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.

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

Drawing on psychodynamic, systemic and attachment theory, the book provides an integrated theory base for using play in therapeutic work with children. It emphasizes non-directive approaches to therapeutic play and play therapy, based on supporting the child s developing self within the safe boundaries...