Effective clinical practice requires a thorough understanding of how turning points surface in the play therapy process. These moments can indicate a change in a child's thought or behaviour. The play therapist is the facilitator of these moments and this book will provide guidance on how they can promote these moments.
This edited collection demonstrates successful implementation of the author's proven Play Therapy Dimensions Model. Each chapter uses this framework, as well as other theories, to discuss the markers that can reflect shifts and growth in a child's development. Full of applied guidance, this book will prove to be invaluable for practitioners, instructors and students.
Edited by:
Lorri Yasenik,
Ken Gardner
Imprint: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 151mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781785923883
ISBN 10: 1785923889
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 15 October 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"1. Turning Points and Understanding the Development of Self Through Play Therapy, Lorri Yasenik, Ph.D., RSW, RPT-S, CPT-S, Registered Clinical Social Worker, USA and Ken Gardner, M.Sc., R. Psych, CPT-S, Registered Clinical Child Psychologist, USA. 2. Emergence of self through Learn to Play Therapy, Karen Stagnitti, PhD, Professor, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Australia. 3. Just Like a Kid! Terry Kottman, PhD NCC, RPT-S, LMHC, Founder of The Encouragement Zone, USA. 4. You can be the door"": Establishing safety and facilitating growth of personal identity with a traumatized child, Eileen Prendiville, MA, Psychotherapist, Ireland. 5. Turning Points in Treating Complex Trauma in Carlos, a Foster Care Child, Athena A. Drewes, PsyD, RPT-S, Psychotherapist and Registered Play Therapist, USA. 6. Shame can get stuck in your throat: The Rise of Consciousness for Five-Year-Old Freddy, Paris Goodyear-Brown, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, USA. 7. Corrie and the T-Rex: Courage Reclaimed, Linda E. Homeyer, Professor of Professional Counselling at Texas State University, USA. 8. Acknowledging the unexpressed beneath trauma: An encounter of subjectivities through play therapy, Carolina Araya Ramírez, Child and Family Psychotherapist. Chile Magdalena Oyanedel Frugone, Child and Family Psychotherapist, Chile and Francisca Jenschke Smith. 9. The therapeutic dance: The role of affective synchrony in guiding therapists when to lead and when to follow in psychotherapy with traumatised children, Katherine Olejniczak, Director of Psychology and Play Therapy, Australia. 10. The Container: Piecing Together a Life Story, Adriana Sorbo, Valerie Kendall and Cassandra White. 11. To Kill or Not to Kill While Figuring Out How to Love Me Forever, Theresa Fraser, Certified Canadian Play Therapy Supervisor, Canada. 12. Symbolic Solutions: Establishing a Sense of Safety for Relationship Repair, Sonia Murray, Play Therapist, UK. 13. From isolation to invigoration: Five Canadian play therapists share an emergence of selves through the power of finding belonging in a professional community, Irene A. Barrett, Psychotherapist and Play Therapist intern, USA, Bruce A. Beaudet, Clinician, USA , Katharine Chapman, Clinical Social Worker, USA, Dana Diamond, Psychologist and Play Therapist, USA, and Tammy Reis, USA. 14. Discussion and Summary, Lorri Yasenik and Ken Gardner"
Lorri Yasenik Ph.D., RSW, RPT-S, CPT-S is specialized in working with children and families in the areas of treatment of trauma, high conflict separation and divorce and child development. Ken Gardner M.Sc., R. Psych, CPT-S is a Registered Clinical Child Psychologist with a background in clinical, school and community psychology.
Reviews for Turning Points in Play Therapy and the Emergence of Self: Applications of the Play Therapy Dimensions Model
Yasenik and Gardner have masterfully gathered respected play therapists from diverse theoretical orientations to frame the totality of turning points and its various interlinked elements. Utilizing case vignettes, contributing authors take us inside the sanctity of the play therapy change process. Situated within four main types of turning points; this book applies the Play Therapy Dimensions Model of decision making with the critical importance of the self-reflective tool: Degree of Immersion: The Therapist Use of Self scale to understand, measure, and influence clinical reasoning and decision making. This book is an exemplar of sound clinical synthesis with profound implications for change in play therapy clients, practitioners, and supervisors. I predict you will experience your own developmental turning points of growth as you read through the pages. Savor this experience! -- Mary Anne Peabody, Ed.D., LCSW, RPT-S Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern Maine This book is a must read for all child psychotherapists and play therapists! Its unique focus on change mechanisms and how the Play Therapy Dimensions Model can help practitioners to identify, and track, shifts their own therapeutic use of self as the child moves through the healing process provides rich learning for even the most experienced practitioner. The use of case material is both educational and engaging. -- Siobhán Prendiville, MA Course Leader, the Children's Therapy Centre
