Short-Term Play Therapy for Children - Softcover

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9781606233535: Short-Term Play Therapy for Children

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160623353X ISBN 13: 9781606233535

Publisher: Guilford Press, 2009

This volume presents a variety of play approaches that facilitate children's healing in a shorter time frame. Invaluable for any clinician seeking to optimize limited time with clients, the book provides effective methods for treating children struggling with such challenges as posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, disruptive behavior, mood disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and parental divorce. Individual, family, and group treatment models are described and illustrated with richly detailed case examples. Featuring session-by-session guidelines, chapters demonstrate how to engage clients rapidly, develop appropriate treatment goals, and implement carefully structured brief interventions that yield lasting results.

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Review:

"Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, Second Edition, is the definitive book on the subject. If you are a mental health professional using play therapy with children, you need this book. If you are an elementary school counselor who has limited time, you need this book. If you are a professor teaching a class on advanced play therapy strategies or working with children on a time-limited basis, you need this book. It provides detailed, practical information about applying short-term play therapy with individual clients, families, and groups, with a wide variety of populations and issues." - Terry Kottman, The Encouragement Zone, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA

"Play therapists should be well versed in effective short-term interventions for children for two reasons. First, children simply cannot afford to be in psychological distress for extended periods of time because of the negative impact this can have on their healthy development. Second, because of the financial and time constraints often imposed by third-party payers, the therapist needs to strive to make each session maximally beneficial. This book can be particularly effective in helping graduate students make the transition from traditional models of psychotherapy, which suggest open-ended treatment, to more focused models better suited to the developmental needs of children. It provides all mental health professionals with essential tools and strategies to help children make rapid gains in therapy in our ever more fast-paced world." - Kevin O’Connor, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, USA

"This timely book is full of very helpful and creative play therapy interventions appropriate for short-term work with individuals, families, and groups. The structured, goal-oriented approaches described in the many detailed case examples will be welcomed by practicing clinicians and by professors who teach play therapy in various university settings. By acknowledging the reality of time factors and their impact on the structure of treatment, this book helps guide the field of play therapy in the 21st century." - Nancy Boyd Webb, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, USA

"This is an important resource for those who work with children or are studying to do so. It is practical and full of creative ideas for individual, group, and family interventions." - Doody’s Review Service

About the Author:

Edited by Heidi Gerard Kaduson, PhD, private practice, Monroe Township, NJ, USA, and Charles E. Schaefer, PhD, Department of Psychology, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, USA: both Co-Directors, The Play Therapy Training Institute, Inc., Hightstown, NJ, USA

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