Play Therapy Treatment Planning and Interventions
Play Therapy Treatment Planning and Interventions

Author: Kevin John O'Connor

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0080920217

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Play Therapy: Treatment Planning and Interventions: The Ecosystemic Model and Workbook, 2e, provides key information on one of the most rapidly developing and growing areas of therapy. Ecosystemic play therapy is a dynamic integrated therapeutic model for addressing the mental health needs of children and their families. The book is designed to help play therapists develop specific treatment goals and focused treatment plans as now required by many regulating agencies and third-party payers. Treatment planning is based on a comprehensive case conceptualization that is developmentally organized, strength-based, and grounded in an ecosystemic context of multiple interacting systems. The text presents guidelines for interviewing clients and families as well as pretreatment assessments and data gathering for ecosystemic case conceptualization. The therapist's theoretical model, expertise, and context are considered. The book includes descriptions of actual play therapy activities organized by social-emotional developmental levels of the children. Any preparation the therapist may need to complete before the session is identified, as is the outcome the therapist may expect. Each activity description ends with a suggestion about how the therapist might follow up on the content and experience in future sessions. The activity descriptions are practical and geared to the child. Case examples and completed sections of the workbook are provided. It provides the therapist with an easy-to-use format for recording critical case information, specific treatment goals, and the overall treatment plan. Workbook templates can be downloaded and adapted for the therapist's professional practice. - Presents a comprehensive theory of play therapy - Clearly relates the theoretical model to interventions - Provides examples of the application of both the theory and the intervention model to specific cases - Describes actual play therapy activities - Workbook format provides a means of obtaining comprehensive intake and assessment data - Case examples provided throughout

The Educator′s Guide to Teaching Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders
The Educator′s Guide to Teaching Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Author: Josefa Ben-Arieh

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2009-03-18

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1452272549

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"An excellent, practitioner-friendly resource for identifying, applying, and evaluating maximally effective interventions and treatments for students with autism-related disorders." —Richard L. Simpson, Professor of Special Education University of Kansas "I highly recommend this book. This is a valuable, comprehensive, and user-friendly resource with realistic case studies that show how collaboration occurs with related services." —Gloria Wolpert, Autism Program Director Manhattan College Specific, proven strategies for successfully teaching students with Autism Spectrum Disorders! This guide brings the most recent advancements in evidence-based interventions to both novice and experienced educators who are looking for practical and meaningful strategies for teaching students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The authors provide step-by-step, field-tested guidelines that connect with Individualized Education Program goals, illustrate how to write a behavior intervention plan, and demonstrate methods for delivering effective interventions, including applied behavior analysis, functional behavior assessment, and positive behavioral supports. This concise handbook features sidebars highlighting major points, vignettes, and summaries, and includes many sample materials, tools, and reproducible forms. Teachers get the "nuts and bolts" on Identifying and including students with ASD in the general education classroom Organizing the classroom environment, creating space, and managing time Promoting independence, communication, and socially appropriate behaviors Selecting visual strategies, tools, and curriculum resources This user-friendly resource presents educators with a solid framework for delivering first-rate services to foster confidence and success for every student with ASD.

Prescriptive Play Therapy
Prescriptive Play Therapy

Author: Heidi Gerard Kaduson

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2019-10-21

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1462541674

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This book helps practitioners choose from the broad range of play therapy approaches to create a comprehensive treatment plan that meets the individual needs of each child. From leaders in the field, the volume provides a flexible roadmap for assessment, case formulation, and intervention for frequently encountered psychological disorders and adversities. The focus is creating a unique therapy "prescription" that is tailored to the child's presenting problems as well as his or her strengths, challenges, and developmental level. Contributors present up-to-date knowledge on each clinical problem, describe practices that have been shown to be effective, and share vivid illustrations of work with 3- to 16-year-olds and their parents.

Play Therapy Theory and Practice
Play Therapy Theory and Practice

Author: Kevin J. O'Connor

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780471106388

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This books provides readers with an opportunity to gain a practical, hands-on understanding of how current approaches to play therapy work, as well as the underlying principles upon which they are based. -- Book Jacket.

Expressive Therapies
Expressive Therapies

Author: Cathy A. Malchiodi

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2013-11-27

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1462514901

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This book is out of print. See Handbook of Expressive Arts Therapy, ISBN 978-1-4625-5052-4.

Assessment and Programming for Young Children with Low-Incidence Handicaps
Assessment and Programming for Young Children with Low-Incidence Handicaps

Author: Cecil R. Reynolds

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1475792980

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The public schools have taken on increasing responsibility over the last decade for providing in-school educational services to chil dren with low-incidence handicaps, children who, not very many years ago, would have been relegated to custodial care or limited to care only in the home. With the increasing responsibility for educating these children has come recognition that few of us have the requisite knowledge or skills to deliver high-quality services to these chil dren. University programs are providing more staff, but the existing staff must also be trained. We have been involved for several years, with the special education branch of the Nebraska Department of Edu cation in the provision of in-service training in the early identifi cation and assessment of handicapping conditions, when we realized an even greater need for training regular classroom teachers, administra tors, and psychologists in addition to early childhood special educa tion personnel about the nature of low-incidence handicaps and how they might be dealt with in the public school setting. Knowing the enormity and the expense of such an undertaking, we tenuously ap proached the State Department. They too were cognizant of this need and welcomed our ideas. Jan Thelen and her capable staff then took to coordinating the planning with us and the Nebraska Department of Education provided the fundings.

The Play Therapy Primer
The Play Therapy Primer

Author: Kevin J. O'Connor

Publisher:

Published: 1991-05-08

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13:

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"While most mental health professionals possess a general knowledge of psychotherapy, not all are aware of the applications and special considerations that pertain to child patients. Unlike treatment for adults, a therapist treating a young patient must balance between cognitive and verbal work and the use of corrective emotional experiences- a balance that properly suits the developmental level of the child. Simply put, a therapist must do more and talk less with a young child, while the reverse generally applies with an older patient. Many books in the field describe either theories and/or techniques of child psychotherapy in general, or play therapy in particular. This book differs in two ways. First, it describes play therapy using cognitive developmental theory as an organizing framework and incorporates elements of a variety of other theories, techniques, and models of child psychotherapy. The result is a coherent theoretical model that fosters the therapist's ability to identify and interpret the multiple systems of which the child is a part. This model can be readily adapted for use in a wide variety of settings with children from infancy through adolescence who exhibit any of a host of psychopathologies."-- Book Jacket