The Play Therapy Primer

by O'Connor, Kevin J.

• ISBN13: 9780471248736
• ISBN10: 0471248738
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-22
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The clinically indispensable guide to using play in therapy, revised and updated. Featuring new approaches developed since the publication of the successful first edition, The Play Therapy Primer, Second Edition offers health care professionals and students a balance of fundamentals, theory, and practical techniques for using play in therapy. Providing an ecosystemic perspective, the book defines distinctive approaches to the practice of play therapy that readers can integrate into a personalized and internally consistent theory and practice of their own. This timely resource also includes increased coverage of developmental issues and a new chapter discussing diversity issues with case examples.Presenting stimulating and useful information for therapists at all levels of training, The Play Therapy Primer covers: A history of play therapy The major theories of play therapy in use today Ecosystemic Play Therapy theory and practice A conceptual framework for the practice of individual play therapy The course of individual play therapy Structured group play therapy Session-by-session treatment plans

Author Biography

KEVIN J. OCONNOR, PhD, RPT-S, is Professor and Director of the Ecosystemic Clinical Child Psychology Program at the California School of Professional Psychology. He is the cofounder of the Association for Play Therapy and currently serves on its Board. He maintains a private practice treating children and their families and is the author of several widely used texts on play therapy in general and Ecosytemic Play Therapy in particular.

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction
Definition and History of Play Therapy	3	(15)
Theories of Play Therapy	18	(41)
Diversity Issues	59	(28)
Part II A Conceptual Framework for the Practice of Individual Play Therapy
Theoretical Underpinnings of Play Therapy	87	(49)
Basic Assumptions of Ecosystemic Play Therapy	136	(21)
Part III The Course of Individual Play Therapy
The Intake Process	157	(34)
Assessment, Case Formulation, and Treatment Planning	191	(44)
Beginning Treatment	235	(19)
Making Play Therapy Sessions Therapeutic	254	(49)
Developmental and Phase-Specific Modifications of Ecosystemic Play Therapy	303	(20)
Transference and Countertransference	323	(9)
Collateral Work	332	(19)
Termination	351	(14)
Case Examples: Dennis and Diane	365	(48)
Part IV Ecosystemic Play Therapy for Groups
Group Play Therapy	413	(22)
References	435	(20)
Author Index	455	(6)
Subject Index	461