POST TRAUMATIC PLAY
From
leading expert Eliana Gil, this book provides child clinicians with essential
knowledge and tools for evaluating and working with posttraumatic play. Such
play, which is often repetitive and disturbing, may help resolve traumatic
experiences--but can also become toxic. The book guides the clinician to
determine what is going on with a given child and intervene sensitively and
effectively in a play therapy session. Evocative posttraumatic play therapy
case material is interwoven with up-to-date information on the developmental
impact of trauma and ways to facilitate children's natural reparative
capacities through play in the playroom.
-Identify, understand and provide appropriate play therapy interventions of posttraumatic play in children.
-Review the types, phases and phases of posttraumatic play. Then apply these to a play therapy setting.
-Assess the manifestations of posttraumatic play in play therapy and natural settings.
-Read clinical play therapy illustrations of posttraumatic play in the playroom.
-Recognize the systematic response to posttraumatic play in children and apply interventions in play therapy and with parents.