Full Description
Counseling Families: Play-Based Treatment offers an engaging and practical integration of expressive arts and play therapy within family counseling. Building upon the most current research in family counseling, this volume presents new and humanistic approaches of family play therapy, including family-based cognitive behavioral therapy, family theraplay, and filial therapy. Application of these methods is explored with children and families affected by autism, divorce, and trauma. Essential coverage of the ethics of family play therapy as well as the therapist's own self-care is also included in this comprehensive and valuable resource. Counseling Families: Play-Based Treatment provides clinicians and family counselors with an integrative and effective model of family counseling that will help children and families understand and develop their mental health needs.
Contents
Chapter 1: Family Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Janine Shelby
Chapter 2: Family Theraplay
Evangeline Munns and Catherine Munns
Chapter 3: Incorporating Parents into Young Children's Psychotherapy: Filial Therapy
Glade Topham and Risë Van Fleet
Chapter 4: Psyche and System: Jungian Family Play Counseling
Mary Anne Paré
Chapter 5: Adlerian Family Play Therapy
Kristin Meany Whalen and Terry Kottman
Chapter 6: Play-Based Psychometric Assessment and Treatment Planning with Families
Christine Koehler, Brittany Wilson, and Jennifer Baggerly
Chapter 7: Family Play Therapy with Children Affected by Autism
Robert Jason Grant
Chapter 8: Play Therapy with Children in Divorced or Blended Families
Jennifer Baggerly and Eric Green
Chapter 9: Integrative Family Play Counseling with Children Affected by Trauma
Sueann Kenny-Nozisca
Chapter 10: Supervision of Play Therapists Conducting Family Therapy
Linda Homeyer and Marshall Lyles
Chapter 11: Tempered in the Fire: Self-Care and Mindfulness in Preventing Clinical Burnout
Rosalind Heiko
