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Description

In the past twenty-five years, the practice of play therapy has increased exponentially in America and throughout the world. This handbook brings together an international group of scholars and therapists to address a wide variety of topics relevant to the rapidly expanding field of play therapy. The primary goal of the handbook is to provide play therapists with practical information they can put into immediate use in their clinical work with children and adolescents. Thus the focus is on advances in assessment, theory, research, and practice that have universal appeal, rather than on adaptations of play therapy to specific cultures. Play therapists and students from diverse cultures, professional disciplines, and theoretical orientations will find this book to be a comprehensive resource for keeping abreast of innovations in the field.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Family Play Therapy
Chapter 2 Narrative Play Therapy: A Collaborative Approach
Chapter 3 Theraplay for Children with Self-Regulation Problems
Chapter 4 Embodiment-Projection-Role: A Developmental Model for the Play Therapy Method
Chapter 5 Barriers, Bridges, Breakthroughs: Play-Work with Autistic Spectrum Children
Chapter 6 The Use of Play and Narrative Story Stems in Assessing the Mental Health Needs of Foster Children
Chapter 7 Transcending into Fantastic Reality: Story Making with Adolescents in Crisis
Chapter 8 Assessment of Sibling Relationships Using Play, Art, and Stories
Chapter 9 The Erica Method of Sand Tray Assessment
Chapter 10 Children Talk About Play Therapy
Chapter 11 Building an Empirical Foundation for the Use of Pretend Play in Therapy
Chapter 12 "Little Monsters"? Play Therapy for Children with Sexually Problematic Behaviors
Chapter 13 Creative Interventions to Engage Resistant Children in Therapy
Chapter 14 Play Therapy for the Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Chapter 15 The National Story and the Child's Drama in Play Therapy in Isreal

Product details

Published Jun 03 2005
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 352
ISBN 9780765701220
Imprint Jason Aronson, Inc.
Dimensions 9 x 7 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Charles Schaefer

Anthology Editor

Judy McCormick

Anthology Editor

Akiko J. Ohnogi

Contributor

Schlomo Ariel

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Ann Cattanach

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Sue Jennings

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Shoshana Levin

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Sheila Hudd

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Mooli Lahad

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Kate Kirk

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Jytte Mielcke

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Jo Carroll

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Sandra Russ

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David LeVay

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David Hudak

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Galila Oren

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