Main description:

The fully updated and revised Second Edition presents an A-to-Z guide for using play therapy in preschool and elementary school settings. This comprehensive reference covers why and how to implement a play therapy program in school settings; play-based prevention programs; individual play therapy approaches as well as group play; and play therapy with special populations. Co-edited by proven authors and acknowledged experts in the field, School-Based Play Therapy offers school counselors, psychologists, social workers, and teachers the latest techniques to develop their own creative approaches to utilizing the therapeutic powers of play.

Contents:

Preface. Contributors. Part I Play Therapy: Its Therapeutic Power and Research Effects. 1 The Therapeutic Powers of Play and Play Therapy (Charles E. Schaefer and Athena A. Drewes). 2 Meeting the Early Mental Health Needs of Children Through School-Based Play Therapy: A Review of Outcome Research (Sue C. Bratton ). Part II Implementing Play Therapy in the Schools. 3 Guidelines for Incorporating Play Therapy in the Schools (Kristi Perryman and Judy Doran). 4 Challenges and Barriers to Implementing Play Therapy in Schools (Dee Ray). Part III Play-Based Assessments. 5 Using Play Therapy Assessment in an Elementary and Intermediate School Setting (Mary May Schmidt). 6 Transdisciplinary Play-based Assessment and Intervention in the Primary Years (Toni Linder and Brittney Bixby). Part IV Play-Based Prevention Programs with Paraprofessionals and Teachers. 7 Helping Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers Foster Play in the Classroom (Karen Stagnitti). 8 Primary Project: An Evidenced Based Approach (Mary Anne Peabody, Deborah Johnson, and A. Dirk Hightower). 9 Child Teacher Relationship Training: Using the Power of the Child-Teacher Relationship as a School-Based Mental Health Intervention (Mary Morrison and Wendy Pretz Helker). 10 Treating Disruptive Classroom Behaviors of Preschoolers Through Teacher-Child Interaction Therapy (David McIntosh). Part V Individual and Group Play Therapy Approaches. 11 LEGO(R)-Based Play Therapy for Autistic Spectrum Children (Daniel LeGoff, G.W. Krauss, and Sarah Allen Levin). 12 Trauma-Focused Group Play Therapy in the Schools (Yih-Jiun Shen). 13 Group Sandplay in Elementary Schools (Theresa Kestly). 14 Play Therapy for Anger Management in the Schools (Barbara Fischetti). 15 Group Play Interventions for Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Linda Reddy). Part VI Special Populations and Special Issues. 16 Play Therapy for Children of Alcoholics (Laura Jacobus-Kantor and James G. Emshoff). 17 Understanding and Generalizing Communication Patterns in Children with Selective Mutism (Laurie Zelinger). 18 Play, Create, Express, Understand: Bereavement Groups in Schools (Ruthellen Griffin). 19 Redrawing the Front Line: A Play Therapy Service for Meeting the Psychosocial Needs of Children and Families in School (Geraldine Thomas). 20 The Nana s Model: School-Based Play Therapy with Children who are Homeless or Severely Impoverished (Ana Sutton). 21 Better Playtimes: A School-Based Therapeutic Play Intervention for Staff and Children (Alison Woolf). Author Index. Subject Index.