Play Therapy

Play TherapyThis text is the newest edition of Garry Landreth's comprehensive graduate level textbook on creating therapeutic relationships with children through play. It details his Child Centered Play Therapy model, which stresses the importance of understanding the child's world and perspective. Additionally, it facilitates the play therapy process while allowing therapist and client to fully connect. Professors who have taught courses based on the previous

This text is the newest edition of Garry Landreth's comprehensive graduate-level textbook on creating therapeutic relationships with children through play.  It details his Child-Centered Play Therapy model, which stresses the importance of understanding the child's world and perspective.  Additionally, it facilitates the play therapy process while allowing therapist and client to fully connect.  Professors who have taught courses based on the previous edition will be pleased to find the core message intact with an excellent balance between the  classic text and new material.  The third edition of Play Therapy: The Art of the Relaionship is imporoved by:

An expanded chapter on short-term play therapy

A new, extensive chapter on research with child-centered play therapy

New sections on supervising play therapists, legal and ethical issues, and multicultural principles

Photographs, case vignettes, and sample dialogue, bringing the material to life

Online instructor resrouces

Both educators and trainers who have relied on previous editions of this text as well as students and practitioners reading it for the first time will find it to be invaluable guide.