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This is a practical handbook for therapists working with children, drawing on the authors' twenty-five years of experience in practice and teaching. It contains clear instructions for the beginning therapist who wants to know how to use play to diagnose and treat children suffering from depression, behavior problems, separation, and loss. Showing the value of play in the developmental journey of a child, the Prices' are specific about how to help children overcome life circumstances that have left them stuck in their emotional and adaptive development. When the therapist fosters conditions for growth in therapy and improves the environment, most children will develop and succeed. Since parents need to be a major part in the treatment of their children, the authors describe ways to model effective parenting, including a recommendation that parents play with their children. They show how the therapeutic experience can extend beyond the hour and into the real life of the child, and they reinforce for parents the appropriate developmental expectations for youngsters. Therapists will also find an excellent list of parent training resources to assist in parent consultation. Lively case material and practical exercises combine to provide a comprehensive resource for clinicians who deal with troubled children and their parents. Helpful appendices include consent forms, toys to buy, and basic behavioral management tools. This is an encyclopedic reference for the beginner, and an invaluable teaching tool for supervisors.… (more)
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Let the Play Begin: Conducting a Play Therapy Session --; Diagnostic Play: Assessing the Child's Needs, Developmental Level, and Core Conflicts --; Starting Points: Basic Assumptions, Uses of Play in Therapy, Characteristics of an Effective Play Therapist --; What About Theory?: The Necessity of Theoretical Orientation, Theory Applied --; Tools of the Trade --; Basic Play Therapy Materials Descriptions and Uses --; Therapeutic Storytelling Mutual Storytelling Technique and Different Variations --; Specific Problems --; Treatment of Anxiety and Depression --; Treatment of Behavior Problems --; Play Therapy Applied to Separation and Loss: Divorce, Absentee Parent, Death, Adoption, Foster Care --; Play Therapy Applied to Trauma and Illness: Violence, Natural Disasters, Illness --; Behavior Therapy --; Managing Difficult Behavior in the Office, School and Community: Description and Intervention --; Parent Consultation: for Managing Behavior Problems Principles, Model, and Example.