Play Therapy
Jungian Counseling and Play Therapy: Classical Theory for the Digital Age
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Jungian Counseling and Play Therapy is both an introduction to Jung’s theory and a practical guide to Jungian-informed practice.
Play Is the Therapy: A Polyvagal-Informed Approach to Recognizing and Treating Child Traumatic Stress
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Filled with kid-friendly activities, case studies, and sample scripts, this transformative treatment guide will allow you to harness the power of “polyvagal play” so you can: – Build rapport with children who struggle to trust others, particularly adults – Move past outdated and punitive behavioral management approaches – Reframe “problem” behaviors as adaptive nervous system responses – Use a playful approach to support kids in learning about their nervous system – Create feelings of safety and connection by simply being with your client in session.
Reflections on Play Therapy: A Narrative through Training, Theory, and Practice
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This book explores an extensive range of questions and challenges within the training, theory, and practice of play therapy, with the aim of providing a stimulating and thought-provoking debate around many of the issues and dilemmas therapists experience.
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Assessing and Treating Suicidal Thinking and Behaviors in Children and Adolescents: A Play Therapy Guide for Mental Health Professionals in Clinical and School-Based Settings
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Expressive therapists, school-based counselors, and other clinicians who work with at-risk children and adolescents from diverse communities and backgrounds will come away from this book with the tools they need to integrate the individual child’s capabilities, sources of distress, and internal and external resources in order to build a developmentally sensitive treatment plan.
Play Therapy and Expressive Arts in a Complex and Dynamic World: Opportunities and Challenges Inside and Outside the Playroom
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This book offers cutting-edge expertise and knowledge in new and developing play therapy, therapeutic play, and expressive arts for families and children in crisis and challenging situations.
Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
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Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families is a comprehensive guide that provides an integrative and prescriptive approach to creating customized treatment plans. It’s an excellent textbook for graduate programs in social work, counseling, and family therapy and an invaluable guide for practicing clinicians in all settings.
Polyvagal Power in the Playroom: A Guide for Play Therapists
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Polyvagal Power in the Playroom shows therapists how to treat children using play therapy to address the hierarchy of autonomic states. What do children need and how do play therapists purposefully use the principles of play to increase the feeling states of safety and regulation? Step inside the playroom and discover how trained play therapists are addressing treatment using polyvagal theory when working with children and teens.
Psychoanalytically Informed Play Therapy: Fantasy-Exposure Life-Narrative Therapy
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Psychoanalytically Informed Play Therapy: Fantasy-Exposure Life-Narrative Therapy is a structured manual for the execution of FELT, an integrative play therapy that marries the analytic, relational, and psychodynamic aspects of traditional Play Therapy with the scientific rigor and replicability standards of clinical empiricism.
Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO®: The Guidebook for Helping Professionals
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Though based in current research, Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO® is designed for psychologists, social workers, school counselors, occupational therapists, clinical educators and supervisors, coaches, support workers, and other health care providers across the lifespan who wish to use play therapeutically.
Play Therapy Dimensions Model: New Insights for Integrative Play Therapists (3rd edition)
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An updated take on a fundamental decision-making framework, this practical guide explores the dimensions of play therapy and how they apply to today’s practitioner. In-depth case studies illustrate the interplay between theory and practice, demonstrating an integrative case conceptualization approach.
Play Interventions for Neurodivergent Children and Adolescents: Promoting Growth, Empowerment, and Affirming Practices
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This revamped second edition provides several play interventions designed to address a variety of common mental health needs that neurodivergent children face, such as social navigation, regulation, relationship development, anxiety issues, identity struggles, and self-advocacy.
Nature-Based Play Therapy: A Prescriptive Approach to Integrating the Therapeutic Powers of Nature and Play
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Nature-Based Play Therapy brings a theoretical basis to arguments for including nature in play therapy and provides tools for that inclusion with a prescriptive model.
The Great Pram Escape: Finding a Forever Family for Baby James
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When Baby James is in need of a home, his loyal and determined Pram takes him along a hopeful journey in search of a loving family. The road gets rocky along the way, but will Pram find Baby James a forever home?
Sandtray Applications to Trauma Therapy: A Model Towards Relational Harmony
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Sandtray Applications to Trauma Therapy presents the theory behind and the practicalities of using sandtray therapy in treatment with traumatized patients, both children and adults.
Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship
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This book details Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT), an evidence-based model, which stresses the importance of understanding the child’s world.
Play in Hospitals: Real Life Perspectives
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Exploring how practitioners make use of play’s developmental benefits and therapeutic healing properties to aid the child’s healthcare journey, this reflective book expands and enhances the knowledge base underlying the practice of play in hospitals.
The Guide to Play Therapy Documentation and Parent Consultation
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The Guide to Play Therapy Documentation and Parent Consultation guides play therapists through the case-documentation process, from the initial inquiry for services through intake session, diagnosis, treatment planning, session notes, and termination summary.
Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy
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Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy is the first book of its kind to provide an overview of key aspects of play and play therapy, considering play on a continuum from generic aspects through to more specific applied and therapeutic techniques and as a stand-alone discipline.
Using Art, Play, Metaphor, and Symbol with Hard-to-Reach Young Clients: Reach Out To Me
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This book demonstrates some of the unique ways in which therapists can help complex and vulnerable clients considered “hard-to-reach”, using arts media and play.
Play Therapy Supervision: A Practical Guide to Models and Best Practices
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Play therapy is one of the fastest-growing specialty areas in mental health. Understanding the skills, knowledge, and strategies that make play therapy supervision effective is essential in supporting the integrity and needs of a thriving field.
Playful Education: Using Play Therapy Strategies to Elevate Your Classroom
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Playful Education provides a guide for you to activate the powers of play to boost your teaching practices and increase your effectiveness as an educator.
Child-Centered Play Therapy: A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Relationships with Children (2nd Edition)
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Designed for professionals adding play therapy to their practices as well as for graduate students, the second edition of Child-Centered Play Therapy is comprehensive, engaging, and practical.
Personal Process in Child-Centred Play Therapy
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With a unique and distinct perspective on the therapeutic process, this book is specifically intended for both trainee and experienced play therapists, but will be relevant to all psychotherapists involved in working therapeutically with children and young people.
Puppet-Assisted Play Therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice
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Puppet-Assisted Play Therapy is a valuable addition to the library of any therapist, social worker, counsellor, teacher, or other professional interested in play and puppets with children.