A Therapist's Guide to Working with Preschool and Primary Children
This practical guide provides clinicians with a way in which to do so, with numerous games and imaginative activities to help children aged 4-12 to express and understand their feelings.
Ideas and Activities for Working with Anger and Emotional Regulation
Support children to better understand and manage their anger with this practical guide of therapeutic activities. From exploring a child's first steps in therapy to helping parents and carers with their responses, this book provides practical advice for working with children aged 4-12 and families navigating issues of anger and emotional ......
Ideas and Activities for Working Therapeutically with Worried Children and Their Families
This book sets out therapeutic activities to help children aged 4-12 years and their families to better understand and manage anxiety. It explains how to work with anxious children, providing a framework for assessment and therapy that draws on CBT, ACT and narrative therapy approaches.
A Practical Guide to Using Rhythmic Music, Voice and Movement for Social and Emotional Development
Combining rhythmic music and movement with cognitive reflection and mindfulness, this comprehensive handbook shows how drumming and other rhythm-based exercises can have a powerful effect in individual, group and family settings.
Incorporating the latest research on how rhythmic music impacts the brain, this book features over ......
Creative Tools and Interventions to Nurture Therapeutic Relationships
A practical guide showing therapists how to incorporate creative interventions into counselling to help clients through art, sound, movement, symbols and poetry. It includes activities and example scripts to incorporate creativity into every step of the therapeutic journey.
An essential guide for Theraplay (R) practitioners and care professionals, this book explores the benefits of play when helping children on the autism spectrum to develop communication and emotional skills. Case studies and specialist advice guide the reader towards an integrated, effective use of Theraplay (R) to support clients' social ......
This book lays the philosophical foundation for a fresh interpretation of art-making and the therapeutic process by re-examining the concept of poiesis. The authors clarify the methodology and theory of practice with a focus on intermodal therapy, crystallization theory and polyaesthetics, and give guidance on the didactics of skills acquisition.
Assessing and Observing Structure and Process in Play Therapy
Written by a leading child psychologist, this clearly written and practical book provides a template for interpreting change and meaning in children's lives through their play activity. It shows how each child's pattern of play has a distinct profile of measurable features. These can be identified - and can be used to assess the child's ......
Creative Approaches to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
A comprehensive overview of ACT that shows how to implement art therapy interventions from an ACT approach. Including integrative approaches of behaviorism, relational frame theory, and Zen Buddhism , this book provides art tools for clients to develop positive relationships with themselves and contextualize negative thoughts constructively.