Title | Description |
Empathy - the ability to understand how others feel - to put yourself in the client's position | Experiential training will increase your understanding of what the children are feeling during play therapy. You will also need to empathise with parent/carers, referrers and others involved. |
Sincerity - you do what you say Integrity - straightforwardness, honesty and coherence. | To gain children's trust. |
Resilience - work without being personally diminished | You must not let the ,sometimes harrowing children's experiences 'get to you'. |
Respect - show appropriate esteem to others | Never patronise the children. |
Humility - acknowledge own strengths and weaknesses | No one is perfect, the children will respect your admission of mistakes and weaknesses. |
Competence - effective deployment of skills | Play therapy competencies must be acquired through experiential training that is practice based. |
Fairness - consistent decisions and actions. | Treat all children equally - they will soon find out, if you don't. |
Wisdom - sound judgement | This comes through experience, clinical supervision, reflection on practise, clinical governance and continuous professional development. |
Courage | Being able to take decisions and act in spite of known fears, risks, uncertainty and opposition. |