Main description:

This is the latest edition of Garry Landreth's comprehensive text on creating therapeutic relationships with children through play.

This book details Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT), an evidence-based model, which stresses the importance of understanding the child's world. Professors who have taught a course based on the previous editions will be pleased to find the core message intact but updated with a comprehensive review of rigorous contemporary research demonstrating the strong evidence base for CCPT across cultural groups and presenting issues. Expanded to cover additional topics of interest, this new edition includes a model of the change process in CCPT and 13 new Rules of Thumb that help clarify the CCPT relationship, and discusses deeper issues in CCPT such as recognizing emotional blocks in play therapy, being culturally responsive, discovering meaning when there seems to be no meaning, and more.

This new edition offers essential help to play therapists who respond to sensitive issues at every stage of the therapeutic process.

Contents:

1. About Me, Garry Landreth 2. The Meaning of Play 3. History and Development of Play Therapy 4. A View of Children 5. Child-Centered Play Therapy 6. Being Culturally Responsive 7. The Play Therapist 8. Supervision and Play Therapy Training 9. Parent as Partners in Play Therapy 10. The Playroom and Materials 11. Beginning the Relationship: The Child's Time 12. Characteristics of Facilitative Responses 13. Discovering Meaning When There Seems to be No Meaning 14. Therapeutic Limit Setting 15. Typical Problems in Play Therapy and What to Do If... 16. Issues in Play Therapy 17. Determining Therapeutic Process and Termination 18. Intensive and Short-Term Child-Centered Play Therapy 19. Research Evidence for CCPT