The therapeutic powers of play : 20 core agents of change /
Schaefer, Charles E.
The therapeutic powers of play : 20 core agents of change / Charles E. Schaefer, Athena A. Drewes. - Second edition. - xxiii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Introduction : how play therapy causes therapeutic change / Self-expression / Access to the unconscious / Direct teaching / Indirect teaching / Catharsis / Abreaction / Positive emotions / Counterconditioning fears / Stress innoculation / Stress management / Therapeutic relationship / Attachment / Social competence / Empathy / Creating problem solving / Resiliency / Moral development / Accelerated psychological development / Self-regulation / Self-esteem / Author index -- Subject index. Athena A. Drewes and Charles E. Schaefer -- Mary Morrison Bennett and Stephanie Eberts -- David Crenshaw and Kathleen Tillman -- Theresa Fraser-- Aideen Taylor de Faoite -- Athena A. Drewes and Charles E. Schaefer -- Eileen Prendiville -- Terry Kottman -- Tammi Van Hollander-- Angela M. Cavett -- Kristin S. Bemis -- Anne L. Stewart and Lennis G. Echterling -- William F. Whelan and Anne L. Stewart -- Julie Blundon Nash -- Richard Gaskill -- Sandra W. Russ and Claire E. Wallace -- John Seymour -- Jill Packman -- Siobhn Prendiville -- Marcie Yeager and Daniel Yeager -- Diane Frey -- Part I. Facilitates communication -- Part II. Fosters emotional wellness -- Part III. Enhances social relationships -- Part IV. Increases personal strengths --
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.--
9781118336878 (paperback.) RM178.67 1118336879 (paperback.)
Play therapy.
Play therapy--Methodology.
The therapeutic powers of play : 20 core agents of change / Charles E. Schaefer, Athena A. Drewes. - Second edition. - xxiii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Introduction : how play therapy causes therapeutic change / Self-expression / Access to the unconscious / Direct teaching / Indirect teaching / Catharsis / Abreaction / Positive emotions / Counterconditioning fears / Stress innoculation / Stress management / Therapeutic relationship / Attachment / Social competence / Empathy / Creating problem solving / Resiliency / Moral development / Accelerated psychological development / Self-regulation / Self-esteem / Author index -- Subject index. Athena A. Drewes and Charles E. Schaefer -- Mary Morrison Bennett and Stephanie Eberts -- David Crenshaw and Kathleen Tillman -- Theresa Fraser-- Aideen Taylor de Faoite -- Athena A. Drewes and Charles E. Schaefer -- Eileen Prendiville -- Terry Kottman -- Tammi Van Hollander-- Angela M. Cavett -- Kristin S. Bemis -- Anne L. Stewart and Lennis G. Echterling -- William F. Whelan and Anne L. Stewart -- Julie Blundon Nash -- Richard Gaskill -- Sandra W. Russ and Claire E. Wallace -- John Seymour -- Jill Packman -- Siobhn Prendiville -- Marcie Yeager and Daniel Yeager -- Diane Frey -- Part I. Facilitates communication -- Part II. Fosters emotional wellness -- Part III. Enhances social relationships -- Part IV. Increases personal strengths --
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.--
9781118336878 (paperback.) RM178.67 1118336879 (paperback.)
Play therapy.
Play therapy--Methodology.