Play Therapy with Children in Crisis, Third Edition: Individual, Group, and Family Treatment

This matter-of-fact casebook and widely adopted text presents effective, creative approaches to helping children who have experienced such stressful situations as parental death or divorce, abuse and neglect, violence in the school or community, and natural disasters. Even as the book retains the focus on in-depth case studies that made prior editions so well loved, 17 of the 21 chapters are entirely new, and all chapters reflect the latest knowledge on crisis intervention, trauma, and small-term play therapy. Timely new topics include the crisis of parental military deployment, the impact of Hurricane Katrina on families, immigration-correlated trauma, terrorism, and disrupted adoption.