The Therapeutic Powers of Play: 20 Core Agents of Change Paperback / softback - 2013 - 2nd Edition
by Charles E. Schaefer
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- Title The Therapeutic Powers of Play: 20 Core Agents of Change
- Author Charles E. Schaefer
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition number 2nd
- Edition 2
- Condition New
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley
- Date 2013-09-16
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9781118336878
- ISBN 9781118336878 / 1118336879
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.9 x 7 x 1 in (25.15 x 17.78 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Play therapy, Play therapy - Methodology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013007485
- Dewey Decimal Code 618.928
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From the rear cover
"Focusing on the specific ingredients that activate clinical change, this book is enhanced by current research, more ample scope, and an array of contributions in contemporary and relevant topic areas. It is full of inspiration, direction, and grounding. This is a stunning contribution to the field of child therapy."
--Eliana Gil, PhD, Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education
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.
