Research Catalog

Title

Family play therapy / edited by Charles E. Schaefer, Lois J. Carey.

Publication

Northvale, N.J. : J. Aronson, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Carey, Lois J.
• Schaefer, Charles E.

Description

xiv, 322 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• By combining both play and family treatment modalities as this unique book, Family Play Therapy, suggests, therapists can include all family members in a therapeutic process that is more meaningful and therefore more successful.
• Family Play Therapy encourages the blending of play therapy and family therapy by discussing and demonstrating various techniques and diverse theoretical approaches that will enable readers to broaden their repertoire when working with families and their young children. Each author describes his or her own creative avenue of expression such as puppetry, psychodrama, and sandplay, which facilitate the family's communication, helping members to find new ways to hear each other.
• Family therapy and play therapy need not be mutually exclusive. The two approaches actually can enhance and enrich each other. While each therapist ultimately will use his or her own balance in the critical combining of both methods, Family Play Therapy offers various possibilities and as such, enables therapists to help their family patients readily engage in treatment and experience therapy as an enjoyable, inclusive, transforming time together.
• Play therapy and family therapy are both well-established therapeutic paradigms. Often, however, play therapists have minimal contact with the nuclear family of which their child patient is a member. Similarly, family therapists frequently view young children as disruptive and exclude them from family sessions.

Series Statement

Child therapy series

Uniform Title

Child therapy series.

Subjects

• Mental Disorders > Child
• Family Therapy
• Family psychotherapy
• Mental Disorders > therapy
• Play therapy
• Play Therapy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Family Play Therapy: History, Theory, and Convergence / Wendy Miller -- 2. Family Puppet Interview / Eleanor C. Irwin and Elaine S. Malloy -- 3. A Diagnostic Technique for Assessment of Parent-Child and Family Interaction Patterns: The Family Puppet Technique / Patricia Tracy Ross -- 4. Playroom Setting for Diagnostic Family Interviews / Ibrahim N. Orgun -- 5. Interviewing Families with Children: Guidelines and Suggestions / Richard Chasin -- 6. The Collaborative Drawing Technique / Gavin M. Smith -- 7. Young Children and Play in Object Relations Family Therapy / David E. Scharff -- 8. Play with Young Children in Family Therapy: An Extension of the Therapist's Holding Capacity / Jill Savege Scharff -- 9. Treatment with Child and Mother in the Playroom / James H. Straughan -- 10. Unlocking the Family Secret in Family Play Therapy / Bonnie Eaker -- 11. Child Relationship Enhancement: Family Therapy and Parent Education / Louise F. Guerney and Bernard Guerney, Jr.
• 12. Family Play Therapy as an Effective Tool in Child Psychiatry / Thomas G. Hardaway II -- 13. An Integrative Approach to Working with Troubled Children and Their Families / Ellen F. Wachtel -- 14. The Family Life Cycle: A Framework for Understanding Family Development and Play in Family Therapy / Joan Zilbach and Sharon Gordetsky -- 15. Play Therapy: A Paradigm for Work with Families / David V. Keith and Carl A. Whitaker -- 16. Family Sandplay Therapy / Lois Carey -- 17. Family Art Psychotherapy / Helen B. Landgarten -- 18. Psychodramatic Methods in Family Therapy / Adam Blatner -- 19. Kinetic Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Families / Robert S. Schachter -- 20. The Parent-Child Activity Group: Using Activities to Work with Children and Their Families in Residential Treatment / Gino DeSalvatore and Deborah Rosenman -- 21. Child-Directed Interaction: Family Play Therapy for Developmentally Delayed Preschoolers / Lisa Hensley McElreath and Toni Hembree Eisenstadt.
• 22. Creating a Family: An Integrated Expressive Approach to Adoption / Steve Harvey.

ISBN

1568211503

LCCN

93047160

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries