The therapeutic powers of play : 20 core agents of change / Charles E. Schaefer, Athena A. Drewes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Introduction : how play therapy causes therapeutic change / Athena A. Drewes and Charles E. Schaefer -- Part I. Facilitates communication -- Self-expression / Mary Morrison Bennett and Stephanie Eberts -- Access to the unconscious / David Crenshaw and Kathleen Tillman -- Direct teaching / Theresa Fraser-- Indirect teaching / Aideen Taylor de Faoite -- Part II. Fosters emotional wellness -- Catharsis / Athena A. Drewes and Charles E. Schaefer -- Abreaction / Eileen Prendiville -- Positive emotions / Terry Kottman -- Counterconditioning fears / Tammi Van Hollander-- Stress innoculation / Angela M. Cavett -- Stress management / Kristin S. Bemis -- Part III. Enhances social relationships -- Therapeutic relationship / Anne L. Stewart and Lennis G. Echterling -- Attachment / William F. Whelan and Anne L. Stewart -- Social competence / Julie Blundon Nash -- Empathy / Richard Gaskill -- Part IV. Increases personal strengths -- Creating problem solving / Sandra W. Russ and Claire E. Wallace -- Resiliency / John Seymour -- Moral development / Jill Packman -- Accelerated psychological development / Siobh{u3861}n Prendiville -- Self-regulation / Marcie Yeager and Daniel Yeager -- Self-esteem / Diane Frey -- Author index -- Subject index.

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.-- Publisher website.