Play Therapy with Families: A Collaborative Approach to Healing - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765708086 ISBN 13: 9780765708083

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. (UK), 2013

Synopsis

Play Therapy and Families: A Collaborative Approach to Healing provides a thorough description of play from prominent academics, researchers, and relevant writers who review it historically. It contains a unique approach for helping families, outlining an in-depth review of play and its relevancy to healing for children and families, putting forth a brand new Collaborative Play Therapy Model. The application to healing and psychotherapy follows, outlining the directive and non-directive orientations to healing, models that are current in the literature, and selected family-based play therapy models.

An extensive overview of family therapy and associated models is presented as a foundation for the reader in order to relate play and family therapy from an academic point of view. This provides the theoretical background for the chapters on play therapy approaches that follow. Family play therapy addresses the inclusion of the family with techniques that contribute to healing. Narrative play therapy is presented with an in depth historical account and the phases of the narrative approach. Filial and theraplay models of play therapy are presented with an account of their development and focus on the phases of intervention for children and families. The book concludes with a sandtray approach to working with adoptive families, rounding out this collection’s presentation of current and researched models of play therapy.

About this title

About the Author

Nancy Riedel Bowers, RSW, Rpt-S, PhD, holds positions within the seminary and faculty of social work at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada. Nancy holds the position of APT-continuing education provider and is a registered supervisor with APT and CACPT.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. (UK)
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765708086
• ISBN 13: 9780765708083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Nancy Riedel Bowers