101 More Favorite Play Therapy Techniques

480 Pages·2001·10.87 MB·English

by  Heidi Kaduson (ed.)

101 More
Favorite
Play Therapy
Techniques
A Series of Books Edited by
Charles E. Schaefer
Cognitive-Behavioral Helping Parents Solve Their
Play Therapy Children's Behavior Problems
Susan M. Knell Charles E. Schaefer and Andrew R. Eisen, Eds.
Play Therapy in Action: Clinical Handbook of Sleep
A Casebook Jor Practitioners Disorders in Children
Terry Kottrnan and Charles E. Schaefer, Eds. Charles E. Schaefer, Ed.
Family Play Therapy Clinical Handbook of Anxiety
Charles E. Schaefer and Lois Carey, Eds. Disorders in Children
and Adolescents
The Quotable Play Therapist
Andrew R. Eisen, Christopher A. Kearney,
Charles E. Schaefer and and Charles E. Schaefer, Ws.
Heidi Gerard Kaduson, Eds.
Practitioner's Guide to Treating
Childhood Encopresis
Fear and Anxiety in Children
and Enuresis
and Adolescents:
Charles E. Schaefer
A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
~ndriwR. Eisen and Christopher A. Kearney
The Therapeutic Powers of Play
Charles E. Schaefer, Ed.
Words of Wisdom
for Parents:
Play Therapy Techniques
Tirne-Tested Thoughts on How to Raise Kids
Donna Cangelosi and
Charles E. Schaefer, Ed.
Charles E. Schaefer, Eds.
The Playing Cure:
Children in Residential Care:
Individualized P1a.y Therapy,f or
Critical Issues in Treatment
Specific Childhood Problerns
Charles E. Schaefer and
Heidi Gerard Kaduson, Donna Cangelosi,
Arthur Swanson, Eds.
and Charles E. Schaefer, Eds.
The Therapeutic Use of Child's Play
101 Favorite
Charles E. Schaefer, Ed.
Play Therapy Techniques
Refusal to Speak: Heidi Gerard Kaduson and
Charles E. Schaefer, Eds.
TreatnuMt of Selective Mutism in Children
Sheila Spasaro and Charles E. Schaefer, Eds.
101 More Favorite
Sandplay: Play Therapy Techniques
Therapy with Children and Families Heidi Gerard Kaduson and
Lois Carey Charles E. Schaefer,E ds.
Short-Term Psychotherapy Groups Saying Goodbye in
for Children: Child Psychotherapy:
Adupting Group Procemf or SpeclJic Problerns P!atmrwd, Unpianrwd, a dP rwnature Enclings
Charles E. Schaefer, Ed. Donna Cangelosi
101 More
Favorite
Play Therapy
Techniques
Edited by
Heidi Gerard Kaduson, Ph.D.
Charles E. Schaefer, Ph.D.
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101 more favorite play therapy techniques / Heidi Gerard Kaduson, Charles E.
Schaefer.
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ISBN 0-7657-0299-1 ISBN 978-0-7657-0299-9
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11. Title: One hundred and one more favorite play therapy techniques. 111. Schaefer,
Charles E. IV. Title.
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Dedicated to
all the children
who inspire us

CONTENTS
Preface xv
Contributors xvii
Section One: Storytelling Techniques
1. Garbage Bag Technique
Heidi Gerard Kaduson
2. TV Show Storyboard
Loretta Gallo-Lopez
3. Candie Canary's New Home
leanine Austin
4. Knights and Dragons
Judith Hart
5. Take-Home Stories from the Playroom
Mary Margaret Kelly
6. Super Me!
Emily Nickerson
7. Metaphorical Stories
Herbert Goetze
8. The Little Leaf Transition Ritual
Jay Cerio
9. Reading on the "Porch Swing"
Joan M. Doherty and Roger D. Phillips
10. Spontaneous Metaphor
William Walter Jenkins
11. Storytelling via Cartoons
Mary Ann Drake and David Drake
12. Expressing Grief through Storytelling
Hilda R. Glazer and Donna Marcum
viii CONTENTS
Section Two: Expressive Arts Techniques 59
13. Role Playing with Play Doh
Nancy M. Schultz
14. The Parent-Child Clay Animal Activity
Carla Sharp
15. Inside-Outside Masks
Theresa A. Kruczek
16. School Backpack Kit
Mary Anne Peabody
17. Reverse Report Card
Mary Anne Peabody
18. Drawing for the Child
Deborah B. Vilas
19. Feeling Stickers
Liana Lowenstein
20. The Gingerbread Person Feelings Map
Athena A. Drewes
21. The "Feeling" and "Doing" Thermometer: A Technique
for Self-Monitoring
James M. Briesmeister
22. Medicine Bags
Theresa A. Kruczek
23. Feeling Flowers/Healing Garden
Tamra Greenberg
24. Sharing Feelings through Clay
Debra Atchison
25. Weights and Balloons
Celia Linden
26. The Child's Own Touching Rules Book
Frances L. Strick
27. Party Hats on Monsters: Drawing Strategies to Enable Children
to Master Their Fears
David A. Crenshaw
28. The Feelings-Thoughts-Needs Inventory
Barbara A. Turner
CONTENTS
29. Variation of the Family Attribute Game
Erika L. Surkin
30. How Am 1 Doing? A Self-Evaluation Technique
Ellen M. Stickney
31. The Nightmare Box: Empowering Children through Dreamwork
Deborah Armstrong Hickey
32. The Titie of Therapy
Dee Ray
33. Be True to Thyself
Richard Bromfield
34. Dreaming Pots: A Natural Healing Approach for Helping
Children with Fears and Traumas
Joyce C. Mills
35. The Draw-Your-Bad-Dream Technique
Nancy Boyd Webb
36. Color Your Feelings!
Hilda R. Glazer
37. Postcards in Motion
Paris Goodyear-Brown
Section Three: Game Play Techniques
38. Emotional Bingo
Heidi Gerard Kaduson
39. The Photograph Game of Emotions
Harvey Payne
40. The Feeling Checkers Game
Michael Kantrowitz
41. Monster
Steve Harvey
42. Volcano
Steve Harvey
43. The Bat-a-Feeling Game
Joyce Meagher
44. The Topple-a-Feeling Game
Joyce Meagher