Play Therapy
Thera-Build with LEGO®: A Playful Therapeutic Approach for Promoting Emotional Well-Being in Children
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‘Thera-Build’ is a LEGO®-based therapeutic approach for improving children’s emotional wellbeing. Participation in Thera-Build groups can help to boost self-esteem, address common issues such as anxiety and anger, support social development and build positive attachments.
Play-Based Interventions for Childhood Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias
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Illustrating the power of play for helping children overcome a wide variety of worries, fears, and phobias, this book provides a toolkit of play therapy approaches and techniques.
A Practical Guide to Play Therapy in the Outdoors: Working in Nature
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A Practical Guide to Play Therapy in the Outdoors responds to the significant and growing interest in the play therapy community of working in nature.
Playful Awakening: Releasing the Gift of Play in Your Life
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The author of this wide-ranging book explores the universal significance of play in the pursuit of happiness and authenticity.
Creative Play with Children at Risk (2nd edition)
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This second edition is fully updated with the latest good practice in play. Based on an understanding of ‘Neuro-Dramatic-Play’, the book shows that play is an essential part of children’s healthy development and many children ‘at risk’ are those who are unable to play. It includes work with children with learning difficulties as well as those with developmental delay.
Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy
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Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy explores the professional and legal boundaries around physical contact in therapy and offers best-practice guidelines from a variety of perspectives.
Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents in Crisis
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This widely used practitioner resource and course text, now significantly revised, is considered the most comprehensive guide to working with children who have experienced major losses, family upheavals, violence in the school or community, and other traumatic events.
Inclusion, Play and Empathy: Neuroaffective Development in Children’s Groups
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Contributions from early childhood educators, teachers, psychologists, music therapists, occupational therapists, and psychotherapists highlight the crucial role that early relationships and interactions in group settings play in the development of children’s personal, emotional and social skills.
Creative Psychotherapy: Applying the principles of neurobiology to play and expressive arts-based practice
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Creative Psychotherapy brings together the expertise of leading authors and clinicians from around the world to synthesise what we understand about how the brain develops, the neurological impact of trauma and the development of play.
Short-Term Play Therapy for Children
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Illustrated with rich case examples, this widely used practitioner resource and text presents a range of play approaches that facilitate healing in a shorter time frame.
Better Play: Practical Strategies for Supporting Play in Schools for Children of All Ages
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Better Play will help you to think about how supporting play in schools can make for better relationships and for better learning.
Play in Family Therapy (2nd Edition)
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This classic volume, now completely revised, has helped tens of thousands of therapists integrate play therapy and family therapy techniques in clinical practice.
Essential Play Therapy Techniques: Time-Tested Approaches
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Highly practical and user friendly, this book presents 58 play therapy techniques that belong in every child clinician’s toolbox.
Challenges in the Theory and Practice of Play Therapy
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Challenges in the Theory and Practice of Play Therapy provides an advanced and in-depth exploration of the issues and challenges relating to the training, theory and practice of Child-Centred Play Therapy.
Handbook of Play Therapy
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Handbook of Play Therapy is the one-stop resource for play therapists with coverage of all major aspects written by experts in the field. This edition consolidates the coverage of both previous volumes into one book, updated to reflect the newest findings and practices of the field.
Creative Arts and Play Therapy for Attachment Problems
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This book vividly shows how creative arts and play therapy can help children recover from experiences of disrupted or insecure attachment.
Play Therapy Interventions to Enhance Resilience – Creative Arts and Play Therapy
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This unique volume brings together experts on resilience, trauma, and play therapy to describe effective treatment approaches in this key area. The book begins by providing guiding principles for intervention and describing the specific properties of play that promote resilience.
Play and Art in Child Psychotherapy: An Expressive Arts Therapy Approach
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This comprehensive guide to the use of play and art in working with children and parents will be of interest to students and practitioners in the fields of expressive arts therapy and psychotherapy, in addition to anyone working with children in disciplines such as psychology, social work and psychiatry
Lego Based Therapy: How to Build Social Competence Through Lego-Based Clubs for Children with Autism and Related Conditions
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This complete guide to LEGO(R) Therapy contains everything you need to know in order to set up and run a LEGO(R) Club for children with autism spectrum disorders or related social communication difficulties and anxiety conditions.
Play Therapy in the Outdoors: Taking Play Therapy out of the Playroom and into Natural Environments
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Championing the therapeutic power of nature, this book explores why outdoor play therapy offers children more than being confined to a playroom and how practice can be moved into the natural environment in a safe and ethical way.
Deep Play – Exploring the Use of Depth in Psychotherapy with Children
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The contributors to this book all work deeply, allowing children to take risks in a safe environment, and become fully absorbed in physical play.
Group Play Therapy: A Dynamic Approach
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Group Play Therapy presents an updated look at an effective yet underutilized therapeutic intervention.
Direct Work with Vulnerable Children: Playful Activities and Strategies for Communication
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This book is essential reading for all those working with vulnerable children.
Risk and Adventure in Early Years Outdoor Play: Learning from Forest Schools
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This book will give you the confidence to offer the children in your setting adventurous and challenging outdoor activities, as well as ways to utilise natural resources to their best advantage. There is clear, practical advice on what you need to do, which is underpinned by the theory that supports the benefits of this approach. Examples from settings are included, to illustrate best practice and to show how things can be achieved.