Chapter 1 - Play Therapy: A Non-directive approach for children and adolescents

The book provides a detailed practical guide to non-directive play therapy as a therapeutic model. Substantially updated since the first edition published ten years ago, it sets play therapy within a Piagetian framework and using numerous case examples, demonstrates that it is a robust and relative...

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Main Authors: Wilson, Kate, Ryan, Virginia
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Published: Elsevier
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/823/
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description The book provides a detailed practical guide to non-directive play therapy as a therapeutic model. Substantially updated since the first edition published ten years ago, it sets play therapy within a Piagetian framework and using numerous case examples, demonstrates that it is a robust and relatively short-term intervention which may be used to address the difficulties of a range of troubled children and young adolescents. New chapters include using drawings, role play and structured exercises in working with children and young people, and using non-directive play therapy within statory and court settings.
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spelling nottingham-8232020-05-04T20:34:55Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/823/ Chapter 1 - Play Therapy: A Non-directive approach for children and adolescents Wilson, Kate Ryan, Virginia The book provides a detailed practical guide to non-directive play therapy as a therapeutic model. Substantially updated since the first edition published ten years ago, it sets play therapy within a Piagetian framework and using numerous case examples, demonstrates that it is a robust and relatively short-term intervention which may be used to address the difficulties of a range of troubled children and young adolescents. New chapters include using drawings, role play and structured exercises in working with children and young people, and using non-directive play therapy within statory and court settings. Elsevier Book Section NonPeerReviewed Wilson, Kate and Ryan, Virginia Chapter 1 - Play Therapy: A Non-directive approach for children and adolescents. In: Play Therapy: A Non-directive Approach for Children and Adolescents. Elsevier, Edinburgh, pp. 1-26.
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