Category: Psych: Play Therapy

Gravity and the Creation of Self explores how physical structures that children create in play reflect their own inner emotional landscape. Elizabeth Burford focuses on these physical expressions of the internal processesand their application in psychotherapy, with particular reference to the pioneering work of the child psychotherapist Margaret Lowenfield. Lowenfield developed two techniques suitable for working with children: the World technique, where children use sand trays and miscellaneous objects to build their own environments, and the Mosaic technique, in which multi-coloured shapes a...
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Mindfulness-Based Play-Family Therapy: Theory and Practice

By: Higgins-Klein, Dottie

Price: $22.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : September 2013

Seller ID: 84737

ISBN-13: 9780393708639

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for helping children through play therapy within the context of the family and incorporating ideas from the practice of mindfulness. This experience-based therapeutic model respectfully derives from the best roots of traditional family therapy and play therapy modalities. Additionally, it draws from child development theory, interpersonal neurobiology, and mindfulness. Either spontaneous play or directed play can be used according to the need.
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Play Diagnosis and Assessment

Price: $29.99

Publisher: Wiley : March 2000

Seller ID: 467135

ISBN-13: 9780471254577

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The leading resource on identifying children's problems throughplay therapy--completely revised The first edition of PlayDiagnosis and Assessment was the first volume of its kind toprovide a comprehensive overview of the diagnosis and assessment ofchildren through play. Over the past several years, numerouschanges within the field have encouraged the development ofimproved techniques that surpass traditional assessment protocolsand methods, such as new scales, more focused procedures, andinstruments with higher levels of reliability and validity thanhave been previously established. Now, this ...
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Playing and Reality (Routledge Classics)

By: Winnicott, D. W.

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Routledge : November 2005

Seller ID: 471177

ISBN-13: 9780415345460

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that surround the fundamental issue of the individual self and its relationship with the outside world. In this landmark book of twentieth-century psychology, Winnicott shows the reader how, through the attentive nurturing of creativity from the earliest years, every individual has the opportunity to enjoy a rich and rewarding cultural life. Today, as the 'hothousing' and testing of children begins at an ever-...
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Storytelling and Other Activities for Children in Therapy

By: Slivinske, Johanna, Slivinske, Lee

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Wiley : April 2011

Seller ID: 39849

ISBN-13: 9780470919989

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A comprehensive collection of hundreds of thought-provoking stories and activities for use in the treatment of children confronting difficult situations Storytelling and Other Activities for Children in Therapy provides professionals with the knowledge, insight, and tools to help children (ages 6 to 12) and their families work through their treatment issues using storytelling and other activities. This invaluable guide includes helpful activity sheets that gradually progress through four levels of inquiry, representing readiness for self-disclosure. Imaginative and easy-to-use, the stories and...
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Category: Psych: Play Therapy

Child Play: Its Importance for Human Development

Feelings Are Real

Gravity And The Creation Of Self: An Exploration of Self-Representations Using Spatial Concepts

Mindfulness-Based Play-Family Therapy: Theory and Practice

Play Diagnosis and Assessment

Playing and Reality (Routledge Classics)

Storytelling and Other Activities for Children in Therapy

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