Play Therapy: The Groundbreaking Book That Has Become a Vital Tool in the Growth and Development of Children

by Virginia M. Axline

Paperback, 1981

Status

Available

Call number

362.7

Publication

Ballantine Books (1981), Edition: Reissue, 384 pages

Description

"The most brilliant and intuitive, as well as the clearest written, work in this field. It is unpretentious yet clearly the most authoritative work that has been published." NORMAN CAMERON, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine Here is an intensely practical book that gives specific illustrations of how therapy can be implemented in play contacts, and tells how the toys of the playroom can be vivid performers and aids in growth. As she did with DIBS IN SEARCH OF SELF, Dr. Axline has taken true case histories from the rich mine of verbatim case material of children referred for play therapy, choosing children ranging in age, problem, and personality. It's all here in an important and rewarding book for parents, teachers, and anyone who comes in contact with children.… (more)

Subjects

Original publication date

1947
1969 (Revised Edition)

DDC/MDS

362.7
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