Play in Clinical Practice: Evidence-Based Approaches
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Going beyond traditional play therapy, this innovative book presents a range of evidence-based assessment and intervention approaches that incorporate play as a key element. It is grounded in the latest knowledge about the importance of play in child development. Leading experts describe effective strategies for addressing a wide variety of clinical concerns, including behavioral difficulties, anxiety, parent–child relationship issues, trauma, and autism. The empirical support for each approach is summarized and clinical techniques are illustrated. The book also discusses school-based prevention programs that utilize play to support children's learning and social-emotional functioning.
Play Therapy Primary Areas:- History
- Seminal / Historically Significant Theories
- Skills and Methods
- Special Topics
- Analyze research results on the relationship between play and various aspects of child development.
- Describe constructs that play-based assessment instruments measure.
- Explain play-related characteristics of various evidence-based interventions with children.
- List patterns of results in research on various evidence-based interventions with children.
- Discuss and describe "Standardized Testing".
- Explain PCIT.
Play in Family Therapy, Second Edition
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This classic volume, now completely revised, has helped tens of thousands of therapists integrate play therapy and family therapy techniques in clinical practice. Eliana Gil demonstrates a broad range of verbal and nonverbal strategies for engaging all family members--including those who are ambivalent toward therapy--and tailoring interventions for different types of presenting problems. Numerous case examples illustrate ways to effectively use puppets, storytelling, art making, the family play genogram, drama, and other expressive techniques with children, adolescents, and their parents. Gil offers specific guidance for becoming a more flexible, creative practitioner and shows how recent advances in neuroscience support her approach. Photographs of client artwork are included.
Play Therapy Primary Areas:
- History
- Seminal / Historically Significant Theories
- Skills and Methods
- Special Topics
- Identify why children are often not included in family therapy.
- Identify how metaphors assist the client in family play therapy.
- Identify and define the three dimensions of creative development.
- Identify at least three family play therapy activities.
Play Therapy and Expressive Arts in a Complex and Dynamic World
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This book offers cutting-edge expertise and knowledge in new and developing play therapy, therapeutic play, and expressive arts for families and children in crisis and challenging situations. The book focuses on the use of play therapies in complex and dynamic situations such as pandemics, post-disaster conditions, crisis, migration, poverty, and deprivation. Evidence in the book is rooted in theory and contains examples of direct clinical experiences of play therapy approaches by the authors from across six continents, offering innovative methods to apply expressive arts modalities across different situations. It highlights the need to understand the context and needs of the children and families in their particular situations and provides examples of application of therapeutic principles and techniques in individual and group settings and within schools and communities. With reflections and guidance on how to support children in reaching their potential in a variety of difficult contexts, the book will be key reading for scholars and researchers in the fields of play therapy, expressive arts therapies, and creative psychotherapy, as well as professionals in these areas.
Play Therapy Primary Areas:
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Special Topics
- Cultural and Social Diversity
- Identify 4 key considerations regarding play therapy and expressive arts within various approaches to crisis work.
- Describe 5 unique settings and corresponding approaches in play therapy and expressive arts.
- Identify 5 applications of play therapy and expressive in field-based work in and professional development.
Play Therapy Dimensions Model: A Decision-Making Guide for Therapists
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Play Therapy Primary Areas:
- History
- Seminal / Historically Significant Theories
- Skills and Methods
- Describe the two primary dimensions conceptualized in model, along with the four quadrants that relate to therapeutic decision making.
- Identify the commonalities and differences in existing models and approaches to play therapy and map them on the model.
- Identify the advantages of an integrative approach to play therapy that is based on the child's needs and development, as identified through specific child moderating factors.
- Describe ways a therapist might immerse him/herself in the play process, and identify the potential impact and outcome of each type of immersion.
- Identify three stages of therapist development, according to the developmental model of supervision and discuss two primary bridging activities a supervisor may use to facilitate growth in each phase.
Play Therapy for Very Young Children
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Research has shown that a child's social and academic success can be greatly influenced by experiences from infancy and toddlerhood. Despite this knowledge, the importance of infant mental health has only recently been recognized. This book is one of the first to present the major models of play interventions with very young children and their families. In this collection of essays by child development experts, the editors provide a comprehensive guide of the most beneficial effects of play therapy and play for the very young. Regardless of the theoretical orientation of the play therapist, this book will help the clinician to conceptualize the worlds of infants and toddlers, and explain the specific play therapy interventions that can be effectively utilized. Contributors address specific therapies from cultures around the world, including caregiver-toddler play therapy, filial play therapy, mother-infant play, and play based interventions with young children with disabilities and autism. This book is essential for students and professionals who work with very young children.
Play Therapy Primary Areas:
- Seminal / Historically Significant Theories
- Skills and Methods
- Special Topics
- Identify the major models of play interventions for infants and toddlers.
- Describe a wide variety of therapeutic play strategies for very young children.
- Discuss the importance of early intervention for young children exhibiting behavior problems.
- Articulate the ways parents can become involved in play interventions.
- Cite evidence for the effectiveness of play therapies for very young children.
- Analyze effective play-based prevention programs for very young children.
- Illustrate the role of play in fostering secure attachments in very young children.
- Recognize the challenges of early intervention through illustrative case studies.
Play Therapy in Asia
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This edited volume seeks to highlight the development of play therapy in various countries and cities in Asia. The editors discuss how mostly Western play-therapy approaches are adapted for use in Asian countries. Contributors to the volume, who are experts in using play therapy to work with clients from their own cultures, offer unique discussions using a case-study approach to integrate the theory and practice of play therapy across different Asian countries. Having existed for years in the West, play therapy is still in its early stage of development in most Asian countries, including mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. This is the first play-therapy book written by experts from specific Asian cultures for practitioners and students who are working in the mental-health field for Asian groups. Each chapter first describes play-therapy development in that particular culture and then uses a case study to illustrate how play therapy can be adapted to suit specific cultural beliefs and environments in order to connect parents with their children or to address clients' needs.
Play Therapy Primary Areas:
- Seminal / Historically Significant Theories
- Skills and Methods
- Special Topics
- Describe play therapy development, training, and research in different Asian countries
- Identify the impact of cultural values, beliefs, and communication styles on play therapy treatment process in Asian societies
- Explain the need to modify play therapy treatment approaches when working with children and their families in Asia
- Examine culturally responsive implications for adapting the play therapy process and the toys and play materials from Western cultures
Play Therapy in Middle Childhood
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Children ages 6-12 undergo major developmental changes. During this period, known as middle childhood, they develop a more advanced sense of self, emotion regulation skills, and self-confidence. They become less dependent on their parents and learn to form connections with peers. They also learn to follow rules and reach achievements through sustained effort. Because of these social, emotional, and cognitive developments, play therapy with these children looks different than with younger children. This book helps therapists provide developmentally appropriate, effective play therapy for children in middle childhood. It presents a broad range of play interventions, showing how play therapy can be used with school-age children and their parents to address internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders, relational deficits, and autism spectrum disorder. For each intervention presented, the authors explain the theory and research supporting it and provide an illustrative case example. Readers will learn to choose treatment goals and strategies that are informed by the child’s developmental needs.
Play Therapy Primary Areas:
- Seminal / Historically Significant Theories
- Skills and Methods
- Special Topics
- Identify at least four ways to utilize play therapy with middle childhood children
- Utilize at least 10 different play-based activities for individual therapy
- Utilize at least 10 different play-based activities for use in group therapy
- Identify the therapeutic powers of play in play therapy
Play Therapy Interventions to Enhance Resilience
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The importance of therapeutic play in helping children recover from adversity has long been recognized. This unique volume brings together experts on resilience, trauma, and play therapy to describe effective treatment approaches in this key area. The book begins by providing guiding principles for intervention and describing the specific properties of play that promote resilience. Subsequent chapters delve into clinical applications, including such strategies as storytelling and metaphors, sand play, art therapy, play therapy adaptations for school settings, group interventions, and the use of therapeutic writing. Rich case studies and vignettes demonstrate creative ways to bolster at-risk children's strengths and enhance their natural capacity to thrive.
Play Therapy Primary Areas:
- Special Topics
- Describe at least six guideposts for nurturing a resilient mindset
- Identify the eight therapeutic mechanisms of Rutter (1999) in their application to Play Therapy (Seymour, 2014) and note their relationship to resilience-based therapy.
- Define resilience-based treatment elements that are particularly important when providing therapy to persons who have experienced significant life trauma as an individual and/or in the context of surviving mass trauma.
- Describe at least three special factors that impact the provision of resilience- based therapy in a school setting.
- Share at least one person’s experience of resilience-based Play Therapy (i.e., one of the case presentations in the book) and share how this inspired them in their own clinical work.
Play Therapy with Adolescents
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Play Therapy Primary Areas:
- History
- Seminal / Historically Significant Theories
- Skills and Methods
- Special Topics
- Identify the unique characteristics and needs of adolescents in treatment and identify play therapy techniques to effectively meet those needs.
- Explain the rationale for and advantages of using play therapy with adolescent clients, and will learn some of the special considerations for the use of this modality when working with this population.
- Identify strategies for utilizing play therapy to establish trust and build therapeutic relationships with adolescent clients.
- Describe strategies for adapting play therapy approaches typically utilized with younger children such as Theraplay and Filial Therapy, to provide a developmentally appropriate approach to therapy with adolescents.
- Identify play therapy approaches and playful therapeutic techniques that have been found to be useful for working with adolescents. This includes review of historical and theoretical foundations as well as practical applications.
- Describe the use of play therapy and some specific approaches with adolescents in specific populations, such as those in foster care or those diagnosed with eating disorders.
- Identify the unique benefits of both directive and non-directive play therapy approaches with adolescents and describe specific adolescent populations or issues that might warrant one approach over another.
Play Therapy with Adults
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Play Therapy Primary Areas:
- History
- Seminal / Historically Significant Theories
- Skills and Methods
- Special Topics
- Identify and describe various play therapy modalities that can be used with adults.
- List reasons why various play therapy methods would be used with adults in conjunction with or as an alternative to traditional talk therapy.
- Describe the training requirements needed to practice at least 2 modalities of play therapy.
- Speak on the healing potential of adults at play.
- Integrate humor into adult psychotherapy.
- Apply play interventions with the elderly.
- Utilize sandplay therapy with adults.