Play Therapy Interventions with Children's Problems: Case Studies with DSM-IV Diagnoses / Edition 1

by Garry L. Landreth, Linda Homeyer

Overview

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 variesty of theoretical positions for dealing with a broad range of specific problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568214825
Publisher:	Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date:	04/01/2000
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	7.18(w) x 9.22(h) x 1.14(d)

About the Author

Garry L. Landreth, Ed. D., is a Regents Professor in the Department of Counselor Education at the University of North Texas, where he is founder and Director of the Center for Play Therapy, the largest play therapy training program in the nation. Dr. Landreth is a former Chair of the Board of Directors of the Association for Play Therapy and recipient of the prestigious Virginia Axline Distinguished Professional Award for his work in conceptualizing and promoting Child-Centered Play Therapy. His publications include Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship and Play Therapy Interventions with Children's Problems. Dr. Landreth has been a featured speaker at play therapy conferences throughout the United States and in Canada, China, Europe, and South Africa.

Linda E. Homeyer, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in guidance and counseling at Southwest Texas State University. Dr. Homeyer assisted Texas in becoming the first state chartered by the Association for Play Therapy and has served on the Association's board since that time, currently as its president-elect.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xi
1	Abuse and Neglect	1
	Processing Physical and Emotional Abuse through Puppet Play	1
	Overcoming the Effects of Severe Deprivation, Dehydration, and Coma through Play Therapy	4
	Play Therapy and Disclosure of Abuse	6
	The Impact of Play Therapy on Self-Concept and Self-Mastery in Sexually Abused Children	8
	Play Therapy with a Severely Neglected, Emotionally Abused Child	11
2	Aggression and Acting Out	15
	Play Therapy with an Aggressive Child	15
	Play Therapy and Video Feedback of Play Sessions with Oppositional Disordered Children	18
	Play Therapy as an Intervention for Acting-Out Children	20
	A Group Play Technique for Rewarding Social Responsibility	23
	Play Group Counseling as an Effective Intervention for Children with Behavior Problems	26
	Brief Play Therapy for a Preschooler with Severe Temper Tantrums	28
	Play Therapy for the Institutionalized Child	30
	Play Therapy for Behavior Problems Centered around Issues of Anger, Fear, and Control	32
	Psychoanalytic Play Therapy with an Acting-Out Child	35
	Play Therapy with Conduct-Disordered Children	37
	Effect of Play Therapy on Withdrawn and Aggressive Behavior	39
	Effectiveness of Individual and Group Play Therapy for Kindergartners with Adjustment Problems	41
3	Attachment Difficulties	45
	Child-Centered Play Therapy for Problems Associated with Attachment	45
	Cognitive, Reflective, and Psychodynamic Play Therapy Techniques for Promoting the Attachment Process in an Adopted Boy	48
4	Autism	51
	Psychodynamic Play Therapy with a High-Functioning Autistic Child	51
	Treating Autism with Psychoanalytic Play Therapy	54
5	Burn Victims	57
	Multimodal Treatment of a Burned Child	57
	Development of a Preoperative Play Program for Burned Children	60
6	Chronic Illness	63
	Play Therapy with an Asthmatic Child	63
	Individual Play Therapy for Children with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus	66
7	Deaf and Physically Challenged Children	69
	Sand Play with Hyperkinetic, Epileptic Children	70
	Play Therapy with Preschool Deaf Children	72
8	Dissociation and Schizophrenia	75
	Jungian Play Therapy with a Schizophrenic Boy	76
	Play Therapy with a Dissociative Child	78
	Play Therapy with a Regressed Schizophrenic Adolescent Girl	81
	Group Play Therapy with Psychotic Adolescent Girls	83
9	Emotionally Disturbed Children	87
	Developmental Play Group Counseling with Emotionally Disturbed Children	87
	Play Therapy Treatment of Emotional Disturbance and Trichotillomania in a Child with Mild Microcephaly	89
	Group Play Therapy with Emotionally Disturbed Children	91
	Individual Play Therapy with Emotionally Disturbed Children in a School Setting	94
10	Enuresis and Encopresis Problems	97
	Play and Drama Therapy for Enuresis and Acting-Out Behaviors	97
	Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy in the Treatment of Encopresis	100
	Psychodynamic Play Therapy with an Encopretic Child	102
11	Fear and Anxiety	105
	Extreme Anxiety in a Primary-Grade Child	105
	Play Therapy with a Child Who Had Pulled Out All of Her Hair	107
	Use of Structured Play to Discover the Cause of the Fear of Being Kidnapped	109
	Home Play Therapy and Toilet Training	112
	Brief Play Therapy for Stammering	114
	Focused Play to Resolve Separation Anxiety	116
12	Grief	119
	Sand Play Therapy with a Grieving Child	119
	Puppets in the Treatment of Traumatic Grief	122
	Group Play Therapy with Bereaved Children	124
	Child-Centered Play Therapy with a Grieving Child	126
13	Hospitalization	129
	Treating Hospital Fear Reactions with Play Therapy	129
	Brief Puppet Therapy for Children Facing Cardiac Catheterization	132
	The Effects of Play Therapy on Hospitalized Children	134
	Helping Young Children Master Intrusive Procedures through Play	136
	Play Therapy in a Pediatric Hospital Department	138
	Puppet Therapy for Children Undergoing Hospital Surgery	141
	Impact of Therapeutic Play on Hospitalized Children	143
14	Learning-Disabled Children	147
	Play Therapy for Children with Learning Disabilities	147
	Effectiveness of Self-Directive Play with Educationally Handicapped Children	149
	Play Therapy with Labeled Children in the Schools	152
15	Mentally Challenged (Handicapped)	155
	Group Play Therapy with Mentally Challenged Children	155
	The Effect of Play Therapy on IQ and Emotional and Social Development of Mentally Challenged Children	157
	Play Therapy with Mentally Challenged Institutionalized Children	160
	Effects of Directive Versus Nondirective Play Therapy with Mentally Retarded Children	162
16	Reading Difficulties	165
	Teacher Use of Play Therapy Procedures for Poor Readers	166
	Brief Client-Centered Play Therapy to Increase Reading Skills	168
	Play Therapy as an Intervention for a Reading Problem	170
	Nondirective Play Therapy with Low Achievers in Reading	172
17	Selective Mutism	175
	Nondirective Play Therapy with an Elective Mute Child	176
	Individual and Sibling Group Play Therapy with a Selective Mute Child	178
	Psychoanalytic Play Therapy with an Elective Mute Child	180
18	Self-Concept and Self-Esteem	183
	Play Therapy Increases the Self-Concept of Poor Readers	184
	Activity Play Therapy to Increase Elementary Students' Self-Concept	186
	Child-Centered Group Play Therapy as an Intervention to Increase Sociometric Status and Self-Concept	187
	Child-Centered Play Therapy to Increase Self-Efficacy in the Schools	189
	Effects of Intensive Group Play Media on Self-Concepts of Children	191
	Impact of Play Therapy on At-Risk Students in the School	193
19	Social Adjustment Problems	197
	Group Play Therapy as an Intervention for Children with Peer and Sibling Relationship Problems	198
	Self-Directive Play Therapy as a Treatment for Socially Immature Kindergarten Children	200
	Play Therapy for Children with School Adjustment Problems	202
	Group Play Therapy as an Intervention Modality for Modifying the Social Adjustment of Primary-Grade Boys	204
	Development of Self-Control in Bilingual Children through Group Play Therapy	207
	Child-Centered Play Therapy for Children with Personal-Social Problems in School	208
	Group Play Therapy with Children Who Are Socially Isolated	210
20	Speech Difficulties	213
	Nondirective Group Play Therapy to Facilitate Speech and Language Development in Preschool Children	214
	Play Therapy Intervention for Regression of Speech in a Young Child	216
	Theraplay with Articulation Disorders	219
	Group Play Therapy to Improve Speech, Social Skills, Personality Attributes, and Intelligence	221
	Group Play Therapy for Japanese Children Who Stutter	223
21	Traumatization	227
	Child-Centered Play Therapy with a Neglected Child Traumatized by Hospitalization	228
	Intensive Play Therapy with Child Witnesses of Domestic Violence	230
	Psychoanalytic Play Therapy with a Child Suffering from Traumatic Neurosis	232
	Racial Differences Cause Extreme Rejection in Play Therapy: An Issue for Therapist and Child	235
	Group Play Therapy for Preschoolers Exposed to Domestic Violence	237
	Intensive Group Play Therapy with Child Witnesses of Domestic Violence	240
22	Withdrawn Children	243
	Child-Centered Play Therapy with an Extremely Withdrawn Boy	244
	The Use of Operant Conditioning in Nondirective Group Play Therapy with Withdrawn Third-Grade Boys	246
	Behavioral Learning Theory Applied to Play Therapy as an Intervention with a Withdrawn, Noneating Child	248
	Child-Centered Play Therapy with a Withdrawn Child	251
	Index	255
	About the Editors	265

What People are Saying About This

Charles E. Schaefer

In this volume play therapy articles and dissertations published over the past fifty years are digested for ease of reference. The result is a comprehensive overview of the play therapy literature that will be most useful to play therapists and researchers across the country.

Terry Kottman

A gold mine of useful information. This book will be a practice-saver for play therapists in private practice and agencies that must justify their interventions to insurance providers and managed health care companies. The authors suggest possible DSM-IV diagnoses and both case study and empirical support for play therapy as the treatment of choice with a wide range of presenting problems—exactly the kind of information requested by most insurance companies and other third-party payers.

Editorial Reviews

A gold mine of useful information. This book will be a practice-saver for play therapists in private practice and agencies that must justify their interventions to insurance providers and managed health care companies. The authors suggest possible DSM-IV diagnoses and both case study and empirical support for play therapy as the treatment of choice with a wide range of presenting problems—exactly the kind of information requested by most insurance companies and other third-party payers.

Terry Kottman Terry Kottman

In this volume play therapy articles and dissertations published over the past fifty years are digested for ease of reference. The result is a comprehensive overview of the play therapy literature that will be most useful to play therapists and researchers across the country.

Charles E. Schaefer

A gold mine of useful information. This book will be a practice-saver for play therapists in private practice and agencies that must justify their interventions to insurance providers and managed health care companies. The authors suggest possible DSM-IV diagnoses and both case study and empirical support for play therapy as the treatment of choice with a wide range of presenting problems—exactly the kind of information requested by most insurance companies and other third-party payers.

Terry Kottman