Charles E. Schaefer
Play-Based Interventions for Childhood Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias
Illustrating the power of play for helping children overcome a wide variety of worries, fears, and phobias, this book provides a toolkit of play therapy approaches and techniques. Coverage... (more)
Prescriptive Play Therapy: Tailoring Interventions for Specific Childhood Problems
This book helps practitioners choose from the broad range of play therapy approaches to create a comprehensive treatment plan that meets the individual needs of each child. From leaders in the field,... (more)
Play Therapy in Action
This casebook offers step-by-step treatment guidelines for a number of childhood difficulties, including internalization, externalization, and post-traumatic disorders. It brings together concrete... (more)
Handbook of Play Therapy: Vol. 2: Advances and Innovations
An in-depth look at state-of-the-art play therapy practices and principles. While it updates readers on significant advances in sand play diagnosis, theraplay, group play, and other well-known... (more)
The Playing Cure: Individualized Play Therapy for Specific Childhood Problems
Focusing on the curative powers of play, this book demonstrates how play therapy can be adapted to the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety... (more)
Play Therapy Techniques: Second Edition
This is a convenient sourcebook of practical techniques in play therapy. It offers a wide variety of play techniques, including classic and recent approaches, and also contains explicit "how-to"... (more)
Short-term psychotherapy groups for children: adapting group processes for specific problems:
The short-term group approach to child therapy is a method of helping children to overcome a range of emotional and behavioural problems. This work provides therapists at all levels of experience... (more)
101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques
Building on children's natural inclinations to pretend and reenact, play therapy is widely used in the treatment of psychological problems in childhood. 101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques... (more)
How to Influence Children: A Handbook of Practical Child Guidance Skills: Second Edition
This handbook aims to help those working with children to foster healthy growth and development. Specific topics discussed include: understanding why children misbehave, when to ignore a child's... (more)
Children in Residential Care: Critical Issues in Treatment
This work aims to provide expert and in-depth discussions of the most critical issues underlying effective residential treatment, and offers guidelines for dealing with these issues. The first... (more)
Family Play Therapy
The principles of play therapy and family therapy are being combined into a approach, termed "Family Play Therapy". The use of play activities facilitates the communication and involvement of the... (more)
101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques: Volume 3
A resource for play therapy techniques. The contributors are from a diverse group including child-centred, gestalt and Jungian play therapists. The techniques are grouped in seven sections:... (more)
Play Diagnosis and Assessment:
Through play children can express emotions that they cannot verbalise. This completely revised edition of a classic, field-leading resource explains to clinicians how best to identify children's... (more)
Separation Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: An Individualized Approach to Assessment and Treatment
This unique book presents a research-based approach to understanding the challenges of separation anxiety and helping children, adolescents, and their parents build the skills they need to overcome... (more)
Contemporary Play Therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice
Presenting the most recent advances in play therapy, including evidence-based approaches, this current volume is clinically oriented and features numerous case examples. Its coverage includes... (more)
Play Therapy with Adolescents
Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate. How do mental health professionals get past the facade? Play... (more)
101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques: Volume 3
This book is an amazing resource for play therapy techniques. The contributors come from a diverse group including child-centered, cognitive-behavioral, gestalt, Jungian, psychodynamic, and... (more)
International Handbook of Play Therapy: Advances in Assessment, Theory, Research and Practice
In the past twenty-five years, the practice of play therapy has increased exponentially in America and throughout the world. This handbook brings together an international group of scholars and... (more)
Foundations of Play Therapy: Second Edition
This fully updated and revised Second Edition provides in-depth coverage of all the major models of play therapy from leading play therapists. Each chapter is fully revised and provides up-to-date... (more)
Short-Term Play Therapy for Children: Third Edition
Illustrated with rich case examples, this widely used practitioner resource and text presents a range of play approaches that facilitate healing in a shorter time frame. Leading play therapists from... (more)
Essential Play Therapy Techniques: Time-Tested Approaches
Highly practical and user friendly, this book presents 58 play therapy techniques that belong in every child clinician's toolbox. The expert authors draw from multiple theoretical orientations to... (more)
Short-Term Play Therapy for Children: Third Edition
Illustrated with rich case examples, this widely used practitioner resource and text presents a range of play approaches that facilitate healing in a shorter time frame. Leading play therapists from... (more)
Play Therapy with Adults
This timely guide covers healing through the use of a variety of play therapy techniques and methods. Various client groups and treatment settings are given special attention, including working with... (more)
Innovative psychotherapy techniques in child and adolescent therapy:
This is a comprehensive sourcebook of innovative techniques in the rapidly growing field of child and adolescent therapy. The emphasis is on clinical practice - and the techniques that have been... (more)