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Creative Play Therapy with Adolescents and Adults: Moving from Helping to Healing
History of Play Therapy
Effectiveness of Play Therapy
Why Play Therapy Works
Play Therapy and Neuroscience
What Is Child-Centered Play Therapy?
What to Expect from This Book
I: Creative Play Therapy and Core Needs
What Is Creative Play Therapy?
Play Therapy with Adolescents and Adults
The Definition of Play Therapy
What Are Expressive Arts?
How Does Creative Play Therapy Work?
What Materials Are Needed for Creative Play Therapy?
Externalizing Internal Emotions
Practical Things to Consider
Know Your Setting Limitations
Know Yourself
Start with One or Two Expressive Options
Creative Play Therapy Toys
Art
Drama
Dance and Movement
Music
Photography
Sand
Writing
Why Is Talking Only Part of the Process?
Traditional Talk Therapy
Reflective Responses
Active Listening
Reflective Responding
Parrot
Paraphrase
Paraphrase with a Hunch
Sitting in Silence
Silence and Creation
Silence and Emotional Expression
Silence to Slow Things Down
Rogers’ Core Conditions of the Therapeutic Relationship
Genuineness
Unconditional Positive Regard
Empathy
What Are Core Needs?
Identifying Core Needs
The Core Needs Pyramid
How Does Understanding Development Grow Empathy?
Why Developmental Models Are Helpful
Limitations of Developmental Models
Five Areas of Development
Physical Development
Psychosocial Development
Cognitive Development
Moral Development
Spiritual Development
Synthesizing the Five Chronological Areas of Development
Identity Development
Putting All Areas of Development Together
II: Stages of Creative Play Therapy
Warm Up
Purpose of the Warm-Up Phase
Using Prompts in the Warm-Up Phase
When and When Not to Suggest a Creative Technique
Creation
The Creation Phase
How to Provide Enough Scaffolding for the Client
Creative Techniques: The Expressive Arts
Prompts
Emotional Expression
How to Process the Creation
Emotional Expression
Prompts
Creative Techniques: Self Care and Mandalas
Somatic Expression
Understanding What Physical Sensation is Telling the Client
Body Scan
Skillful Questioning
Helpful Open-Ended Questions to Understand Somatic Expression
Helpful Closed Questions to Understand Somatic Expression
Physical Feelings and Metaphors
Prompts
Creative Technique: Mirroring
Meaning Making
What Is Meaning Making?
Uncovering Patterns and Themes
Prompts
Creative Technique: And Then What?
Healing
Pulling It All Together
Revisiting Core Needs
Revisiting Emotional and Somatic Expression
Revisiting Meaning Making
Cycling Through the Stages
Creative Technique: Containing the Concern until Later
Prompts
Ending
The Therapist’s Ending
The Client’s Ending
How to Get to “The End”
Preparation and Anticipation
Learn How the Client Prefers to End
Determine What Happens Next
Creating a Contingency
Determining Client Readiness to End
Creative Technique: Recollection and Mementos
Prompts
III: Additional Aspects of Creative Play Therapy
Reevaluating Resistance
Why Do Clients Need to Resist?
How Is Resistance Part of the Work?
Genuineness
When Is Creative Play Therapy Not a Good Treatment Choice?
Creative Application: Procrastination
Creative Technique: The Wall
Exploring Spirituality
Existential Questions
Redeeming Personal Pain to Help Others
Ethics
Creative Application: I Believe
Creative Technique: Nature Mandala
Creative Play Therapy and Self-Care
Challenges of Self-Care
Cost
Effort
Priority
What Is Self-Care?
How to Overcome the Obstacles to Self-Care
Reducing the Cost
Reducing the Effort
Increasing the Priority
Do Your Own Work
Creative Application: Personal Sand Tray
Creative Technique: Predicting Stress, Providing Wellness
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