Play Therapy

Play Therapy

Directed Individual Play in Behaviour Therapy

Introductory book on the application of play therapy in behaviour therapy

From childhood to pre-adolescence, play is an important means to gather new experiences of the world, develop processes to learn and practice new skills, and to assimilate these experiences. This holistic, highly motivated form of learning can be put to use for therapeutic goals to complement work in cognitive behavioural therapy. An introduction to play and play therapy is followed by a concrete description of how to apply play therapy during the therapeutic process. The description draws on many examples from case studies and recorded therapy dialogues. The integration of “directed individual play” within overall behaviour therapy treatment is illustrated for specific disorders.

Target group:
Child and adolescent psychotherapists, psychotherapists in training