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"Focusing on the specific ingredients that activate clinical change, this book is enhanced by current research, more ample scope, and an array of contributions in contemporary and relevant topic areas. It is full of inspiration, direction, and grounding. This is a stunning contribution to the field of child therapy."
—Eliana Gil, PhD, Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education
A practical look at how play therapy can promote mental health wellness in children and adolescents
Revised and expanded, The Therapeutic Powers of Play, Second Edition explores the powerful effects that play therapy has on different areas within a child or adolescent's life: communication, emotion regulation, relationship enhancement, and personal strengths. Editors Charles Schaefer and Athena Drewes—renowned experts in the field of play therapy—discuss the different interventions and components of treatment that can move clients to change.
Leading play therapists contributed to this volume, supplying a wide repertoire of practical techniques and applications in each chapter for use in clinical practice, including:
Filled with clinical case vignettes from various theoretical viewpoints, the second edition is an invaluable resource for play and child therapists of all levels of experience and theoretical orientations.
CHARLES E. SCHAEFER, PhD, RPT-S, is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. Dr. Schaefer has written or edited over fifty-five professional books, many on the topic of play therapy. He cofounded the Association for Play Therapy in 1982, which currently has over 6,000 members, and now serves as Director Emeritus for the organization.
ATHENA A. DREWES, PsyD, MA, RPT-S, is the Director of Clinical Training and the APA-Accredited Internship at Astor Services for Children & Families, a multiservice nonprofit agency in New York. She is past director of the Association for Play Therapy and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Play Therapy.
Chapter 1 Introduction: How Play Therapy Causes Therapeutic Change
Athena A. Drewes and Charles Schaefer
Part I Facilitates Communication
Chapter 2 Self-Expression
Mary Morrison Bennett and Stephanie Eberts
Chapter 3 Access To The Unconscious
David Crenshaw and Kathleen Tillman
Chapter 4 Direct Teaching
Theresa Fraser
Chapter 5 Indirect Teaching
Aideen Taylor de Faoite
Part II Fosters Emotional Wellness
Chapter 6 Catharsis
Athena A. Drewes and Charles E. Schaefer
Chapter 7 Abreaction
Eileen Prendiville
Chapter 8 Positive Emotions
Terry Kottman
Chapter 9 Counter-conditioning Fears
Tammi Van Hollander
Chapter 10 Stress Inoculation
Angela M. Cavett
Chapter 11 Stress Management
Kristin S. Bemis
Part III Enhances Social Relationships
Chapter 12 Therapeutic Relationship
Anne L. Stewart and Lennis G. Echterling
Chapter 13 Attachment
William F. Whelan and Anne L. Stewart
Chapter 14 Social Competence
Julie Blundon Nash
Chapter 15 Empathy
Richard Gaskill
Part IV Increases personal strengths
Chapter 16 Creative Problem Solving
Sandra W. Russ and Claire E. Wallace
Chapter 17 Resiliency
John Seymour
Chapter 18 Moral Development
Jill Packman
Chapter 19 Accelerated Psychological Development
Siobhán Prendiville
Chapter 20 Self-Regulation
Marcie Yeager & Daniel Yeager
Chapter 21 Self-Esteem
Diane Frey
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