Trauma and Play Therapy: Helping Children Heal

ISBN-13: 9781138559936 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 236 str.

Paris Goodyear-Brown

Opis

Trauma and Play Therapy synthesizes new developments in the study of children’s trauma recovery to assist clinicians in combining play therapy with other powerful ways of addressing the needs of hurt children.

Spis treści

List of Figures. Foreword, Eliana Gil. Preface. Acknowledgments 1. Titration in Trauma Work: Using the Play Therapist’s Palette 2. The Neurobiology of Trauma and Play: Understanding the Playroom as a Neurochemical Boxing Ring 3. Need Meeting to Enhance Regulation: Feeding, Touch, and Sensory Integration 4. Bigness, Smallness, and Containment: The Use of Space and Presence in Play Therapy 5. Metaphor and Medium 6. Playing the Affective Accordion: Titration in Aspects of Emotional Literacy 7. The Nature of Play 8. Humor, Novelty, and Shared Delight 9. Holding the Hard Story: Narrative Nuance Index.

O autorze

Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S, is the founder and clinical director of Nurture House, a treatment center serving families in middle Tennessee, and the creator of TraumaPlay^TM, a flexibly sequential play therapy model targeted to help children heal from trauma. She is an adjunct instructor of psychiatric mental health at Vanderbilt University, trains and consults for organizations around the world, and is the author of multiple books, chapters, and articles on child therapy, including the Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse and Play Therapy with Traumatized Children: A Prescriptive Approach.