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Children and families social work, empathy and emotional intelligence, CAMHS and therapeutic approaches, play therapy

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Senior Lecturer

Qualifications:

B SOcial Science Sociology 1986 Certificate of Qualification in Social work (CQSW) 1989 MSc Counselling & Psychotherapy, 2002 MA Non Directive Play Therapy, 2005 Advanced Award in Social Work (AASW) 2005 PG Diploma IN Higher Education,2013

My Latest As Author

Ayling, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-5025 (2025) Sustaining empathy within social work - a model for training & practice. In: Joint University Social Work Association Conference, 25-27 June 2025, University of Central Lancashire, Preston. (Unpublished)
Ayling, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-5025 (2025) Picturing Empathy In Practice: Exploring practitioners’ lived experiences of empathy with children and families. In: Joint University Social Work Association Postgraduate Conference, 25-27 June 2025, University of Central Lancashire, Preston. (Unpublished)
Ayling, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-5025 (2024) Empathy in Social work: How do social workers experience empathy within their day-to-day practice? A visual, interpretative phenomenological analysis. PhD thesis, School of Health & Wellbeing.
Ayling, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-5025 (2019) Looking at the stars: a visual phenomenological study of empathy in social work practice with children. In: Joint Social Work Education Conference, 9-10 September 2019, Liverpool. (Unpublished)
Ayling, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-5025 (2019) Becoming and Being a Play Therapist : Play Therapy in Practice. Edited By Peter Ayling, Harriet Armstrong, Lisa Gordon Clark. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 978-I-138-56097-0
Ayling, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-5025 (2019) Containing feelings and setting limits in play therapy: working with aggression. In: Becoming and Being a Play Therapist : Play Therapy in Practice. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 122-136. ISBN 9781138560970
Ayling, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-5025 (2018) ‘Swimming in darkness’ – a phenomenological study exploring social workers’ lived experience of emotion within their work with children. In: European Social Work Research Conference, 9-12.04.22, Leuven, Belgium. (Unpublished)
Ayling, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-5025, Weston, Rosalind and Levermore, Denisse (2017) Working together with families in crisis: removing barriers in inter-professional education. In: Learning, Teaching and Student experience conference, University of Worcester, 15-16.06.2017, Worcester. (Unpublished)
Ayling, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-5025 and Williams, J. (2014) “To feel or not to feel ? - that is the question”: Evaluating newly qualified social worker’s experiences during their first year in practice. How can we promote more effective use of self? In: UK Joint Social Work Education and Research Conference: Social Work Making Connections, 23-24.07.2014, Royal Holloway, University of London. (Unpublished)
Ayling, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-5025 and Stringer, B. (2013) Supporting carer–child relationships through play: a model for teaching carers how to use play skills to strengthen attachment relationships. Adoption & Fostering, 37 (2). pp. 130-143. ISSN Print: 0308-5759 Online: 1740-469X
Ayling, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-5025 (2012) “Playing Together; Promoting Secure attachments through carer – child play interventions”. In: European Congress of Drama and Play Therapy, 23 - 25.10.2012, Athens Greece. (Unpublished)
Ayling, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2987-5025 (2012) Learning through Playing in Higher Education: Promoting Play as a Skill for Social Work Students. Social Work Education, 31 (6). 764-777,.

My Most Viewed As Author

#	Item title
1.	Empathy in Social work: How do social workers experience empathy within their day-to-day practice? A visual, interpretative phenomenological analysis.	474	507
2.	Containing feelings and setting limits in play therapy: working with aggression.	174	2021
3.	Looking at the stars: a visual phenomenological study of empathy in social work practice with children	156	3
4.	‘Swimming in darkness’ – a phenomenological study exploring social workers’ lived experience of emotion within their work with children	151	8
5.	Learning through Playing in Higher Education: Promoting Play as a Skill for Social Work Students	137
6.	Supporting carer–child relationships through play: a model for teaching carers how to use play skills to strengthen attachment relationships	119
7.	Becoming and Being a Play Therapist : Play Therapy in Practice. Edited By Peter Ayling, Harriet Armstrong, Lisa Gordon Clark.	117	1
8.	“To feel or not to feel ? - that is the question”: Evaluating newly qualified social worker’s experiences during their first year in practice. How can we promote more effective use of self?	113	4
9.	Working together with families in crisis: removing barriers in inter-professional education.	101
10.	“Playing Together; Promoting Secure attachments through carer – child play interventions”	73	1
11.	Sustaining empathy within social work - a model for training & practice	58	1
12.	Picturing Empathy In Practice: Exploring practitioners’ lived experiences of empathy with children and families	51	1

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