Name: Short-Term Play Therapy for Children By Heidi Gerard Kaduson
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Short-Term Play Therapy for Children Summary

Short-Term Play Therapy for Children by Heidi Gerard Kaduson

This volume presents a variety of play approaches that facilitate children's healing in a shorter time frame. Invaluable for any clinician seeking to optimize limited time with clients, the book provides effective methods for treating children struggling with such challenges as posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, disruptive behavior, mood disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and parental divorce. Individual, family, and group treatment models are described and illustrated with richly detailed case examples. Featuring session-by-session guidelines, chapters demonstrate how to engage clients rapidly, develop appropriate treatment goals, and implement carefully structured brief interventions that yield lasting results.

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'This timely book is full of very helpful and creative play therapy interventions appropriate for short-term work with individuals, families, and groups. The structured, goal-oriented approaches described in the many detailed case examples will be welcomed by practicing clinicians and by professors who teach play therapy in various university settings. By acknowledging the reality of time factors and their impact on the structure of treatment, this book helps guide the field of play therapy in the 21st century.' - Nancy Boyd Webb, DSW, BCD, RPT-S, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, New York, USA

'Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, Second Edition, is the definitive book on the subject. If you are a mental health professional using play therapy with children, you need this book. If you are an elementary school counselor who has limited time, you need this book. If you are a professor teaching a class on advanced play therapy strategies or working with children on a time-limited basis, you need this book. It provides detailed, practical information about applying short-term play therapy with individual clients, families, and groups, with a wide variety of populations and issues.' - Terry Kottman, PhD, RPT-S, NCC, LMHC, The Encouragement Zone, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA

About Heidi Gerard Kaduson

Heidi Gerard Kaduson, PhD, private practice, Monroe Township, NJ, and Co-Director, The Play Therapy Training Institute, Inc., Hightstown, NJ, USA Charles E. Schaefer, PhD, Department of Psychology, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Co-Director, The Play Therapy Training Institute, Inc., Hightstown, NJ, USA

Part I: Individual Play Therapy. Kaduson, Release Play Therapy for Children with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Knell, Dasari, Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy for Children with Anxiety and Phobias. Riviere, Short-Term Play Therapy for Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders. Newman, Short-Term Play Therapy for Children with Mood Disorders. Kaduson, Short-Term Play Therapy for Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Part II: Family Play Therapy. VanFleet, Short-Term Play Therapy for Adoptive Families: Facilitating Adjustment and Attachment with Filial Therapy. McNeil, Bahl, Herschell, Involving and Empowering Parents in Short-Term Play Therapy for Disruptive Children. Carey, Short-Term Family Sandplay Therapy. Magnuson, Shaw, Enhancing Play Therapy with Parent Consultation: A Behavioral/Solution-focused Approach. Part III: Group Play Therapy. Gallo-Lopez, A Creative Play Therapy Approach to the Group Treatment of Young Sexually Abused Children. Hunter, Group Sandtray Play Therapy. Ludlow, Williams, Short-Term Group Play Therapy for Children Whose Parents Are Divorcing. Blundon, Schaefer, The Use of Group Play Therapy for Children with Social Skills Deficits.

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CIN1593853300G

ISBN 13

9781593853303

ISBN 10

1593853300

Title

Short-Term Play Therapy for Children by Heidi Gerard Kaduson

Author

Heidi Gerard Kaduson

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Used - Good

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Hardback

Publisher

Guilford Publications

Year published

20060928

Number of pages

388

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