The Magic Rainbow Hug

The Magic Rainbow Hug

Author: Janet Courtney

Publisher:

Published: 2013-01-07

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780615737041

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The Magic Rainbow Hug is a heartfelt story designed to help children overcome fear and anxiety and learn methods of calming and relaxation. The story is about Sophie and Jesse, two young, curious siblings who, along with their lovable puppy, discover the joyful magic of a calming Rainbow Hug. This book provides an optional activity element where parts of the uplifting story can also be told by drawing it on a child's back. Each page gives simple instructions on how to do the activity motions that follow along with the storyline. It is an innovative form of storytelling that will inspire, entertain and enlighten children of all ages. Positive suggestions are interspersed throughout the book to help children learn methods of relaxation and how to draw upon their inner strengths and abilities. The vibrant illustrations were drawn by two talented siblings, Grace, age 8, and Benjamin, age 10, who were inspired by hearing the creative story, and also by feeling it sketched on thier backs.


Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families

Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families

Author: Lynn Louise Wonders

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-03-29

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1003854931

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Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families is a comprehensive guide that provides an integrative and prescriptive approach to creating customized treatment plans. It’s an excellent textbook for graduate programs in social work, counseling, and family therapy and an invaluable guide for practicing clinicians in all settings. After exploring and explaining the many modalities for treating children and adolescents, this book provides sample treatment plans using a variety of case vignettes. Chapters also take readers through a road map for case conceptualization, meeting with caregivers, problem identification, goal development, diagnosis determination, determination of interventions and termination, and much more.


Healing Child and Family Trauma through Expressive and Play Therapies: Art, Nature, Storytelling, Body & Mindfulness

Healing Child and Family Trauma through Expressive and Play Therapies: Art, Nature, Storytelling, Body & Mindfulness

Author: Janet A. Courtney PhD, RPT-S

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0393713768

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Healing assessments and interventions from disparate areas of knowledge such as art, nature, and storytelling. There are many ways to help children and families heal from trauma. Leaning on our ancestral wisdom of healing through play, art, nature, storytelling, body, touch, imagination, and mindfulness practice, Janet A. Courtney helps the clinician bring a variety of practices into the therapy room. This book identifies seven stages of therapy that provide a framework for working with client’s emotional, cognitive, somatic, and sensory experiences to heal from trauma. Through composite case illustrations, practitioners will learn how to safely mitigate a range of trauma content, including complicated grief, natural disaster, children in foster care, aggression, toxic divorce, traumatized infants diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome, and young mothers recovering from opioid addiction. Practice exercises interspersed throughout guide practitioners to personally engage in the creative expressive and play therapy techniques presented in each chapter, augmenting professional self- awareness and skill- building competencies.


Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy

Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy

Author: Janet A. Courtney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-02-24

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1317241975

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Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy explores the professional and legal boundaries around physical contact in therapy and offers best-practice guidelines from a variety of perspectives. Chapters address issues around appropriate and sensitive therapist-initiated touch, therapeutic approaches that use touch as an intervention in child treatment, and both positive and challenging forms of touch that are initiated by children. In these pages, professionals and students alike will find valuable information on ways to address potential ethical dilemmas, including defining boundaries, working with parents and guardians, documentation, consent forms, cultural considerations, countertransference, and much more.


Starhug

Starhug

Author: Cindy Wong

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781737194408

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A magical book about a star and sea star waking up one day and feeling grumpy. Join them on their emotional journey of hope and healing by finding kindness, an inclusive community and a hug always helps.


Infant Play Therapy

Infant Play Therapy

Author: Janet A. Courtney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-03-12

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0429841639

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Infant Play Therapy is a groundbreaking resource for practitioners interested in the varied play therapy theories, models, and programs available for the unique developmental needs of infants and children under the age of three. The impressive list of expert contributors in the fields of play therapy and infant mental health cover a wide range of early intervention play-based models and topics. Chapters explore areas including: neurobiology, developmental trauma, parent-infant attachment relationships, neurosensory play, affective touch, grief and loss, perinatal depression, adoption, autism, domestic violence, sociocultural factors, and more. Chapter case studies highlight leading approaches and offer techniques to provide a comprehensive understanding of both play therapy and the ways we understand and recognize the therapeutic role of play with infants. In these pages professionals and students alike will find valuable clinical resources to bring healing to family systems with young children.


Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within

Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within

Author: Joyce C. Mills

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1134611056

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Winner of the 1988 Clark Vincent Award for an "outstanding contribution to the profession through a literary work" and translated into four languages, the original edition of Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within was considered a groundbreaking addition to the field of child and adolescent psychotherapy. The 1986 edition was the first—and to this day the only—book that solely intertwines the extraordinary foundational teachings and philosophies of Milton H. Erickson and creative healing approaches for children and adolescents. With resiliency at its core, this revision now brings forward important topics related to neurobiology and cultural value of metaphor and play, along with fresh case examples and creative activities to a new generation of mental health, education, and coaching professionals.


My Magic Rainbow Book

My Magic Rainbow Book

Author: Mandy Sullivan

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2021-05-21

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 1504324331

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Join Beth the butterfly and Dan the dragonfly as they treat children to a magical journey, teaching them how to visualise the majestic colours in rainbows and how to direct the colours to specific parts of their bodies. Each colour performs a different task to help ease anxiety and provide inner strength. They’ll show you how to try new things when you are feeling nervous, feel loved even if loved ones can’t be with you, to be creative, to cope with the unkindness of others and even how to get some energy when it is chore time! Children can then take Beth and Dan’s lessons out into the world, equipping them with a powerful visualisation tool and making their world more magical.