Play Therapy: Relationship Development Intervention (Powerful Techniques for the Treatment of Childhood Disorders) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781777440374)

The book covers a range of traumatic experiences, including physical abuse, neglect, domestic violence, natural disasters, and more. It also includes case studies and examples of how play therapy has been successfully used to help children overcome trauma.

With its practical tools and strategies, play therapy for trauma is an essential resource for anyone working with children who have experienced trauma and is seeking to help them heal and thrive.

This book focuses on the following skills

• Attention activities
• Play therapy
• Problem-solving activities
• Mindfulness activities
• Sensory activities
• Socialization
• Season-specific activities

Each one of these stories will reveal surprising aspects of the mysterious, sometimes tragic, sometimes comic, but always illuminating, drama of childhood. At the end of the book, the hope of the author is that you will have a deeper and more compassionate understanding of every child you encounter, including the child who you once were---that little one within you who yearns to be more fully understood, more fully respected, more fully loved.