The purpose of the present study was to explore the effect of both short- and long term Child-Centered Play Therapy on teacher-student relationship stress. Teachers identified 58 students exhibiting emotional and behavioral difficulties who were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups. Students in the short-term intensive play therapy…

Play therapists, school counselors, and play developmentalists have much in common as they work with children in clinical, classroom settings, and after school programs. A strong relationship can be forged among the developmentalists (those trained in early child development/education) and those who work with children in program settings (e.g.,…

Presents an outline of a new addition to early intervention work. Explicates both the content and process of mother/infant games, describing ways in which principles from such games can be useful in therapy with young delayed children. (RH)

Through a theoretical understanding of the primary elaborative process as utilized by a young psychotic child, this article offers some techniques for the therapist to aid the child in an appreciation of the distinction between inner and outer, fantasy and reality. (CS)

Description and examples of 7 ways to use play techniques in psychoanalytically-oriented therapy for emotionally disturbed children. Goals include emotional ventilation, communication, and development of skills. (MH)

Presented at the summer 1969 advanced seminar on Aesthetics in Education held at the Boston University School of Education. (EJS)

Internationally known counselor educator and author Garry Landreth has a passion for filial therapy. In this interview article, Landreth discusses the basic principles and procedures of filial therapy, the 10-week Filial Therapy Training Model he has developed, and the research that he and his colleagues and students are doing on filial therapy.…

As individuals age, they deal with an increasing number of emotional, physical, and environmental losses. One loss older adults encounter is their own and others' deaths. Older adults with dementia may face greater difficulty in understanding and dealing with death-related issues because of cognitive and memory changes. Little literature exists to…

Through a joint research committee sponsored by the Association for Play Therapy (APT) and the American Counseling Association (ACA), The National Play Therapy in Counseling Practices Project conducted the first phase of investigation. Findings offered a snapshot of mental health providers of play therapy, regarding the nature of who they are and…

The objectives of this paper are (1) to present the relationship of play to language and cognition, (2) to describe the stages of play and discuss recent literature about the characteristics of play, and (3) to describe the use of play with the multifaceted goals of cognition, pragmatics, semantics, syntax, and morphology as an intervention…

Discusses the components of rough and tumble play, analyzing three play sequences with a brief summary of the metacommunication taking place in child behavior. (RB)

Description of psychotherapeutic techniques used with two highly-disturbed girls, both 5 1/2 years old. (NH)

Ten elements comprising the basic level of play therapy with children are presented, and the "resort" model, upon which successful play therapy is based, is discussed. (MJB)