Play Therapy Interventions with Children's Problems : Case Studies with DSM-IV-TR Diagnoses

Presenting effective play therapy techniques, the authors suggest possible diagnoses and both case study and empirical support for play therapy as the treatment of choice with a range of presenting problems. It offers a digest of some of the most significant play therapy literature for practicing play therapists and researchers.

This is an easy-to-use reference to the most effective play therapy techniques and their substantiated results. Play therapy is not an approach based on guess, trial and error, or whims of the therapist at the moment. It is a well-thought-out, philosophically conceived, developmentally based, and research-supported method of helping children cope with and overcome the problems they experience in the process of living their lives. Concise digests of play therapy procedures explore the most difficult, as well as the most common problems encountered by play therapists. These digests cover play therapy approaches based on a variety of theoretical positions for dealing with a broad range of specific problems. Because they often do not have access to substantiated results, play therapists sometimes doubt themselves and the effectiveness of their work. This book, an invaluable resource, puts an end to such questioning.