Play Therapy with Adolescents

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Loretta Gallo-Lopez, Charles E. Schaefer
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2005 M04 8 - 296 pages
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 Therapy with Adolescents is the first book to offer a complete variety of play therapy approaches specifically geared toward adolescents. The chapters, written by experts in the field, offer readers entry into the world of adolescents, showing how to make connections and alliances.

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Contents

An Introduction to Play Therapy with Adolescents
1
Adolescent Sand Tray Therapy
16
Theraplay with Adolescents
28
Activity Filial Therapy with Adolescents
46
Transitional Objects in Play Therapy with Adolescents
66
Drama Therapy with Adolescents
79
Adolescent Play Therapy from a Nondirective Stance
94
Play Therapy Techniques to Engage Adolescents
119
Adolescents in Foster Care Grounded Play Therapy
175
Therapy Making Use of Games of Rapport Games of Courtesy and Good Habits
208
Play in the Therapy of Adolescents with Eating Disorders
220
Group Therapy for Adolescents with Anger Problems
237
CognitiveBehavioral Interventions for Bullies Victims and Bystanders
265
Index
285
About the Editors
291
Contributors
293

The Use of Poetry in Play Therapy with Adolescents
141
Metaphorical Thinking with Adolescents
157

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