School-Based Play Therapy, 2nd Edition

by Editor: Athena A. Drewes (Astor Home for Children, Poughkeepsie, NY); Editor: Charles E. Schaefer (Farleigh Dickinson University, NJ)

• ISBN13: 9780470555316
• ISBN10: 0470555319
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The fully updated and revised Second Edition presents an A-to-Z guide for using play therapy in preschool and elementary school settings. This comprehensive reference covers why and how to implement a play therapy program in school settings; play-based prevention programs; individual play therapy approaches as well as group play; and play therapy with special populations. Co-edited by proven authors and acknowledged experts in the field, School-Based Play Therapy offers school counselors, psychologists, social workers, and teachers the latest techniques to develop their own creative approaches to utilizing the therapeutic powers of play.

Table of Contents

Preface

Contributors

Play Therapy: Its Therapeutic Power and Research Effects

The Therapeutic Powers of Play and Play Therapy

Meeting the Early Mental Health Needs of Children Through School-Based Play Therapy: A Review of Outcome Research

Implementing Play Therapy in the Schools

Guidelines for Incorporating Play Therapy in the Schools

Challenges and Barriers to Implementing Play Therapy in Schools

Play-Based Assessments

Using Play Therapy Assessment in an Elementary and Intermediate School Setting

Transdisciplinary Play-based Assessment and Intervention in the Primary Years

Play-Based Prevention Programs with Paraprofessionals and Teachers

Helping Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers Foster Play in the Classroom

Primary Project: An Evidenced Based Approach

Child Teacher Relationship Training: Using the Power of the Child-Teacher Relationship as a School-Based Mental Health Intervention

Treating Disruptive Classroom Behaviors of Preschoolers Through Teacher-Child Interaction Therapy

Individual and Group Play Therapy Approaches

LEGO®-Based Play Therapy for Autistic Spectrum Children

Trauma-Focused Group Play Therapy in the Schools

Group Sandplay in Elementary Schools

Play Therapy for Anger Management in the Schools

Group Play Interventions for Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Special Populations and Special Issues

Play Therapy for Children of Alcoholics

Understanding and Generalizing Communication Patterns in Children with Selective Mutism

Play, Create, Express, Understand: Bereavement Groups in Schools

Redrawing the Front Line: A Play Therapy Service for Meeting the Psychosocial Needs of Children and Families in School

The Nana's Model: School-Based Play Therapy with Children who are Homeless or Severely Impoverished

Better Playtimes: A School-Based Therapeutic Play Intervention for Staff and Children

Author Index

Subject Index

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