The Handbook of Play Therapy and Therapeutic Play

ISBN-13: 9780415439411 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 296 str.

Linnet McMahon

Opis

This completely revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to using play to communicate with troubled or traumatised children and their families, and to heal emotional damage. The book gives examples of good pratice in different setting and situations.

Spis treści

Introduction: The State of Play.The Development of Play.Approaches to Therapeutic Play.The Process of Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy.Therapeutic Play in the Early Years.Play in Helping Troubled Families.Therapeutic Play for Children with Disabilities and Illness.Therapeutic Play for Children Experiencing Separation, Loss and Bereavement in Their Families.Therapeutic Play with Children who have Experienced Continual Trauma and Loss.Therapeutic Play in Daily Living with Abused and Traumatized Children.Play in Therapeutic Work with Children Moving to New Families.

O autorze

Linnet McMahon is a retired Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Reading, where she tutored and for some years led the MA in Therapeutic Child Care course. She has been a play therapist and supervisor, and now provides training and consultancy in therapeutic work with children.