COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE
This authoritative work brings together
leading play therapists to describe state-of-the-art clinical approaches and
applications in play therapy. The book explains major theoretical play therapy
frameworks and summarizes the contemporary play therapy research base,
including compelling findings from neuroscience. Contributors present effective
play therapy strategies for treating children struggling with such problems
as trauma, maltreatment, attachment difficulties, bullying, rage, grief, and
autism spectrum disorder. Practice principles are brought to life in vivid play
therapy case illustrations throughout the volume. Special topics include
play therapy treatment with military families and play therapy interventions
for adolescents and adults.
-Select appropriate
answers to multiple choice questions regarding various play therapy
theories
-Read and gauge the value
of child centered play therapy
-Compare Child Centered
Play Therapy to Adlerian Play Therapy
-Compare Analytical
Jungian Play Therapy to Psychodynamic Play Therapy
-Notice where theories
overlap in different play therapy approaches.
i.e. Carl Rogers Person Centered - Child Centered Play Therapy and Child
Parent Relationship Therapy and Animal Assisted Play Therapy
-Reflect on Object
Relations and Attachment-Based Play Therapy /Attachment
Security as a Framework in Play Therapy/Theraplay
-Observe how Carl Rogers
person centered theory fits with Child Centered Play Therapy
-Assess Psychoanalytic
theory to psychodynamic play therapy
-Observe how Adler’s
Individual Psychology fits with Adlerian Play Therapy
-Review the integrative
Theoretical Approach to Play Therapy
-Review, become
knowledgeable and aware of Cultural Issues in Play Therapy
-Explore the neuroscience
of healing play at every age
-Be informed about Ethics
in Play Therapy
-Read Clinical
Applications of Play Therapy
i.e. bullying, school based, homelessness, divorce, abused, disaster
and crisis and more