"Pungent Practices in Play" are activities to dysregulate racial dissociation and aversion habits that are embedded in play therapy writing and approaches so that play therapists in training can move towards effectively giving voice to race and ethnicity topics. As Pungent Practices are embraced in a community growth-oriented fashion, play therapists in training will experience an expanded vocabulary when interacting with their own racial and ethnic identity and the identities of future

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... This will create a play therapy culture that enhances accountability, transparency, curiosity, humility, and courage as topics of race and ethnicity are discussed. It is important to note that this model can be adapted to various levels of core curricula in many counseling programs.