The Therapeutic Powers of Play: 20 Core Agents of Change

Authors: Charles E. Schaefer, Athena A. Drewes
Publisher: Wiley
Edition: 1
Publish Year: 2013
ISBN: 9781118336878

Revised and expanded, The Therapeutic Powers of Play, Second Edition explores the powerful effects that play therapy has on different areas within a child or adolescent's life: communication, emotion regulation, relationship enhancement, and personal strengths. Editors Charles Schaefer and Athena Drewes―renowned experts in the field of play therapy―discuss the different interventions and components of treatment that can move clients to change.
Leading play therapists contributed to this volume, supplying a wide repertoire of practical techniques and applications in each chapter for use in clinical practice, including:
-Direct teaching
-Indirect teaching
-Self-expression
-Relationship enhancement
-Attachment formation
-Catharsis
-Stress inoculation
-Creative problem solving
-Self-esteem