Supervision Can Be Playful offers clinical supervisors of mental health professionals a comprehensive and thoughtful resource. The text focuses on the clinical supervision of child and play therapists, with supervision interventions that can be augmented for use with mental health professionals who provide supervision to adolescent and adult therapists. The perspectives discussed regarding the role of the clinical supervisor are universal and readers will find them relevant regardless of the age group they are working with. The text addresses the roles and processes of clinical supervision from a unique playful perspective, and from an eclectic theoretical orientation. Each chapter author offers a piece of the supervision puzzle and offers the reader clear guidelines for implementing techniques and the rationale behind them.

Contributions by: Sue Bratton, Peggy Ceballos, David A. Crenshaw, Judith M. Dagirmanjian, Lennis G. Echterling, Jody J. Fiorini, Sandra B. Frick-Helms, Ken Gardner, Kristi A. Gibbs, Eliana Gil, Eric J. Green, Louise Guerney, Susan Hansen, Linda Homeyer, Melissa Luke, Mary Morrison, Evangeline Munns, Yumiko Ogawa, Dee Ray, Arthur Robbins, Lawrence Rubin, Angela Sheely, Anne Stewart, Lorri Yasenik