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RPT/S Policy Changes. 
A.  CONTENT:  An education or continuing education program taken after June 30, 2010 for play therapy credit to earn or renew our Registered Play Therapist (RPT) and Supervisor (RPT-S) credentials must:
1.  Directly or indirectly improve play therapy service to clients.
2.  Be specifically applicable to the practice of play therapy and not generally applicable to all mental health practitioners.
3.  Display the term "play therapy" in its content description and learning objectives (and optionally in its title).
4.  Generate a transcript or certificate by a university or APT-approved provider respectively.
B.  SUPERVISOR TRAINING:  Instruction in supervision, whether or not it is play therapy specific, is supervisor training (and will not earn play therapy credit).
C.  HOURS:  The required hours are unchanged - 150 play therapy hours to earn RPT/S and 36 hours, at least 18 of which are play therapy hours, for renewal.
D. HELP:  Consult Policy Revisions or contact Bill Burns, (559) 294-2128 x6.

February Mining Report.  In A-Z Mining Tips for Supervisors, author Trudy Post Sprunk, LMFT-S, LPC-S, RPT-S, EMDR-Certified, Duluth, GA, suggests how play therapy supervisors might effectively screen  and establish successful working relationships with potential applicants for supervision, according to Clinical Editor Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S.

Kathryn Wunsch, LCPC, Naperville, IL