The Play Therapy Primer: An Integration of Theories and Techniques

Offers health care professionals and students a balance of fundamentals, theory and practical techniques. Introductory chapters present theories of play therapy and examine the impact of the therapist's values and beliefs on their ability to work with children in this modality, while the latter chapters are written as a handbook for the practice of individual and group play therapy. Integrating several approaches to the practice of play therapy, including modifications for different ages, the book defines a model of development relevant to applying play therapy. While written for the student or novice therapist, it will also prove stimulating, useful and clinically indispensable to psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, counselors and child life specialists at all levels of training and experience.