Infant Play Therapy: Foundations, Models, Programs, and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138613300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.

Janet A. Courtney

Opis

Infant Play Therapy is a groundbreaking resource for practitioners interested in the varied play therapy theories, models, and programs available for the unique developmental needs of infants and children under the age of three.

Spis treści

PART I. 1. Conceptualizing Infant Play Therapy in the Context of Infant Mental Health Janet A. Courtney 2. The Impact of Play on the Developing Social Brain: New Insights from the Neurobiology of Touch Emily Jackson and Francis McGlone 3. Neurosensory Play in the Infant-Parent Dyad: An Infant Play Therapy Model Ken Schwartzenberger PART II. 4. Playability: Observing, Engaging, and Sequencing Play Skills for Very Young Children. Judi Parsons, Karen Stagnitti, Bridget Dooley, and Kate Renshaw 5. Trauma Informed Infant Mental Health Assessment Eva Nowakowski-Sims and Danna Powers PART III. 6. FirstPlay® Therapy Strengthens the Attachment Relationship Between a Mother with Perinatal Depression and her Infant Karen Baldwin, Meyleen Velasquez and Janet A. Courtney 7. Infant Filial Therapy – From Conception to Early Years: Clinical considerations for working with whole family systems. Kate Renshaw and Judi Parsons 8. Intervening with Theraplay with a 13-Month old Diagnosed with Medical Complications Hanna Lampi PART IV. 9. Baby Doll Circle Time: Strengthening Attunement, Attachment and Social Play Becky Bailey 10. DIR/Floor Time: A Developmental/Relational Play Therapy Model in the Treatment of Infants and Toddlers Exhibiting the Early Signs of Autism Spectrum Disorder Esther Hess 11. Reflections of Love in the Teacup Preemie Program®: Strengthening the Attachment Relationship through FirstPlay^® Infant Story-Massage Chelsea Johnson PART V. 12. Using the Healing Power of Relationships to Support Change in Young Children Exposed to Trauma: Application of The Child-Parent Psychotherapy Model Harleen Hutchinson 13. Incorporating Play into Child-Parent Psychotherapy as an Intervention with Infants Exposed to Domestic Violence Allison Golden and Veronica Castro 14. Trust Based Relational Intervention with a Two-Year-Old—An adoption Case Montserrat Casado-Kehoe, Casey Call, David Cross, and Henry Milton PART VI. 15. Children Born Opioid-Addicted: Symptoms, Attachment and Play Treatment Athena Drewes 16. Hope after the storm: Addressing the impact of perinatal grief on attachment with rainbow babies through an embodied grief process. Renee Turner and Christina Villarreal-Davis 17. Healing Reactive Attachment Disorder with Young Children through FirstPlay® Kinesthetic Storytelling Janet A. Courtney, Viktoria Bakai Toth, and Carmen Jimenez-Pride

O autorze

Janet A. Courtney, PhD, RPT-S is founder of FirstPlay Therapy® and editor of Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy: An Ethical and Clinical Guide. She is an internationally recognized author and trainer specializing in infant mental health, developmental trauma, therapeutic storytelling and expressive, nature and somatic play therapies.