Creative Play Therapy with Adolescents and Adults: Moving from Helping to Healing - 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