101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques

by Kaduson, Heidi; Schaefer, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780765700407
• ISBN10: 0765700409
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

Building on children's natural inclinations to pretend and reenact, play therapy is widely used in the treatment of psychological problems in childhood. 101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques incorporates methods developed to elicit the best responses

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Section One: Fantasy Techniques	1	(16)
The Playing Baby Game	3	(3)
Charles E. Schaefer
Using Guided Imagery to Augment the Play Therapy Process	6	(5)
Kevin O'Connor
The Rosebush	11	(3)
Violet Oaklander
Pretending to Know How	14	(3)
S. Eileen Theiss
Section Two: Storytelling Techniques	17	(36)
The Feeling Word Game	19	(3)
Heidi Gerard Kaduson
The Card Story Game	22	(4)
Norma Y. Leben
Storytelling with Felts	26	(4)
Linda Mattingly
The Box of Buttons Technique	30	(2)
Jo Ann L. Cook
Computer Storytelling	32	(3)
N. E. Brewer
Using Metaphors, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling in Psychotherapy with Children	35	(5)
Jamshid A. Marvasti
Art or Verbal Metaphors for Children Experiencing Loss	40	(4)
Glenda F. Short
The Guess My Word Story Game	44	(2)
Mary Repp
The Scarf Story	46	(4)
Steve Harvey
Storytelling with Objects	50	(3)
Jackie K. Frederiksen
Section Three: Expressive Arts Techniques	53	(82)
The Before and After Drawing Technique	55	(4)
Donna Cangelosi
Feeling Balloons	59	(2)
Glenda F. Short
Magic Art	61	(3)
Ruby Walker
The Yarn Drawing Game	64	(3)
Norma Y. Leben
Clayscapes	67	(3)
Lynn B. Hadley
Bad Dreams	70	(2)
L. G. Agre
The Personality Pie	72	(5)
Tara M. Sinclair
Life Maps	77	(3)
Glenda F. Short
Play Art	80	(3)
Lynn B. Hadley
Gloop: Treating Sensory Deprivation	83	(4)
Neil Cabe
The Clay Squiggle Technique	87	(3)
Richard Frankel
Expressive Arts Playdough	90	(3)
Lynn B. Hadley
Inner-Reference	93	(4)
Aimee H. Short
Reworking	97	(3)
Sheri Saxe
A Line Down the Middle of the Page	100	(4)
Dolores M. Conyers
Create-a-Community	104	(4)
Nancy H. Cochran
Outline Drawings of Boys and Girls	108	(6)
Barbara A. Turner
The Picture Drawing Game	114	(4)
Stanley Kissel
The Color-Emotive Brain	118	(3)
Sheldon Berger
Jonna L. Tyler
Scribble Art	121	(4)
Leslie Hartley Lowe
The Feelings Tree	125	(3)
Joyce Meagher
Design-A-Dad	128	(5)
Stazan K. Sina
Synthetic Clay in Play Therapy	133	(2)
Martha D. Young
Section Four: Game Play Techniques	135	(48)
Checkers: Rules or No Rules	137	(2)
L. G. Agre
Beat the Clock	139	(3)
Heidi Gerard Kaduson
Pounding Away Bad Feelings	142	(3)
Donna Cangelosi
The Pick-Up-Sticks Game	145	(5)
Barbara McDowell
The Stealing Game	150	(5)
Steve Harvey
Consequences: Reaching the Oppositional Defiant Adolescent	155	(3)
Neil Cabe
Hide-and-Seek in Play Therapy	158	(5)
John Allan
Mary Anne Pare
The Spy and the Sneak	163	(2)
Bria Bartlett-Simpson
Pool Play: Helping Children Get Out from Behind the Eight Ball	165	(6)
Stanley Kissel
Tumbling Feelings: Easing Children into the Counseling Relationship	171	(4)
Christina Mattise
Make Your Own Board Game	175	(3)
Sandy Carter
Chess Playing as a Metaphor for Life Choices	178	(5)
Leslie Hartley Lowe
Section Five: Puppet Play Techniques	183	(30)
Battaro and the Puppet House	185	(6)
Martha J. Harkin
The Dowel Finger Puppet Technique	191	(3)
Jo Ann L. Cook
Create-A-Puppet	194	(5)
Anne Blackwell
Using a Puppet to Create a Symbolic Client	199	(5)
Carolyn J. Narcavage
Puppetry	204	(5)
Marie Boultinghouse
On the One Hand...and Then on the Other	209	(4)
Christina Mattise
Section Six: Play Toys and Objects Techniques	213	(82)
BodySox	215	(2)
Kimberly Dye
The Me Doll	217	(5)
Jessica Stone-Phennicie
Tearing Paper	222	(2)
Kathy Daves
The Mad Game	224	(2)
Patricia Davidson
Sculpt-It	226	(4)
Michael Cascio
The Magic Carpet Technique	230	(3)
Dolores M. Conyers
The Snake	233	(3)
Alan Lobaugh
The Baby Bottle Technique	236	(3)
Diane Murray
The T-Shirt Technique	239	(5)
Nancy H. Cochran
The Photo Album Technique	244	(2)
Sueanne Brown
The Angry Tower	246	(4)
Sheri Saxe
Balloons of Anger	250	(4)
Tammy Horn
The Worry Can Technique	254	(3)
Debbie S. Jones
The Cardboard City	257	(5)
Berrell Mallery
Randall Martin
Fortune Tellers	262	(6)
Judith Friedman Babcock
Jenga and a Camera	268	(4)
Catherine G. Tierney
The Anger Shield	272	(4)
Teresa A. Glatthorn
Using Self-Made Books to Prepare Children for Predictable Trauma or Crisis	276	(5)
Kevin O'Connor
The Angry Feeling Scale Game	281	(2)
Joyce Meagher
Stomping Feet and Bubble Popping	283	(3)
Cathy Wunderlich
Knocking Down the Walls of Anger	286	(5)
Jennifer Leonetti
Figures	291	(4)
Sylvia Fisher
Section Seven: Group Play Techniques	295	(30)
ElastaBlast	297	(2)
Kimberly Dye
Group Building Activity	299	(2)
Glenda F. Short
The Captains of Avatar: A Space Adventure for Children in Transition	301	(12)
Tara M. Sinclair
Mr. Ugly	313	(3)
Mary May Schmidt
Therapeutic Puppet Group	316	(2)
Aileen Cunliffe
Group Puppet Show	318	(2)
Glenda F. Short
Mutual Storytelling through Puppet Play in Group Play Therapy	320	(5)
Mitch Jacobs
Section Eight: Other Techniques	325	(73)
Using Drawings of Early Recollections to Facilitate Life Style Analysis for Children in Play Therapy	327	(6)
Harold M. Heidt
Self Figures for Sand Tray	333	(4)
L. Jean Ley
Jean Howze
The Worry List	337	(6)
Richard Sloves
My Baby Book	343	(4)
Karen Pitzen
The Song Flute or Recorder	347	(6)
Robert W. Freeman
The Starting Over Wedding Gown Ceremony	353	(4)
Patricia B. Grigoryev
Play Therapy and Pets	357	(5)
Mary-Lynn Harrison
The Twelve-to-One Technique	362	(4)
Mary May Schmidt
The Therapist on the Inside	366	(4)
Patricia B. Grigoryev
Play-by-Play	370	(2)
David A. Snyder
The Time Line Tape Technique	372	(3)
Jo Ann L. Cook
Terminations Utilizing Metaphor	375	(8)
Teresa A. Glatthorn
The Feelings Center	383	(5)
Helen E. Benedict
The Disposable Camera Technique	388	(3)
Jo Ann L. Cook
Use of Animals in a Play Therapy Setting	391	(3)
S. Eileen Theiss
The Popcorn Walk	394	(4)
Allan Gonsher
Co-Play Therapy	398
Ann C. Levinger