Play Therapy Today

Contemporary Practice with Individuals, Groups and Carers

Eileen Prendiville, Justine Howard, Eileen Prendiville, Justine Howard

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780415855051
• eBook ISBN: 9781135009045
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

Play Therapy Today brings together the work of renowned practitioners and academics currently working and researching in therapeutic play and play therapy, and presents a range of ground-breaking methods for practising with groups, individuals, and parents and carers.

Providing an overview of new or revitalised topics in play therapy, each chapter presents the relevant theoretical underpinnings and principles of practice, a guide to implementing the method and case study vignettes of the approach in practice. The three sections include chapters on:

• the Therapeutic Touchstone model and the development of the therapeutic relationship, an overview of the use of individual play therapy techniques with children in a hospital setting, and an overview of Yasenik and Gardner's Play Therapy Dimensions Model with an in-depth exploration of the dimension of consciousness from both a theoretical and practical, play-based orientation.
• Jennings' Embodiment-Project-Role model and its implementation in group work, the practical use of puppets in educational and therapeutic settings, the therapeutic value of working with groups in the outdoors, and the use of play in groups for children with a variety of sensory, intellectual and physical disabilities.
• Stagnitti's adaptation of the 'Learn to Play' programme for parent/carer use, Group Theraplay with peer groups and parent/child dyads and how a neurosequential approach supports case conceptualization and play therapy practice with families.

The book provides practitioners with up-to-date, effective and practical techniques that they can put into immediate use in their clinical work with children and their families. It is an important resource for trainee, newly qualified and seasoned play therapists, play therapy supervisors and trainers. It will also be of interest to social workers, teachers, psychologists, child psychotherapists and other health professionals.

Index

• Page numbers in bold indicate tables and in italic indicate figures.
• absorption in play 115–16
• abuse: physical 66, 83, 182
  • puppets 104
  • sexual 66, 83, 182see also domestic violence
  see also neglect
• Achenbach Child Behaviour Scale 170
• acting-out behaviour 183
• activities: distraction 55–8
  • domestic violence interventions 69–70
  • Group Theraplay 170–1, 172–3
  • NDP/EPR groupwork 91–4
  • outdoor play 119–26
  • post-procedural play 58–9
  • special dreams 55, 56 , 57 see also puppets
  see also stories
• adjustment issues, and touchstone stories 13–15
• affective dysregulation, and puppets 106–7
• affect regulation 137, 166
• aggression: and puppets 99–100, 109
  • and Theraplay 165, 169, 171
  • and touch 167
• Ainsworth, M. 150
• alcohol related neurobehavioural disorder 179–80
• amygdala 39, 166, 181
• anxiety 40, 83
  • and hospitals 47–8, 52, 55, 61
  • and puppets 99–100
  • and touchstone stories 9, 11
• ASD see autism spectrum disorder (ASD) attachment; 114, 150–1 see and the brain; 166, 180, 181 see and NDP/EPR; 82, ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures and tables
• Contributor biographies
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Section I Using play therapeutically with individual clients
• Section II Using play therapeutically with groups
• Section III Using play therapeutically with parents and carers
• Index