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Play Therapy in the Outdoors Taking Play Therapy Out of the Playroom and into Natural Environments

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ISBN-10: 1849054088

ISBN-13: 9781849054089

Edition: 2014

Authors: Sara Knight, Alison Chown

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Championing the therapeutic power of nature, this book explores why outdoor play therapy offers children more than being confined to a playroom and how practice can be moved into the natural environment in a safe and ethical way.By using outdoor environments, the traditional dyadic relationship between the therapist and the child becomes a triadic one in which the therapeutic process is enhanced and the environment for the play therapy is shared and therefore more 'democratic'. the child can develop a lifelong therapeutic attachment to the 'nature mother' which supports the development of the body self and a growing recognition of our interdependence with nature. the author explores how…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date: 6/21/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Sara Knight is the course group leader for work-centred learning in the Department of Education at Anglia Ruskin University.nbsp; As such, she oversees the undergraduate degrees awarded to all sectors of the Children's Workforce.nbsp; A former nursery teacher in main stream and special education, she contributed to the development Forest School as an early years intervention across the UK.nbsp; She nbsp;has published several papers and three text books on this subject, and has been a keynote speaker at conferences in the UK, Europe and Canada.