ABSTRACT
The Process Group, within the context of the University of Roehampton MA Play Therapy programme, provides play therapy trainees with an opportunity to experience a boundaried, therapeutic process within an educational framework. The term Process Group is used as it exists within the Arts and Play Therapies programmes at the University of Roehampton. The way in which the Process Group mirrors some of the processes of child-centred play therapy seems a fundamental theme; and inherent in this are the issues of structure, direction, the non-directive approach and trust in the process. Play therapy and the process of engaging in children's creative, imaginative play is all about curiosity and wondering where the play might lead us. The distinction lies within the explicit pedagogic context of the group and the inherently stated aims and objectives that are linked to the trainees' learning outcomes, within the overall context of the play therapy programme.
