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Gil, Eliana – 1998
In this 36-minute educational video, a play and family therapist elucidates the nature of trauma, how to recognize it clinically, and how to manage its powerful effects upon children's development with the use of specific play materials and techniques. With a reenacted clinical interview, footage from an actual play therapy session, and a detailed…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Behavior, Disability Identification, Emotional Disturbances
Peer reviewed
Nystul, Michael S. – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1980
Nystulian Play Therapy is based on Adlerian strategies. Encouragement of and respect for the child are emphasized. Teacher and parent education are important parts of a comprehensive approach to affective positive change in the child. (JAC)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Child Psychology, Counseling Techniques
Rogers, Mary Brown; L'Abate, Luciano – 1969
The references listed are: (1) journals, (2) dissertation abstracts, (3) books, (4) reports, and (5) monographs. The main subjects covered are: (1) children's play, (2) psychotherapy with disturbed children through the medium of play therapy, and (3) various aspects of child development, both normal and abnormal. The materials listed date from…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Bibliographies, Child Development, Children
Homeyer, Linda E.; Landreth, Garry L. – 1994
The purpose of this study was to identify play therapy behaviors of sexually abused children. Surveys were sent to members of the Association for Play Therapy, of which 249 respondents, who worked with 16 or more sexually abused children, were used. Results indicate that there are identifiable and highly interrelated PTBs of sexually abused…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Behavior, Children
Peer reviewed
Kranz, Peter L.; Ramirez, Sylvia Z.; Flores-Torres, Leila; Steele, Richard; Lund, Nick L. – Education, 2005
There is a dearth of literature on multicultural aspects of play therapy, particularly for Mexican-American children. According to Landreth (2002), it is of utmost importance that children be able to communicate in a way that is most natural to them. The literature currently reflects a playroom based mostly on middle class European-American…
Descriptors: Play Therapy, Mexican Americans, Minority Group Children, Hispanic American Culture
Arnold, Cath – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2009
Edward was one of 58 children studied by workers and parents as part of a study on Well-being and Resilience at the Pen Green Nursery. Within the larger study, eight children were studied in greater depth in order to explore connections between cognitive and emotional development. Schematic theory and attachment theory were used as frameworks for…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Psychotherapy, Emotional Development
Baggerly, Jennifer – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2006
The author defines and presents a rationale for service learning, provides procedures for implementing service learning with children affected by poverty, and describes methods of facilitating multicultural counseling competence. Examples are provided from a graduate counseling class that conducted group play therapy with 11 African American…
Descriptors: Therapy, African American Children, Service Learning, Play Therapy
Peer reviewed
Keith, David V.; Whitaker, Carl A. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1981
Provides a partial list of similarities between play therapy and family therapy and reviews methods for using play with families. Considers the question of indications and contraindications for play therapy with families. Clinical examples are utilized to illustrate throughout the paper. (Author)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Client Relationship
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Allan, John; Brown, Keith – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1993
Presents Jungian approach to school counseling which places emphasis on importance of positive therapeutic alliance in activating self-healing archetype embedded within children's psyches. Explains Jungian theory and counseling methods, then presents case study of 8-year-old third-grade boy and his 15 sessions of therapy. (NB)
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Play Therapy
Landreth, Garry L.; Hendricks, Shirley – Texas Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1977
Through his play a child extends himself into areas which he has difficulty entering verbally. If counselors are to communicate effectively with children, they must consider this important dimension and provide at least limited opportunity for the child to utilize play as a natural part of his effort to communicate. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Education, Helping Relationship
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Johnson, Lynette; McLeod, Elizabeth H.; Fall, Marijane – Professional School Counseling, 1997
Reports on an intervention for labeled children (N=6) in elementary schools that engaged them in nondirective child-centered play therapy sessions. Results indicate that the therapy provided the children the opportunities to express feelings, experience control, and develop coping skills. Claims that play therapy provides labeled children with the…
Descriptors: Children, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Elementary Education
Kooij, Rimmert van der; Hellendoorn, Joop – 1986
After an introduction which briefly discusses emotional, therapeutic, phenomenological, cognitive, and developmental perspectives on play, this volume presents the complete texts of all the main lectures and a few short papers that were given at the International Symposium on Play, Play Therapy, and Play Research. Papers in part 1 concern certain…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Children, Creativity, Exploratory Behavior
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Barlow, Karen; And Others – School Counselor, 1986
Presents the case study of an elective mute child. Describes the effects of sibling play therapy and lists implications for school counselors who might use group or sibling play therapy in their developmental guidance programs. (ABB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Counseling Techniques, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Disturbances
Hannah, Gregory L.; Rave, Elizabeth J. – 1984
Play therapy has been employed by therapists to alleviate children's emotional stress. Most research dealing with this type of intervention has been in the form of case studies, focusing on therapy outcome rather than on the therapeutic process. The process of one child in individual play therapy was analyzed through the use of time-series…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Models, Play Therapy
Peer reviewed
Barlow, Karen; And Others – School Counselor, 1985
Presents a case study of a four-year-old girl who had pulled out all her hair. The child's responsiveness to play therapy is described, and implications for the use of play therapy in school counseling situations are described. (JAC)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Developmental Stages, Play Therapy