School-based play therapy / edited by Athena A. Drewes, Charles E. Schaefer.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The therapeutic powers of play and play therapy / Charles E. Schafer and Athena A. Drewes -- Meeting the early mental health needs of children through school-based play therapy : a review of outcome research / Sue C. Bratton -- Guidelines for incorporating play therapy in schools / Kristi Perryman and Judy Doran -- Challenges and barriers to implementing play therapy in schools / Dee C. Ray -- Using play therapy assessment in an elementary and intermediate school setting / Mary May Schmidt -- Transdisciplinary play-based assessment and intervention in the primary years / Toni Linder and Brittney Bixby -- Helping preschool and kindergarten teachers foster play in the classroom / Karen Stagnitti -- Primary project : an evidence-based approach / Mary Anne Peabody, Deborah Johnson, and A. Dirk Hightower -- Child-teacher relationship training : using the power of the child-teacher relationship as a school-based mental health intervention / Mary O. Morrison and Wendy Pretz Helker -- Treating disruptive classroom behaviors of preschoolers through teacher-child interaction therapy / David McIntosh -- LEGO®-based therapy for autistic spectrum children / Daniel B. LeGoff, G.W. Krauss, and Sarah Allen Levin -- Trauma-focused group play therapy in the schools / Yih-Jiun Shen -- Group sandplay in elementary schools / Theresa Kestly -- Play therapy for anger management in the schools / Barbara A. Fischetti -- Group play interventions for children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder / Linda A. Reddy -- Play therapy for children of alcoholics / Laura Jacobus-Kantor and James G. Emshoff -- Understanding and generalizing communication patterns in children with selective mutism / Laurie Zelinger -- Play, create, express, understand : bereavement groups in schools / Ruthellen Griffin -- Redrawing the front line : a play therapy service for meeting the psychosocial needs of children and families in school / Geraldine Thomas -- The nana's model : school-based play therapy with children who are homeless or severely impoverished / Ana Maria Sutton -- Better playtimes : a school-based therapeutic play intervention for staff and children.

The fully updated and revised Second Edition presents an A-to-Z guide for using play therapy in preschool and elementary school settings. This comprehensive reference covers why and how to implement a play therapy program in school settings; play-based prevention programs; individual play therapy approaches as well as group play; and play therapy with special populations. Co-edited by proven authors and acknowledged experts in the field, School-Based Play Therapy offers school counselors, psychologists, social workers, and teachers the latest techniques to develop their own creative approaches.

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