A guide to child therapy : let's play / by Max Price and Geri Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, B. Max, 1937-

Contributor:

Price, Geri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Play therapy.

Physical Description:

xii, 333 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Northvale, N.J. : J. Aronson, [2001]

Summary:

This is a practical handbook for therapists working with children, drawing on the authors' twenty-five years of experience in practice and teaching. It contains clear instructions for the beginning therapist who wants to know how to use play to diagnose and treat children suffering from depression, behavior problems, separation, and loss.

Contents:

1 Let the Play Begin: Conducting a Play Therapy Session 3

2 Diagnostic Play: Assessing the Child's Needs, Developmental Level, and Core Conflicts 19

3 Starting Points: Basic Assumptions, Uses of Play in Therapy, Characteristics of an Effective Play Therapist 37

4 What About Theory?: The Necessity of Theoretical Orientation, Theory Applied 51

Part II Tools of the Trade

5 Basic Play Therapy Materials Descriptions and Uses 65

6 Therapeutic Storytelling Mutual Storytelling Technique and Different Variations 87

Part III Specific Problems

7 Treatment of Anxiety and Depression 119

8 Treatment of Behavior Problems 141

9 Play Therapy Applied to Separation and Loss: Divorce, Absentee Parent, Death, Adoption, Foster Care 173

10 Play Therapy Applied to Trauma and Illness: Violence, Natural Disasters, Illness 213

Part IV Behavior Therapy

11 Managing Difficult Behavior in the Office, School and Community: Description and Intervention 249

12 Parent Consultation: for Managing Behavior Problems Principles, Model, and Example 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320) and index.

ISBN:

0765703211

OCLC:

46449228