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Child-Centered Play Therapy
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VanFleet, Rise; Sywulak, Andrea E.; Sniscak, Cynthia Caparosa – Guilford Publications, 2010
Highly practical, instructive, and authoritative, this book vividly describes how to conduct child-centered play therapy. The authors are master clinicians who explain core therapeutic principles and techniques, using rich case material to illustrate treatment of a wide range of difficulties. The focus is on nondirective interventions that allow…
Descriptors: Play Therapy, Children, Counseling Techniques, Intervention
The Body Tells the Story: Using Art to Facilitate Children's Narratives
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Hecker, Lorna; Lettenberger, Cassandra; Nedela, Mary; Soloski, Kristy L. – Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2010
This article illustrates an art activity for use in psychotherapy with children or adolescents. The purpose of the activity is to utilize creativity to increase problem solving for child clients and to allow their narratives to expand therapeutically. The processing of the activity allows the art to be transformed into language, thereby involving…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Psychotherapy, Art Activities, Art Therapy
I Am the Author Books (ITABs).
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Kahn, Beverly B.; Kahn, Wallace J. – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1990
Describes writing process of student-authored books, I Am the Author Books (ITAB), designed to move children through therapeutic process by assigning them to be experts in their own problem areas. Describes process of creating ITAB by narrating actual book guided by one of the authors working with fourth grade girl whose preschool-age sibling had…
Descriptors: Children, Coping, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role
Activities to Enhance Social, Emotional, and Problem-Solving Skills: Seventy-Six Activities that Teach Children, Adolescents, and Adults Skills Crucial to Success in Life. Second Edition
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Malouff, John M.; Schutte, Nicola S. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2007
This book provides descriptions of 76 engaging activities that can be used to teach children, adolescents, and adults valuable social, emotional, and problem-solving skills. Some of the skills taught include identifying and expressing one's own emotions, identifying emotions in others, coping with stressors, making and keeping friends, setting…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Problem Solving, Coping, Interpersonal Competence
Guiding the Family: Practical Counseling Techniques.
Grunwald, Bernice Bronia; McAbee, Harold V. – 1985
This book, intended as a text for therapists and counselors in family counseling, is based on principles of Adlerian psychology. The first chapter examines Adlerian theory and family counseling. Basic principles of individual psychology are applied to family counseling, and the goals of children with disturbing behavior are discussed. Reasons why…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Children, Counseling Techniques
Stress Associated with Handicapped Children: Guidelines for Family Management.
Tynan, Donna D.; Fritsch, Ronald E. – 1987
The literature on coping with stressful life events and the literature on parental issues related to the birth of a handicapped child suggest that such variables as understanding of the nature, intensity, and duration of parental responses figure prominently in their adjustment to the disability. The development of support programs designed to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Child Rearing, Children, Coping