Child Centered Play Therapy, Dr. Van Fleet
How to conduct Child Centered Play therapy including guidelines for setting up a playroom; structuring sessions; understanding and responding empathically to children's play themes, including how to handle challenging behaviors; and collaborating effectively with parents.
Doing Play Therapy: From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change, Terry Kottman and Kristen Meany-Walen
Kottman and Meany-Walen cover the process of therapy from beginning to end including how to identify your theory as a play therapist and fit techniques described in the text into your theory of play therapy. The reader will learn how to build strong relationships with children, exploring clinical issues and underlying dynamics, develop and work toward clear treatment goals, and collaborate with parents and teachers. This text will also help you navigate common challenges and difficult situations in the playroom.
Play Therapy: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice, David Crenshaw and Anne Stewart
A comprehensive guide detailing leading clinical play therapy theories and approaches, explaining the major theoretical frameworks, research, and neuroscience findings. Case illustrations provide clinical applications of theories for children with diagnoses such as attachment issues, rage, bullying, grief, autism spectrum disorder, and trauma.
Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S
Liana's webpage has a library of articles for professionals, articles to assist parents, her workshop schedule (some online), featured techniques, a newsletter, all of her directive play therapy books, and a free e-book.
EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children, Ana Gomez
Provides creative, step-by-step, how-to information about the use of EMDR therapy with children with complex trauma from an internationally known and innovative leader in the field. Explores thoroughly the eight phases of EMDR therapy in helping children with attachment wounds, dissociative tendencies and high dysregulation.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures, Francine Shapiro
This volume provides the definitive guide to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), the psychotherapeutic approach developed by Francine Shapiro.
Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond
The leading text for students and practicing therapists who want to learn the fundamentals of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), this book is eminently practical and authoritative. It demonstrates how to engage patients, develop a sound case conceptualization, plan treatment, and structure sessions effectively. Core cognitive, behavioral, and experiential techniques are explicated and strategies are presented.
How to conduct Child Centered Play therapy including guidelines for setting up a playroom; structuring sessions; understanding and responding empathically to children's play themes, including how to handle challenging behaviors; and collaborating effectively with parents.
Doing Play Therapy: From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change, Terry Kottman and Kristen Meany-Walen
Kottman and Meany-Walen cover the process of therapy from beginning to end including how to identify your theory as a play therapist and fit techniques described in the text into your theory of play therapy. The reader will learn how to build strong relationships with children, exploring clinical issues and underlying dynamics, develop and work toward clear treatment goals, and collaborate with parents and teachers. This text will also help you navigate common challenges and difficult situations in the playroom.
Play Therapy: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice, David Crenshaw and Anne Stewart
A comprehensive guide detailing leading clinical play therapy theories and approaches, explaining the major theoretical frameworks, research, and neuroscience findings. Case illustrations provide clinical applications of theories for children with diagnoses such as attachment issues, rage, bullying, grief, autism spectrum disorder, and trauma.
Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S
Liana's webpage has a library of articles for professionals, articles to assist parents, her workshop schedule (some online), featured techniques, a newsletter, all of her directive play therapy books, and a free e-book.
EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children, Ana Gomez
Provides creative, step-by-step, how-to information about the use of EMDR therapy with children with complex trauma from an internationally known and innovative leader in the field. Explores thoroughly the eight phases of EMDR therapy in helping children with attachment wounds, dissociative tendencies and high dysregulation.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures, Francine Shapiro
This volume provides the definitive guide to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), the psychotherapeutic approach developed by Francine Shapiro.
Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond
The leading text for students and practicing therapists who want to learn the fundamentals of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), this book is eminently practical and authoritative. It demonstrates how to engage patients, develop a sound case conceptualization, plan treatment, and structure sessions effectively. Core cognitive, behavioral, and experiential techniques are explicated and strategies are presented.