Description
Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy is the first book of its kind to provide an overview of key aspects of play and play therapy, considering play on a continuum from generic aspects through to more specific applied and therapeutic techniques and as a stand-alone discipline.
Presented in four parts, the book provides a unique overview of, and ascribes equal value to, the fields of play, therapeutic play, play in therapy and play therapy. Chapters by academics, play practitioners, counsellors, arts therapists and play therapists from countries as diverse as Japan, Cameroon, India, the Czech Republic, Israel, USA, Ireland, Turkey, Greece and the UK explore areas of each topic, drawing links and alliances between each. The book includes complex case studies with children, adolescents and adults in therapy with arts and play therapists, research with children on play, work in schools, outdoor play and play therapy, animal-assisted play therapy, work with street children and play in therapeutic communities around the world.
Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy demonstrates the centrality of play in human development, reminds us of the creative power of play and offers new and innovative applications of research and practical technique. It will be of great interest to academics and students of play, play therapy, child development, education and the therapeutic arts. It will also be a key text for play and creative arts therapists, both in practice and in training, play practitioners, social workers, teachers and anyone working with children.
Table of Contents
Part I – Play 1. Play and childhoods: how are the relationships between researching play and children changing? 2. Lila: teacher´s play through the eyes of a child 3. Cultivating playfulness in the workplace 4. Playing memories: exploring the notion of play amongst participants of participatory theatre in Cameroon 5. The ness of being playful 6. Stages not ages: The emerging Developmental Play approach for differently abled children 7. Playful workshop toolkit for professionals working with children 8. Lilaloka: a place of play 9. Play with children in hospitals: the situation in Japan Part II – Therapeutic Play 10. Playwork as a therapeutic tool 11. Playfulness and other worlds: re-visiting A Midsummer Night’s Dream 12. ‘The Magic Drum’ in action: the use of therapeutic play group intervention to foster positive peer interaction among children with diverse abilities and needs in an international primary school in Prague 13. Planning successful therapeutic material engagements: charting a course from danger to the safe zone 14. Let’s get Messy! enhancing and enriching children’s learning and development through messy play 15. Neuro-Dramatic Play and a hero’s journey: a play-based approach in a UK junior school Part III – Play in Therapy 16. Using play as a counselling tool in a multicultural society 17. The Isle of Silliness: play and dramatherapy with addicted Palestinian men in Israel as a way of balancing in patriarchal society 18. Grannies on the run: into the wild spaces of autistic play 19. "Some body rlse": Harlequin’s journey in forensic sandplay and gender dysphoria 20. Playing together: the use of directed joint engagement activities in Dyadic Art Psychotherapy 21. The "terror of the school" learns to play 22. The international appeal of Filial Therapy: values, methods and its use in Turkey to empower children and families and the therapists who assist them 23. The color of play: breaking through walls within a child’s world 24. Listening to Pan: helping children who panic 25. The story of Angela Part IV – Play Therapy 26. Swings or roundabouts? The case for using a combined play therapy and dramatherapy approach as an effective intervention with children at risk of exclusion 27. Creative interventions with children and adolescents with complex trauma 28. Play therapy/therapeutic play with children with autism: the journey: wait, watch and wonder 29. Play therapy: the ideal environment for play development and the repair of play deprivation 30. Therapeutic use of self and the Play Therapy Dimensions Model 31. What am I doing out here?! Exploring the challenge for play therapy in the outdoors 32. School-based play therapy 33. The healing power of playful animals: Animal Assisted Play Therapy® as an intervention for childhood bullying in South Africa 34. Creating a safe space in a safe place: working creatively with young people in a secure setting 35. Healing through therapeutic play in Malaysia Afterword Closure
