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

by Landreth, Garry L.; Homeyer, Linda

• ISBN13: 9781568214825
• ISBN10: 1568214820
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

This is an easy-to-use reference to the most effective play therapy techniques and their substantiated results. Play therapy is not an approach based on guess, trial and error, or whims of the therapist at the moment. It is a well-thought-out, philosophically conceived, developmentally based, and research-supported method of helping children cope with and overcome the problems they experience in the process of living their lives.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xii
Abuse and Neglect	1	(14)
Processing Physical and Emotional Abuse through Puppet Play	2	(3)
Overcoming the Effects of Severe Deprivation, Dehydration, and Coma through Play Therapy	5	(2)
Play Therapy and Disclosure of Abuse	7	(2)
The Impact of Play Therapy on Self-Concept and Self-Mastery in Sexually Abused Children	9	(3)
Play Therapy with a Severely Neglected Emotionally Abused Child	12	(3)
Aggression and Acting Out	15	(26)
Play Therapy with an Aggressive Child	16	(3)
Play Therapy and Video Feedback of Play Sessions with Oppositional Disordered Children	19	(3)
Play Therapy as an Intervention for Acting-Out Children	22	(3)
A Group Play Technique for Rewarding Social Responsibility	25	(3)
Play Group Counseling as an Effective Intervention for Children with Behavior Problems	28	(2)
Brief Play Therapy for a Preschooler with Severe Temper Tantrums	30	(3)
Play Therapy for the Institutionalized Child	33	(2)
Play Therapy for Behavior Problems Centered around Issues of Anger, Fear, and Control	35	(3)
Psychoanalytic Play Therapy with an Acting-Out Child	38	(3)
Attachment Difficulties	41	(8)
Child-Centered Play Therapy for Problems Associated with Attachment	42	(3)
Cognitive, Reflective, and Psychodynamic Play Therapy Techniques for Promoting the Attachment Process in an Adopted Boy	45	(4)
Autism	49	(6)
Psychodynamic Play Therapy with a High-Functioning Autistic Child	50	(3)
Treating Autism with Psychoanalytic Play Therapy	53	(2)
Burn Victims	55	(6)
Multimodal Treatment of a Burned Child	56	(2)
Development of a Preoperative Play Program for Burned Children	58	(3)
Chronic Illness	61	(8)
Play Therapy with an Asthmatic Child	62	(3)
Filial Therapy with Parents of Chronically Ill Children	65	(4)
Deaf and Physically Challenged Children	69	(10)
Sand Play with Hyperkinetic, Epileptic Children	71	(2)
Play Therapy with Preschool Deaf Children	73	(2)
Treating a Deaf Child with Play Therapy	75	(4)
Dissociation and Schizophrenia	79	(14)
Jungian Play Therapy with a Schizophrenic Boy	81	(3)
Play Therapy with a Dissociative Child	84	(3)
Play Therapy with a Regressed Schizophrenic Adolescent Girl	87	(3)
Group Play Therapy with Psychotic Adolescent Girls	90	(3)
Emotionally Disturbed Children	93	(8)
Developmental Play Group Counseling with Emotionally Disturbed Children	94	(2)
Play Therapy Treatment of Emotional Disturbance and Trichotillomania in a Child with Mild Microcephaly	96	(2)
Group Play Therapy with Emotionally Disturbed Children	98	(3)
Enuresis and Encopresis Problems	101	(10)
Play and Drama Therapy for Enuresis and Acting-Out Behaviors	102	(3)
Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy in the Treatment of Encopresis	105	(3)
Psychodynamic Play Therapy with an Encopretic Child	108	(3)
Fear and Anxiety	111	(24)
Extreme Anxiety in a Primary-Grade Child	112	(2)
Play Therapy with a Child Who Had Pulled Out All of Her Hair	114	(2)
Use of Structured Play to Discover the Cause of the Fear of Being Kidnapped	116	(3)
Home Play Therapy and Toilet Training	119	(3)
Brief Play Therapy for Stammering	122	(3)
Brief Play Therapy: Pinocchio and School Phobia	125	(2)
Focused Play to Resolve Separation Anxiety	127	(3)
A Behavioral Approach Using Play Therapy to Change the Interaction Pattern between Mother and Daughter	130	(3)
The 'Squiggle' Drawing Used to Overcome Anxiety in a New Client	133	(2)
Grief	135	(10)
Sandplay Therapy with a Grieving Child	136	(3)
Puppets in the Treatment of Traumatic Grief	139	(2)
Group Play Therapy with Bereaved Children	141	(2)
Child-Centered Play Therapy with a Grieving Child	143	(2)
Hospitalization	145	(22)
Therapeutic Play with a Hospitalized 5-Year-Old Boy	146	(2)
Treating Hospital Fear Reactions with Play Therapy	148	(3)
Brief Puppet Therapy for Children Facing Cardiac Catheterization	151	(2)
The Effects of Play Therapy on Hospitalized Children	153	(3)
Helping Young Children Master Intrusive Procedures through Play	156	(2)
Therapeutic Play for Anxiety Issues	158	(2)
Treatment of Hospitalized Children for Acute Illness	160	(3)
Play Therapy in a Pediatric Hospital Department	163	(4)
Learning-Disabled Children	167	(4)
Play Therapy for Children with Learning Disabilities	168	(3)
Mentally Challenged (Handicapped)	171	(8)
Group Play Therapy with Mentally Challenged Children	172	(2)
The Effect of Play Therapy on IQ and Emotional and Social Development of Mentally Challenged Children	174	(3)
Play Therapy with Mentally Challenged Institutionalized Children	177	(2)
Reading Difficulties	179	(10)
Teacher Use of Play Therapy Procedures for Poor Readers	180	(3)
Brief Client-Centered Play Therapy to Increase Reading Skills	183	(2)
Play Therapy as an Intervention for a Reading Problem	185	(4)
Selective Mutism	189	(10)
Nondirective Play Therapy with an Elective Mute Child	191	(2)
Individual and Sibling Group Play Therapy with a Selective Mute Child	193	(2)
Psychoanalytic Play Therapy with an Elective Mute Child	195	(4)
Self-Concept and Self-Esteem	199	(14)
Play Therapy Increases the Self-Concept of Poor Readers	201	(2)
Filial Therapy as an Effective Intervention for Increasing Children's Self-Concept	203	(3)
Activity Play Therapy to Increase Elementary Students' Self-Concept	206	(2)
Child-Centered Group Play Therapy as an Intervention to Increase Sociometric Status and Self-Concept	208	(2)
Filial Therapy as a Treatment Modality to Improve Parent-Child Relations and Increase Self-Esteem in Young Children of Incarcerated Fathers	210	(3)
Social Adjustment Problems	213	(14)
Group Play Therapy as an Intervention for Children with Peer and Sibling Relationship Problems	214	(2)
Self-Directive Play Therapy as a Treatment for Socially Immature Kindergarten Children	216	(2)
Play Therapy for Children with School Adjustment Problems	218	(3)
Group Play Therapy as an Intervention Modality for Modifying the Social Adjustment of Primary-Grade Boys	221	(3)
Development of Self-Control in Bilingual Children through Group Play Therapy	224	(3)
Speech Difficulties	227	(14)
Nondirective Group Play Therapy to Facilitate Speech and Language Development in Preschool Children	228	(2)
Treatment of Emotionally Based Delayed Speech with Play Therapy	230	(2)
Play Therapy Intervention for Regression of Speech in a Young Child	232	(3)
Theraplay with Articulation Disorders	235	(2)
Group Play Therapy to Improve Speech, Social Skills, Personality Attributes, and Intelligence	237	(4)
Traumatization	241	(18)
Sand Play as an Intervention for a Child Whose Family Situation Changed Dramatically	243	(2)
Child-Centered Play Therapy with a Neglected Child Traumatized by Hospitalization	245	(3)
Intensive Play Therapy with Child Witnesses of Domestic Violence	248	(2)
Psychoanalytic Play Therapy with a Child Suffering from Traumatic Neurosis	250	(3)
Racial Differences Cause Extreme Rejection in Play Therapy: An Issue for Therapist and Child	253	(3)
Traumatic Birth Symbolized in Play Therapy	256	(3)
Withdrawn Children	259	(1)
Child-Centered Play Therapy with an Extremely Withdrawn Boy	260	(2)
Use of Operant Conditioning in Nondirective Group Play Therapy with Withdrawn Third-Grade Boys	262	(3)
Teachers Providing Play Therapy for Withdrawn Students	265	(2)
Behavioral Learning Theory Applied to Play Therapy as an Intervention with a Withdrawn, Noneating Child	267	(3)
Child-Centered Play Therapy with a Withdrawn Child	270