This completely revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to using play to communicate with children living with troubles or trauma and their families, and to heal emotional damage. The book gives examples of good practice in different settings and situations, including schools, hospitals, residential settings, families and foster carers. The book also includes a consideration of the support needs of workers and carers. Drawing on psycho dynamic, systemic and attachment theory, this book provides an integrated theory base for using play in therapeutic work with children. It emphasizes non-directive approaches to therapeutic play and play therapy, based on supporting the child's developing self within the safe boundaries provided by the setting and the workers emotional holding and containment. Areas explored include: children with disabilities and illnesses; daily living with abused and traumatized children; helping troubled families; difficulties in early years; children experiencing separation, loss and bereavement; and, children moving to new families
Author John Arden has drawn on his years of work in Brain Based Therapy and related it to specific areas of our daily lives. He offers way to improve everything from mood, memory, relationships and sleeping habits. If you want to change your life you need to change your brain. These brain based understandings can also help in your work with others. Other titles by Dr. Arden include: "Brain-Based Therapy-Adult", "Brain-Based Therapy-Child", "Improving Your Memory for Dummies" and "Heal Your Anxiety Workbook". Dr. Arden is a leader in integrating... More info
Why and how therapy with even the most challenging kids can work. Collecting the best "stories of change and transformation" from her colleagues around the world, internationally acclaimed researcher on child trauma Lenore Terr explores diagnoses from PTSD to self-mutilation to tackle a fundamental question facing child therapists: Just how and when does therapy work, and what happens to make it work? This book illustrates both the art and the science of psychotherapy with children and adolescents. Students, practitioners and parents will all marvel and learn from the therapeutic turning points... More info
The contributors of this title at the forefront of appreciative inquiry and have based The Appreciative Organization on their diverse experiences in organizational life,. The appreciative construction of meaning is essential to the efficacy of an organization and the fulfilment of its participants. In clear and direct language, the volume treats the challenges of decision making, leadership, group functioning, personnel evaluation, and the relationship of the organization to its context. More info
