Child Centered Play Therapy Workbook

Author : Risë VanFleet
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1606239031
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child-Centered Play Therapy written by Risë VanFleet and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly practical, instructive, and authoritative, this book vividly describes how to conduct child-centered play therapy. The authors are master clinicians who explain core therapeutic principles and techniques, using rich case material to illustrate treatment of a wide range of difficulties. The focus is on nondirective interventions that allow children to freely express their feelings and take the lead in solving their own problems. Flexible yet systematic guidelines are provided for setting up a playroom; structuring sessions; understanding and responding empathically to children's play themes, including how to handle challenging behaviors; and collaborating effectively with parents.

Author : Jodi Ann Mullin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780878226825
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child-Centered Play Therapy Workbook written by Jodi Ann Mullin and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable workbook successfully combines the foundational content needed to orient play therapists to the child-centered approach with an engaging series of reflective and experiential activities designed to help develop therapeutic competence.The many activities included here allow readers to engage in an interactive process to learn the philosophy and skills of child-centered play therapy: seeing the world through the child¿s eyes, empathizing, tracking, setting limits, recognizing childhood as culture, identifying themes and stages of therapy, and more.Throughout, the authors provide a personal backdrop for learning and living the child-centered play therapy philosophy, based on their many years conducting and supervising play therapy sessions. Both budding and seasoned play and child therapists stand to gain richly from their insights.

Author : Nancy H. Cochran
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470442239
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child-Centered Play Therapy written by Nancy H. Cochran and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The authors . . . make child-centered play therapy readily understandable to those who wish to take advantage of its long history of helping children overcome problems and grow emotionally to a level of maturity difficult to achieve by any other approach." —From the Foreword, by Louise F. Guerney, PhD, RPT-S A comprehensive resource that thoroughly teaches the theory, methods, and practice of child-centered play therapy Child-Centered Play Therapy: A Practical Guide to Developing Therapeutic Relationships with Children offers how-to direction and practical advice for conducting child-centered play therapy. Filled with case studies, learning activities, and classroom exercises, this book presents extensive coverage of play therapy applications such as setting goals and treatment planning, as well as recommendations for family and systemic services that can be provided along with play therapy. This rich resource provides: A thorough introduction to the theory and guiding principles underlying child-centered play therapy Skill guidance including structuring sessions, tracking, empathy, responding to children's questions, and role-play Effective ways of determining what limits to set in the playroom and how to set them in a therapeutically effective manner Clear methods for monitoring children's progress through stages as well as external measures of progress Practical guidance in adjunct therapist tasks such as playroom set-up, documentation, ending therapy, and working with parents, teachers, and principals Endorsed by Louise Guerney—a founding child-centered play therapy figure who developed the skills-based methods covered in this book—Child-Centered Play Therapy comprehensively and realistically introduces practitioners to the child-centered approach to play therapy and addresses how to incorporate the approach into schools, agencies, or private practice.

Author : Linnet McMahon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134929080
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Play Therapy written by Linnet McMahon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child abuse cases and problems created by breakdowns in family relationships have highlighted the need for sound techniques for communicating with children. As a result, there is renewed interest in the therapeutic use of play to help prevent or repair emotional damage in both children and their families. The Handbook of Play Therapy is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of play therapy. It provides a practical guide to the basic skills necessary to begin tapping the healing potential of play and gives many examples of good practice.

Author : Clair Mellenthin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351858807
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Attachment Centered Play Therapy written by Clair Mellenthin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attachment Centered Play Therapy offers clinicians a holistic, play-based approach to child and family therapy that is presented through the lens of attachment theory. Along the way, chapters explore the theoretical underpinnings of attachment theory to provide a foundational understanding of the theory while also supplying evidence-based interventions, practical strategies, and illuminative case studies. This informative new resource strives to combine theory and practice in a single intuitive model designed to maximize the child-parent relationship, repair attachment wounds, and address underlying symptoms of trauma.

Author : Sue C. Bratton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136659536
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) Treatment Manual written by Sue C. Bratton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-07-26 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is the highly recommended companion to CPRT: A 10-Session Filial Therapy Model. Accompanied by a CD-Rom of training materials, which allows for ease of reproduction and enhanced usability, the workbook will help the facilitator of the filial training and will provide a much needed educational outline to allow filial therapists to pass their knowledge on to parents. The Treatment Manual provides a comprehensive outline and detailed guidelines for each of the ten sessions, facilitating the training process for both the parents and the therapist. The book contains a designed structure for the therapy training described in the book, with child-centered play therapy principles and skills, such as reflective listening, recognizing and responding to children’s feelings, therapeutic limit setting, building children’s self-esteem, and structuring required weekly play sessions with their children using a special kit of selected toys. Bratton and her co-authors recommend teaching aids, course materials, and activities for each session, as well as worksheets for parents to complete between sessions. By using this workbook and CD-Rom to accompany the CPRT book, filial therapy leaders will have a complete package for use in training parents to act as therapeutic agents with their own children. They provide the therapist with a complete package for training parents to act as therapeutic agents with their own children.

Author : Virginia M. Axline
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345303350
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play Therapy written by Virginia M. Axline and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1981-12-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Maria Giordano
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780765701114
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Practical Handbook for Building the Play Therapy Relationship written by Maria Giordano and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource is designed for practitioners, students, and play therapy supervisors. It describes the fundamental skills of building a therapeutic relationship by providing written exercises, case study examples with correct and incorrect dialogue interactions, and video review and reflection exercises.

Author : Jodi Ann Mullen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979628702
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play Therapy Basic Training Workbook written by Jodi Ann Mullen and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jodi Ann Mullen
Publisher : Integrative Counseling Services
ISBN 13 : 9780979628733
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play Therapy Basic Training Workbook written by Jodi Ann Mullen and published by Integrative Counseling Services. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Play Therapy Basic Training Workbook: A manual for learning and living the child-centered play therapy philosophy guides budding and seasoned play and child therapists through a philosophical orientation to child-centered play therapy while simultaneously integrating reflective and experiential exercises that are relevant to clinical practice. Readers are engaged in the learning process from start to finish and as a result will witness personal and professional growth with completion of each section. Some chapter highlights includes: Childhood as a culture Stages of child-centered play therapy How to set limits in a play therapy session Is the child ready for termination?