Short-Term Play Therapy for Children by Heidi Gerard Kaduson

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.

'This timely second edition is full of very helpful and creative play therapy interventions appropriate for short-term work with individuals, families, and groupsThe 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, 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

'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

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

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ISBN 13	9781593853303
ISBN 10	1593853300
Title	Short-Term Play Therapy for Children
Author	Heidi Gerard Kaduson
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Guilford Publications
Year published	2006-09-28
Number of pages	388
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.