Play Therapy with Adolescents

by Loretta Gallo-Lopez

Author	: Loretta Gallo-Lopez
Publisher	: Jason Aronson
Total Pages	: 307
Release	: 2010
Genre	: Adolescent psychotherapy
ISBN	: 0765708027

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Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate. How do mental health professionals get past the facade? Play Therapy with Adolescents is the first book to offer a complete variety of play therapy approaches specifically geared toward adolescents. The chapters, written by experts in the field, offer readers entry into the world of adolescents, showing how to make connections and alliances.

Creative Play Therapy with Adolescents and Adults

by Denis' A. Thomas

Author	: Denis' A. Thomas
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 171
Release	: 2020-04-16
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 0429830270

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This practical, user-friendly manual shows mental health professionals how to implement play therapy with adolescents and adults and how to conceptualize client struggles using a wealth of creative approaches. Creative Play Therapy with Adolescents and Adults follows an accessible seven-stage process for professionals to address clients’ core needs and establish an empathic therapeutic relationship. The book charts the stages of play therapy and explores a range of expressive arts including art, drama, dance, writing and sand play and the key materials needed for each. It also considers additional aspects of play therapy including resistance, spirituality and self-care. Filled with techniques, skills and case studies to help demystify complex client work, the book outlines an easy-to-follow treatment protocol for healing and resolution. This book will be of interest to a wide range of mental health professionals working with adults and adolescents as it encourages a more creative career and lasting, tangible progress in clients.

Integrating Expressive Arts and Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents

by Eric J. Green

Author	: Eric J. Green
Publisher	: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages	: 301
Release	: 2013-10-21
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 1118775619

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Interventions and approaches from the expressive arts and play therapy disciplines Integrating Expressive Arts and Play Therapy With Children and Adolescents presents techniques and approaches from the expressive and play therapy disciplines that enable child and adolescent clinicians to augment their therapeutic toolkit within a competent, research-based practice. With contributions representing a "who's who" in the play therapy and expressive arts therapy worlds, Integrating Expressive Arts and Play Therapy With Children and Adolescents is the definitive bridge between expressive arts and play therapy complementarily utilized with children and adolescents in their healing and creative capacities.

Structured Play-Based Interventions for Engaging Children and Adolescents in Therapy

by Angela M. Cavett, Ph.d.

Author	: Angela M. Cavett, Ph.d.
Publisher	: Infinity Pub
Total Pages	: 176
Release	: 2010-10-01
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 9780741461681

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Structured Play-Based Interventions for Engaging Children and Adolescents in Therapy is a compilation of playful interventions for use by mental health professionals treating children and adolescents with emotional or behavioral problems.

Therapeutic Engagement of Children and Adolescents

by David A. Crenshaw, PhD

Author	: David A. Crenshaw, PhD
Publisher	: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Total Pages	: 175
Release	: 2008-02-28
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 146163203X

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This book addresses the challenges faced when children who refuse to talk, children who lack psychological mindedness, teens who experience a strong aversion to the influence of any adult, and children and teens who mask their woundedness by hostility or diffidence show up for therapy. This book does not push one therapeutical or theoretical approach over another but specifically describes useful tools that can be utilized within a wide range of approaches.

No Talk Therapy for Children and Adolescents

by Martha B Straus

Author	: Martha B Straus
Publisher	: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages	: 272
Release	: 1999-02-02
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 9780393702866

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Weaving practical, hands-on ideas with theory and research about child development, child treatment, and the therapeutic relationship, this book describes an innovative approach to treatment of children and adolescents who won't or can't respond to traditional, conversation-based therapy. For these children, therapists need an entirely new clinical language, one that doesn't depend on words. Within an interpersonal and developmental framework, Straus spells out the deceptively simple goals of no-talk therapy: someone to be close to, and something to be proud of. Through empathy and respect, games, activities, community involvement, a circle of adults, and little pleasures, this approach begins to provide these anxious, sullen, enraged, and confused kids with the self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-awareness to develop a voice of their own.

Play Therapy with Preteens

by Eric Green

Author	: Eric Green
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages	: 212
Release	: 2018-08-15
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 1538108623

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Play Therapy with Preteens presents integrative models of play therapy that incorporate expressive arts and evidence-informed interventions into working with preadolescents. The current research demonstrates treatment efficacy in incorporating creative, dynamic interventions into work with preadolescents and their families. This unique book is written specifically on play therapy with preadolescents, presenting a comprehensive yet practical approach that integrates expressive arts like music, movement, play, sand, and poetry into treatment, along with familial involvement. Contributors cover a multitude of therapy options including: cognitive behavioral; attachment-centered; Alderian; family play; relational transformation; nature-based; and directive. This volume is the perfect companion to beginning and seasoned practitioners.

Starting Treatment With Children and Adolescents

by Steven Tuber

Author	: Steven Tuber
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 464
Release	: 2011-03-07
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 1136884386

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Starting Treatment With Children and Adolescents provides therapists with a time-tested framework for treatment and a moment-by-moment guide to the first few sessions with a new patient. In twelve remarkable case studies, verbatim transcripts of individual play-therapy sessions are brought to life through running commentary on techniques and theory and a fine-grained analysis of what worked, what didn’t, and what else the clinician could have done to make the session as productive as possible. Clinicians will come away from the book with a unique window into how other therapists actually work as well as new tools for engaging children and adolescents in process-oriented treatment. They’ll also be guided through an exploration of common questions such as how else could I have handled that situation? What other paths could I have tried? Where might those other paths have led? What treatment strategies are most advantageous to my patients’ growth – and to my own?

Attachment-Focused Family Play Therapy

by Cathi Spooner

Author	: Cathi Spooner
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 176
Release	: 2020-10-26
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 1317374371

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Attachment-Focused Family Play Therapy presents an essential roadmap for therapists working with traumatized youth. Exploring trauma and attachment through a neurobiological focus, the book lays out a flexible framework for practitioners treating young clients within the context of their family relationships. Chapters demonstrate how techniques of play and expressive therapy can be integrated into work with different developmental stages, while providing the tools needed to fully incorporate the family into the healing process. The book also provides clinical examples and guidance on the ethical decision-making needed to effectively implement attachment work and facilitate positive change. Written in an accessible style, Attachment-Focused Family Play Therapy is an important resource for mental health professionals who work with traumatized children, adolescents, and adults.