Description
Illustrating the power of play for helping children overcome a wide variety of worries, fears, and phobias, this book provides a toolkit of play therapy approaches and techniques. Coverage encompasses everyday fears and worries in 3- to 12-year-olds as well as anxiety disorders and posttraumatic problems. Leading practitioners describe their approaches step by step and share vivid illustrative case material. Each chapter also summarizes the research base for the interventions discussed. Key topics include adapting therapy to each child's developmental level, engaging reluctant or less communicative clients, and involving parents in treatment.
Chapter
1. Play-Based Approaches for Treating Childhood Anxieties: Basic Concepts and Practices
Part. I. Common Childhood Fears and Anxieties
2. Anxiety and the Hospitalized Child: Best Practices for Guiding Therapeutic Play
3. Play Interventions for Children’s Nighttime Fears
4. Play Therapy Practices with Children Experiencing Nightmares
5. Play-Based Treatment for School-Related Fears and Phobias of Children
6. Release Play Interventions for Children Who Experienced Stressful Life Events
Part II. Specific Anxiety Disorders
7. Integrating Play and Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions to Treat Childhood Worries and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Taming Worry Dragons
8. Theraplay as a Treatment for Children with Selective Mutism: Integrating the Polyvagal Theory, Attachment Theory, and Social Communication
9. Integrating Play Therapy into Treatment of Children with Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
10. Play Therapy for Separation Anxiety in Children
11. Effective Play-Based Interventions for Social Anxiety Disorder
12. Integrating Play Therapy into Single-Session Behavioral Treatment for Preschool Children with Specific Phobias
Part III. Posttraumatic Anxieties
13. Play-Based Interventions for Children Traumatized by Natural and Human-Made Disasters
14. Helping Sexually Abused Children Overcome Anxiety: A Play-Based Integrative Approach
Appendix. Helpful Bibliotherapy Books
Play-Based Interventions for Childhood Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias
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