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IN EVERY ISSUE 2 Leadership


8 Book Review 21 APT Board Message 28 News 30 Member Storytelling 31 Play Therapy™ Magazine Reviewers 32 Credentials


SPECIAL SECTIONS 3 2026 Award Recipients


FEATURES 4 The Many Hats of Supervision: Balancing Administration and Clinical Growth for Early


Career Play Therapists MICHELLE M. PLISKE, DSW, LCSW, RPT-S™ & JAMIE A. WATSON, MA, LMFT, RPT-S™


Effective supervision of early-career therapists must integrate clinical skill-building with systems literacy, cultural responsiveness, and burnout prevention to sustain professional retention and growth.


10 Teaching the Next Generation: Guiding Principles


for Play Therapy Instructors CORIE SCHOENEBERG, PHD, LPC, RPT-S™, NCC Creating a framework that incorporates experiential learning, focused instruction aligned with learners’ developmental stages, and the cultivation of the play therapist’s professional identity is essential to high-quality play therapy instruction.


16 Cultural Humility in Play Therapy with


Multicultural Children KADESHA ADELAKUN, MSW, LCSW, RPT-S,™ PMH-C Cultural humility, rather than cultural competence, is an ethical and ongoing framework that helps play therapists provide responsive, inclusive, and equitable care to increasingly diverse children and families.


22 Translating IJPT Research into Practice YUNG-WEI (DENNIS) LIN, PHD, NCC,


REBEKAH BYRD, PHD, LPC, (TN), LCMHC (NC), NCC, RPT-S™ & SUE BRATTON, PHD, LPC-S, RPT-S™


A guide on how play therapists can critically interpret both qualitative and quantitative research designs in the International Journal of Play Therapy ® their clinical practice.


 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 TerapyTM mistiebarnes@yahoo.com


magazine.


Jared Andes, LCSW, RPT-S™, is the founderofFullSpectrumCounseling, serves in leadership with the Utah Association for Play Therapy, and is a graduate of the APT Leadership Academy. He specializes in Jungian Analytical Play Therapy, anxiety, and working with neurodivergent children and families. Jared advances play therapy through clinical practice, presentations, and supervision. jaredandes@fullspectrumcounseling.org


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