The Therapeutic Powers of Play: 20 Core Agents of Change

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John Wiley & Sons, Aug 14, 2013 - Psychology - 368 pages

A practical look at how play therapy can promote mental health wellness in children and adolescents

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.

 

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Contents

Introduction How Play Therapy Causes
References
Direct Teaching
Clinical Applications andVignettes
Indirect Teaching
Fosters EmotionalWellness
Abreaction
Positive Emotions
Strategies and Techniques
Social Competence
Empathy
Increases Personal Strengths
Resiliency
Moral Development
Introduction
References

Counterconditioning Fears
Stress Inoculation
Stress Management
Enhances Social Relationships
Attachment
SelfEsteem
Author Index
Subject Index
Copyright

Other editions - View all

The Therapeutic Powers of Play
Charles E. Schaefer
Snippet view - 1993
The Therapeutic Powers of Play
Charles E. Schaefer
No preview available - 1993

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About the author (2013)

CHARLES E. SCHAEFER, PhD, RPT-S, is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. Dr. Schaefer has written or edited over fifty-five professional books, many on the topic of play therapy. He cofounded the Association for Play Therapy in 1982, which currently has over 6,000 members, and now serves as Director Emeritus for the organization.

ATHENA A. DREWES, PsyD, MA, RPT-S, is the Director of Clinical Training and the APA-Accredited Internship at Astor Services for Children & Families, a multiservice nonprofit agency in New York. She is past director of the Association for Play Therapy and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Play Therapy.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Therapeutic Powers of Play: 20 Core Agents of Change
AuthorsCharles E. Schaefer, Athena A. Drewes
Editionrevised
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013
ISBN1118416589, 9781118416587
Length368 pages
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Psychology / General
Psychology / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent
  
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