Psychodrama, though more commonly used with adults in role play, has its genesis in the play of children. In this volume, Bernadette Hoey explains how its techniques can be safely used in working with the child who has been badly traumatized. Children encountering therapy are often wary. By playing as an equal, but also as an adult responsive to the healing qualities of play, the therapist permits the balance of power to shift unobtrusively backwards and forwards with the child, whilst respecting the boundaries the child may wish to keep. Thus sometimes the therapist calls the tune of the...
Psychodrama, though more commonly used with adults in role play, has its genesis in the play of children. In this volume, Bernadette Hoey explains how...
