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:
* Direct teaching
* Indirect teaching
* Self-expression
* Relationship enhancement
* Attachment formation
* Catharsis
* Stress inoculation
* Creative problem solving
* Self-esteem
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.
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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.
Inhalt
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
About the Editors xvii
About the Contributors xix
1 Introduction: How Play Therapy Causes Therapeutic Change 1
Athena A. Drewes and Charles E. Schaefer
Therapeutic Factors 1
Therapeutic Powers of Play 2
How Best to Use the Material in This Book 4
References 6
Part I Facilitates Communication 9
2 Self-Expression 11
Mary Morrison Bennett and Stephanie Eberts
Why Is Self-Expression Therapeutic? 11
Empirical Support of the Power of Self-Expression in Play Therapy 14
Role of Self-Expression in Facilitating Change 15
Strategies and Techniques in Facilitating Self-Expression 16
Applications 21
Clinical Vignettes 21
Summary 23
References 23
3 Access to the Unconscious 25
David Crenshaw and Kathleen Tillman
Introduction 25
The Power of Play Therapy to Access the Unconscious 26
Empirical Support 27
The Role of Accessing the Unconscious in Causing Change 28
Strategies and Techniques 29
Clinical Applications and Clinical Vignettes 33
Summary 36
References 37
4 Direct Teaching 39
Theresa Fraser
Introduction 39
Role of Direct Teaching in Causing Change 40
Strategies and Techniques 42
Empirical Support 43
Clinical Applications 44
Vignette 45
Summary 48
References 48
5 Indirect Teaching 51
Aideen Taylor de Faoite
Introduction 51
Indirect Teaching 52
Empirical Support 53
Role of Indirect Teaching in Causing Change 56
Strategies and Techniques 59
Clinical Applications and Vignettes 61
Conclusion 66
References 67
Part II Fosters Emotional Wellness 69
6 Catharsis 71
Athena A. Drewes and Charles E. Schaefer
Introduction 71
Description of Catharsis 72
Empirical Support 73
Role of Catharsis in Causing Change 74
Clinical Applications 75
Techniques 76
Contraindications 77
Clinical Vignettes 78
References 79
7 Abreaction 83
Eileen Prendiville
Introduction 83
Description of Abreaction 85
Empirical Support 87
Role of Abreaction in Causing Change 89
Strategies and Techniques 92
Clinical Applications and Clinical Vignettes 94
References 98
8 Positive Emotions 103
Terry Kottman
Introduction 103
Description of Positive Emotion 104
Empirical Support 107
Role of Positive Emotion in Causing Change 111
Strategies and Techniques 113
Clinical Applications and Clinical Vignettes 115
References 117
9 Counterconditioning Fears 121
Tammi Van Hollander
Description of Counterconditioning Fears 121
The Role of Counterconditioning Fears in Causing Change 122
Play Strategies and Techniques 122
Empirical Support 124
Clinical Applications 125
Case Vignettes 125
Conclusion 129
References 129
10 Stress Inoculation 131
Angela M. Cavett
Description of Stress Inoculation 131
Empirical Support for Stress Inoculation 133
Role of Stress Inoculation in Causing Change 134
Strategies and Techniques 136
Clinical Vignettes 136
Conclusion 139
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