428 | What's Wrong with Our Field? Novelty and "Innovation"

Play Therapy Podcast: A Master-Class in Child-Centered Play Therapy · Aug 25, 2026 · 16m · transcript

In this episode, I continue the What's Wrong with Our Field? series by looking at our profession's fascination with novelty and innovation. I challenge the assumption that something new is automatically progress and argue that, for child-centered play therapists, real progress should be measured by two things: greater fidelity to the model and stronger evidence that the model works. When therapists feel uncertain, undertrained, or disconnected from a clear theoretical orientation, it becomes easy to keep reaching for the next technique, training, or intervention in hopes that it will finally…