4pt.org


   


       


18 | PLAYTHERAPY | September 2023 | www.a4pt.org


CLINICAL EDITOR’S COMMENTS: This column features insights and differing


perspectives on important play therapy issues. Contributors present opposing arguments for the sake of intellectual exploration and debate and perspectives expressed may not be their own.


Hartzler, B., Hinde, J., Lang, S., Correia, N., Yermash, J., Yap, K., Murphy, C. M.,    Is More Cost-Effective Than In-Person Training for Preparing Staff to Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science. 


          


Ong, J., De Santo, R., Heir, J., Siu, E., Nirmalan, N., Ofori, M. B., Awotide, A., Hassan, O., Ramos, R., Badaoui, T., Ogley, V., Saad, C., Sabbatasso, E., &    prefer in-person over online classes. University Affairs. https://www.  students-prefer-in-person-over-online-classes.


ABOUT THE AUTHORS


Lisa Anderson Mangan, MEd, LCPC, RPT-S is in private practice in Great Falls, Montana. She works with ages 2 through adulthood on issues including trauma, anxiety, and depression. She serves on several APT committees, her local Child Advocacy Center Multidisciplincary team, and her regional Fetal, Infant, Child & Maternal Mortality Review. lisa@mountainpeaksinc.com


Erika Walker, LSCSW, LCSW, LICSW, RPT owns a private practice in Wichita, Kansas, and is also licensed in Missouri and Massachusetts. Erika utilizes Dungeons & Dragons through an Adlerian Play Therapy lens, and has virtually trained other clinicians from all over the world in how to use this technique, too. erikawalkertherapy@gmail.com


Bridgette Mitchell Sanders, PsyD, LCSW, RPT-S, PPSC, is Director of Play Therapy Educational Services in Los Angeles, California. She is an APT Approved provider and serves as chair of the APT Registration and Credential Committee. info@playtherapyeducationalservices.com


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