Essential Play Therapy Techniques: Time-Tested Approaches By Charles E. Schaefer and Donna Cangelosi This book presents 58 play therapy techniques that draw from multiple theoretical orientations. Each chapter includes a historical perspective, a rationale explaining its therapeutic power, a review of the empirical findings, and an overview of its application to specific childhood difficulties and [...]

Play Therapy for Very Young Children Edited by Charles E. Schaefer, Sophronia Kelly-Zion, Judith McCormick, Akiko Ohnogi This book’s focus is on the clinical practice of play therapy with very young children and their families. The reader is provided a compilation of therapeutic approaches, with an emphasis on the vital importance of early intervention, especially [...]

Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive Nondirective Approaches By Eliana Gil Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family therapy. Eliana Gil demonstrates how to tailor treatment to the needs of each child by using both [...]

Working with Children with Sexual Behavior Problems By Eliana Gil & Jennifer A. Shaw This book provides guidance and practical tools when working with children with sexual behavior problems and their families. The authors explain the many possible causes of sexual behavior problems and offer treatment techniques when working 4- to 11-year-olds and their families. [...]

Play Therapy with Traumatized Children: A Prescriptive Approach By Paris Goodyear-Brown This book takes the therapist on a journey from the beginning to the end when working with children who have experienced trauma. The author introduces the model, Flexibly Sequential Play Therapy (FSPT), which integrates non-directive play therapy and directive approaches, as well as, to [...]

Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children Book Study, 2nd Edition By Cathy A. Malchiodi The book demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children’s emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Throughout the book, experienced practitioners from the fields of creative arts therapies and play therapy explain and demonstrate action-oriented, creative interventions grounded in sensory-based neurobiology-informed [...]

Hidden Treasure: A Map to the Child’s Inner Self By Violet Oaklander This book is a follow up to Oaklander's bestselling book, Windows to Our Children. It offers the reader a variety of creative, expressive and projective techniques to help children discover their true inner selves, with Gestalt Therapy, theory, philosophy and practice as the underlying framework. The play-based [...]

The Healing Power of Play: Working with Abused Children By Eliana Gil This book describes how therapists can both facilitate constructive play therapy and intervene in posttraumatic play to help children who have been traumatized by abuse or neglect achieve a positive resolution. Traditional techniques of play therapy are reviewed for their application to this [...]

Participants will: Learn the neurobiology of play experiences and how to apply in a clinical setting. Gain an understanding of the importance of play and the benefits of play interventions to achieve attunement, neural integration, healthy attachment and the development of resilience and well-being. Explore specific topics about play including the therapeutic playroom, the collaborative [...]

Integrating Extremes: Aggression and Death in the Playroom By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S Play therapy can do more than we thought. Much more. Integrating Extremes: Aggression and Death in the Playroom offers a new perspective on working with kids. Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S, provides therapists and other professionals who work with kids a science-based process [...]