Play Therapy with Abused Children: Second Edition

This second edition of Ann Cattanach's highly commended book explores the uses of play therapy with abused children as a way of helping them to heal their distress and make sense of their experiences through expanding their own creativity in play. The book provides practical ways of starting play therapy with abused children and explains how the child can use the process for healing. Models of intervention are described which meet the particular needs of the child and the work setting of the therapist; for example, short and medium term interventions, individual/group and sibling work. This edition is fully revised and provides new materials, including case histories and additional chapters on working with young perpetrators of abuse, and on the impact of the Internet.