Play Therapy Interventions with Children's Problems Case Studies with DSM-IV-TR Diagnoses

by Landreth, Garry L.; Ray, Dee C.; Sweeney, Daniel S.; Homeyer, Linda E.; Glover, Geraldine J.

• ISBN13: 9780765703811
• ISBN10: 0765703815
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-30
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

In this easy-to-use reference guide to the most effective play therapy techniques, the authors suggest possible diagnoses and both case study and empirical support for play therapy as the treatment of choice with a wide range of presenting problems. In this expanded and updated edition, the authors broaden their scope while still offering a concise digest of some of the most significant play therapy literature available today for practicing play therapists and researchers.

Author Biography

Daniel S. Sweeney is associate professor and director of the Northwest Center for Play Therapy Studies at George Fox University.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Abuse and Neglect	1	(14)
Processing Physical and Emotional Abuse through Puppet Play	1	(3)
Overcoming the Effects of Severe Deprivation, Dehydration, and Coma through Play Therapy	4	(2)
Play Therapy and Disclosure of Abuse	6	(2)
The Impact of Play Therapy on Self-Concept and Self-Mastery in Sexually Abused Children	8	(3)
Play Therapy with a Severely Neglected, Emotionally Abused Child	11	(4)
Aggression and Acting Out	15	(30)
Play Therapy with an Aggressive Child	15	(3)
Play Therapy and Video Feedback of Play Sessions with Oppositional Disordered Children	18	(2)
Play Therapy as an Intervention for Acting-Out Children	20	(3)
A Group Play Technique for Rewarding Social Responsibility	23	(3)
Play Group Counseling as an Effective Intervention for Children with Behavior Problems	26	(2)
Brief Play Therapy for a Preschooler with Severe Temper Tantrums	28	(2)
Play Therapy for the Institutionalized Child	30	(2)
Play Therapy for Behavior Problems Centered around Issues of Anger, Fear, and Control	32	(3)
Psychoanalytic Play Therapy with an Acting-Out Child	35	(2)
Play Therapy with Conduct-Disordered Children	37	(2)
Effect of Play Therapy on Withdrawn and Aggressive Behavior	39	(2)
Effectiveness of Individual and Group Play Therapy for Kindergartners with Adjustment Problems	41	(4)
Attachment Difficulties	45	(6)
Child-Centered Play Therapy for Problems Associated with Attachment	45	(3)
Cognitive, Reflective, and Psychodynamic Play Therapy Techniques for Promoting the Attachment Process in an Adopted Boy	48	(3)
Autism	51	(6)
Psychodynamic Play Therapy with a High-Functioning Autistic Child	51	(3)
Treating Autism with Psychoanalytic Play Therapy	54	(3)
Burn Victims	57	(6)
Multimodal Treatment of a Burned Child	57	(3)
Development of a Preoperative Play Program for Burned Children	60	(3)
Chronic Illness	63	(6)
Play Therapy with an Asthmatic Child	63	(3)
Individual Play Therapy for Children with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus	66	(3)
Deaf and Physically Challenged Children	69	(6)
Sand Play with Hyperkinetic, Epileptic Children	70	(2)
Play Therapy with Preschool Deaf Children	72	(3)
Dissociation and Schizophrenia	75	(12)
Jungian Play Therapy with a Schizophrenic Boy	76	(2)
Play Therapy with a Dissociative Child	78	(3)
Play Therapy with a Regressed Schizophrenic Adolescent Girl	81	(2)
Group Play Therapy with Psychotic Adolescent Girls	83	(4)
Emotionally Disturbed Children	87	(10)
Developmental Play Group Counseling with Emotionally Disturbed Children	87	(2)
Play Therapy Treatment of Emotional Disturbance and Trichotillomania in a Child with Mild Microcephaly	89	(2)
Group Play Therapy with Emotionally Disturbed Children	91	(3)
Individual Play Therapy with Emotionally Disturbed Children in a School Setting	94	(3)
Enuresis and Encopresis Problems	97	(8)
Play and Drama Therapy for Enuresis and Acting-Out Behaviors	97	(3)
Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy in the Treatment of Encopresis	100	(2)
Psychodynamic Play Therapy with an Encopretic Child	102	(3)
Fear and Anxiety	105	(14)
Extreme Anxiety in a Primary-Grade Child	105	(2)
Play Therapy with a Child Who Had Pulled Out All of Her Hair	107	(2)
Use of Structured Play to Discover the Cause of the Fear of Being Kidnapped	109	(3)
Home Play Therapy and Toilet Training	112	(2)
Brief Play Therapy for Stammering	114	(2)
Focused Play to Resolve Separation Anxiety	116	(3)
Grief	119	(10)
Sand Play Therapy with a Grieving Child	119	(3)
Puppets in the Treatment of Traumatic Grief	122	(2)
Group Play Therapy with Bereaved Children	124	(2)
Child-Centered Play Therapy with a Grieving Child	126	(3)
Hospitalization	129	(18)
Treating Hospital Fear Reactions with Play Therapy	129	(3)
Brief Puppet Therapy for Children Facing Cardiac Catheterization	132	(2)
The Effects of Play Therapy on Hospitalized Children	134	(2)
Helping Young Children Master Intrusive Procedures through Play	136	(2)
Play Therapy in a Pediatric Hospital Department	138	(3)
Puppet Therapy for Children Undergoing Hospital Surgery	141	(2)
Impact of Therapeutic Play on Hospitalized Children	143	(4)
Learning-Disabled Children	147	(8)
Play Therapy for Children with Learning Disabilities	147	(2)
Effectiveness of Self-Directive Play with Educationally Handicapped Children	149	(3)
Play Therapy with Labeled Children in the Schools	152	(3)
Mentally Challenged (Handicapped)	155	(10)
Group Play Therapy with Mentally Challenged Children	155	(2)
The Effect of Play Therapy on IQ and Emotional and Social Development of Mentally Challenged Children	157	(3)
Play Therapy with Mentally Challenged Institutionalized Children	160	(2)
Effects of Directive Versus Nondirective Play Therapy with Mentally Retarded Children	162	(3)
Reading Difficulties	165	(10)
Teacher Use of Play Therapy Procedures for Poor Readers	166	(2)
Brief Client-Centered Play Therapy to Increase Reading Skills	168	(2)
Play Therapy as an Intervention for a Reading Problem	170	(2)
Nondirective Play Therapy with Low Achievers in Reading	172	(3)
Selective Mutism	175	(8)
Nondirective Play Therapy with an Elective Mute Child	176	(2)
Individual and Sibling Group Play Therapy with a Selective Mute Child	178	(2)
Psychoanalytic Play Therapy with an Elective Mute Child	180	(3)
Self-Concept and Self-Esteem	183	(14)
Play Therapy Increases the Self-Concept of Poor Readers	184	(2)
Activity Play Therapy to Increase Elementary Students' Self-Concept	186	(1)
Child-Centered Group Play Therapy as an Intervention to Increase Sociometric Status and Self-Concept	187	(2)
Child-Centered Play Therapy to Increase Self-Efficacy in the Schools	189	(2)
Effects of Intensive Group Play Media on Self-Concepts of Children	191	(2)
Impact of Play Therapy on At-Risk Students in the School	193	(4)
Social Adjustment Problems	197	(16)
Group Play Therapy as an Intervention for Children with Peer and Sibling Relationship Problems	198	(2)
Self-Directive Play Therapy as a Treatment for Socially Immature Kindergarten Children	200	(2)
Play Therapy for Children with School Adjustment Problems	202	(2)
Group Play Therapy as an Intervention Modality for Modifying the Social Adjustment of Primary-Grade Boys	204	(3)
Development of Self-Control in Bilingual Children through Group Play Therapy	207	(1)
Child-Centered Play Therapy for Children with Personal-Social Problems in School	208	(2)
Group Play Therapy with Children Who Are Socially Isolated	210	(3)
Speech Difficulties	213	(14)
Nondirective Group Play Therapy to Facilitate Speech and Language Development in Preschool Children	214	(2)
Play Therapy Intervention for Regression of Speech in a Young Child	216	(3)
Theraplay with Articulation Disorders	219	(2)
Group Play Therapy to Improve Speech, Social Skills, Personality Attributes, and Intelligence	221	(2)
Group Play Therapy for Japanese Children Who Stutter	223	(4)
Traumatization	227	(16)
Child-Centered Play Therapy with a Neglected Child Traumatized by Hospitalization	228	(2)
Intensive Play Therapy with Child Witnesses of Domestic Violence	230	(2)
Psychoanalytic Play Therapy with a Child Suffering from Traumatic Neurosis	232	(3)
Racial Differences Cause Extreme Rejection in Play Therapy: An Issue for Therapist and Child	235	(2)
Group Play Therapy for Preschoolers Exposed to Domestic Violence	237	(3)
Intensive Group Play Therapy with Child Witnesses of Domestic Violence	240	(3)
Withdrawn Children	243	(12)
Child-Centered Play Therapy with an Extremely Withdrawn Boy	244	(2)
The Use of Operant Conditioning in Nondirective Group Play Therapy with Withdrawn Third-Grade Boys	246	(2)
Behavioral Learning Theory Applied to Play Therapy as an Intervention with a Withdrawn, Noneating Child	248	(3)
Child-Centered Play Therapy with a Withdrawn Child	251	(4)
Index	255	(10)
About the Editors	265