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1. Creative Arts Therapy Approaches to Attachment Issues
What Are the Creative Arts Therapies?
Creative Arts Therapies and the Brain
Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy
Case Vignette: Joanne, a Survivor of Multiple Traumas
2. Play Therapy Approaches to Attachment Issues
Early Roots of the Focus on Attachment in Play Therapy
What Is Attachment Trauma?
How Does Play Therapy Address Attachment Trauma?
Case Vignette: Play Therapy for Attachment Trauma
II. Clinical Applications: Approaches to Working with Attachment Issues
3. Attachment Theory as a Road Map for Play Therapists
Overview of Attachment Theory and Findings from Field Research
Attachment Theory and the COS Model
The Benefits of Secure Attachment
Case Vignette: A COS-Informed Intervention
4. Art Therapy, Attachment, and Parent–Child Dyads
Art Therapy and Attachment
Sensory Materials: Soothing Lower Parts of the Brain
Scribble Chase: Enhancing Reflective Convergence
The Bird’s Nest Drawing and Three-Dimensional Construction
Responding to Art Expressions
5. Music Therapy with Children with Developmental Trauma Disorder
Psychodynamic Music Therapy in the Field of Attachment Trauma
Avoiding Retraumatizing the Child
Mapping the Territory While Being Open to the New
Processes of Containment and Transformation in the Transference Relationship
Containing/Transforming Function of Improvised Songs: From Procedural Memory to Autobiographical Narrative
6. Moving with the Space between Us: The Dance of Attachment Security
Theoretical Foundations: Attachment Theory and the Body
Assumptions and Principles of DMT
DMT and Attachment Theory
7. The Integration of Drama Therapy and Play Therapy in Attachment Work with Traumatized Children
Drama Therapy and Play Therapy
Children, Complex Trauma, and Attachment
Treatment of Complex Trauma in Children
A Selection of Integrative Drama and Play Therapy Exercises
Specific Activities for Addressing Attachment Issues in Complex Trauma
8. Overcoming Complex Trauma with Filial Therapy
Targets of Treatment for Attachment Trauma
FT and Treatment of Complex Trauma
9. Theraplay in Reunification Following Relational Trauma
The Impact and Treatment of Relational Trauma
Case Vignette: Theraplay in Isaiah’s Journey Home
10. The Creative Use of Metaphor in Play and Art Therapy with Attachment Problems
Child Maltreatment and Attachment
Case Vignette: Christine and Sarah
11. The Neurobiological Power of Play: Using the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics to Guide Play in the Healing Process
Play Therapy: Overview, Context, and Efficacy
The Developing Brain and the Vulnerability of Childhood
The Stress Response and State-Dependent Functioning
Implications for Play Therapy
The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics
III. Clinical Applications: Approaches to Working with At-Risk Populations
12. Helping Foster Care Children Heal from Broken Attachments
Challenges to Attachment Formation in Foster Care
Addressing Allegiance Issues
Expressive Arts and Play-Based Techniques
13. Chronic Early Trauma as a Childhood Syndrome and Its Relationship to Play
Affect and Defense in DTD
Neuropsychological Implications of DTD
The Development of a Self in DTD
14. The Princess and Dal Bhat Tarkari: Play Therapy with Children of Cross-Cultural Adoption
15. Turning Back the Clock: Life before Attachment Trauma
Longing for the Pretrauma State
Creating the Trauma Narrative through Play
Developmental Kaleidoscopes
16. Integrated Play Therapy with Childhood Traumatic Grief
Trends in Child Research Influencing the Treatment of CTG
Applying the Research to a Child Experiencing CTG
Self-Care of the Child Therapist and CTG
17. Mending Broken Attachment in Displaced Children: Finding “Home” through Play Therapy
Characteristics and Challenges
Play Therapy with Children Who Are Homeless
Serial Drawings with Children after a Natural Disaster
Creative Arts and Play Therapy for Attachment Problems
( Creative Arts and Play Therapy )
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