Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, Second Edition
Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, Second Edition

Author: Heidi Gerard Kaduson

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2006-08-17

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1606237314

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This volume presents a variety of play approaches that facilitate children's healing in a shorter time frame. Invaluable for any clinician seeking to optimize limited time with clients, the book provides effective methods for treating children struggling with such challenges as posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, disruptive behavior, mood disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and parental divorce. Individual, family, and group treatment models are described and illustrated with richly detailed case examples. Featuring session-by-session guidelines, chapters demonstrate how to engage clients rapidly, develop appropriate treatment goals, and implement carefully structured brief interventions that yield lasting results.

Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, Second Edition
Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, Second Edition

Author: Heidi Gerard Kaduson

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2009-06-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781606233535

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This volume presents a variety of play approaches that facilitate children's healing in a shorter time frame. Invaluable for any clinician seeking to optimize limited time with clients, the book provides effective methods for treating children struggling with such challenges as posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, disruptive behavior, mood disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and parental divorce. Individual, family, and group treatment models are described and illustrated with richly detailed case examples. Featuring session-by-session guidelines, chapters demonstrate how to engage clients rapidly, develop appropriate treatment goals, and implement carefully structured brief interventions that yield lasting results.

Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, Third Edition
Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, Third Edition

Author: Heidi Gerard Kaduson

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2016-06-29

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1462527841

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"Subject Areas/Keywords: adolescents, art therapy, behavioral problems, brief, child psychotherapy, children, creative therapies, developmental disabilities, emotional problems, families, family, interventions, parents, play therapy, psychological disorders, short-term, solution-focused, trauma DESCRIPTION Illustrated with rich case examples, this widely used practitioner resource and text presents a range of play approaches that facilitate healing in a shorter time frame. Leading play therapists from diverse theoretical orientations show how to tailor brief interventions to each child's needs. Individual, family, and group treatment models are described and clinical guidelines are provided. Chapters demonstrate ways to rapidly build alliances with children, adolescents, and their caregivers; plan treatment for frequently encountered clinical problems; and get the most out of play materials and techniques."--

Short-term Psychotherapy Groups for Children
Short-term Psychotherapy Groups for Children

Author: Charles E. Schaefer

Publisher: Jason Aronson

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13:

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This comprehensive manual offers specific how-to guidelines for conducting a wide range of psychotherapy groups and detailed session-by-session descriptions of sixteen structured group interventions. Time-limited, structured, educational, and goal-oriented, these groups focus on such core treatment issues as separation and divorce, alcoholism, bereavement, sexual abuse, fears and anxieties, anger management, weight loss, and encopresis.

Contemporary Play Therapy
Contemporary Play Therapy

Author: Charles E. Schaefer

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2007-10-18

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1593856334

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This highly practical book presents current developments in play therapy, including innovative applications for particular problems and populations. Contributors first discuss the latest ideas and techniques emerging from object relations, experiential, dynamic, and narrative perspectives. Next, research evaluating the effectiveness of play interventions is reviewed in detail. The book's third and largest section demonstrates creative approaches for helping children deal with a variety of adverse circumstances: homelessness, family problems, sexual abuse, social aggression, natural disasters, and more. Throughout, rich case illustrations enhance the book's utility for clinicians.

Play Therapy
Play Therapy

Author: Garry L. Landreth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 0415886813

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First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Innovations in Play Therapy
Innovations in Play Therapy

Author: Garry L. Landreth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1135058016

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This book is unique in exploring the process of conducting short-term intensive group play therapy and the subsequent results. It focuses on play therapy with special populations of aggressive acting-out children, autistic children, chronically ill children, traumatized children, selective mute children, disassociative identity disorder adults with child alters, and the elderly. The book addresses such vital issues as: * How play therapy helps children * Confidentiality in working with children * How to work with parents * What the play therapist needs to know about medications for children The difficult dimension of diagnosis is clarified through specific descriptions of how the play therapist can use play behaviors to diagnose physical abuse, sexual abuse, and emotional maladjustment in children.

Play Therapy for Preschool Children
Play Therapy for Preschool Children

Author: Charles E. Schaefer

Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Published: 2010-01

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 9781433805660

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Play Therapy for Preschool Children is a comprehensive sourcebook of play interventions for preventing and resolving the most common disorders of children aged 3-5 years old.

Play Therapy Techniques
Play Therapy Techniques

Author: Charles E. Schaefer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0765703602

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The second edition of Play Therapy Techniques includes seven new chapters in addition to the original twenty-four. These lively chapters expand the comprehensive scope of the book by describing issues involved in beginning and ending therapy, using metaphors, playing music and ball, and applying the renowned "Color Your Life" technique. The extensive selection of play techniques described in this book will add to the clinical repertoire of students and practitioners of child therapy and counseling. When used in combination with formal education and clinical supervision, Play Therapy Techniques, Second Edition, can be especially useful for developing treatment plans to address the specific needs of various clinical populations. Students and practitioners of child therapy and counseling, including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and child life specialists will find this second of Play Therapy Techniques informative and clinically useful.