Practical Handbook for Building the Play Therapy Relationship

Name: Practical Handbook for Building the Play Therapy Relationship
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ISBN: 9780765701114

ISBN-10: 0765701111

ISBN-13: 9780765701114

Edition: 1996

Authors: Maria A. Giordano, Garry L. Landreth, Leslie D. Jones, Garry Landreth

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Building a safe, accepting, and freeing relationship with a child in the play therapy experience is considered to be essential by practicing play therapists and all theoretical approaches to play therapy. A Practical Handbook for Building the Play Therapy Relationship is designed for practitioners, students, and play therapy supervisors who want a practical approach for learning or teaching the fundamental skills of building a therapeutic relationship in play therapy. It provides a step-by-step approach from structuring the play therapy session to therapeutic limit setting to termination-closure and involves the reader in learning and applying these key skills in the therapy practice.

Book details

List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/9/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 8.39" wide x 11.12" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English




Child-centered play therapy



Play therapy room the toys



Prior to the first play therapy session



Structuring the play therapy session



Acknowledging non-verbal behavior



Reflecting content



Reflecting feelings



Facilitating decision-making and responsibility



Facilitating esteem-building & encouragement



Setting limits



Understanding therapeutic responses, play behaviors, facilitating healing, and termination



Teaching parents how to help their children develop self-control and self-discipline



Case study : school behavioral issue



Case study : grief, loss, SIDS



Case study : sibling rivalry



Case study : anger and aggression



Case study : divorce



Case study : sexual abuse and trauma



Role-play of skills and feedback format



Video review - identifying and improving therapeutic responses