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AutPlay Therapy Handbook: Integrative Family Play Therapy with Neurodivergent Children.
The AutPlay Therapy Handbook provides a thorough explanation and understanding of AutPlay Therapy (an integrative family play therapy framework) and details how to effectively implement AutPlay Therapy for addressing the mental health needs of autistic and neurodivergent children and their families.
This handbook guides the mental health therapist working with children and adolescents through their natural language of play. Opening with an extensive review of the neurodiversity paradigm and ableism, the chapters cover AutPlay Therapy protocol, phases of therapy, assessment strategies, and common need areas along with understanding neurodiversity affirming processes. Additional chapters highlight the therapeutic powers of play, integrative play therapy approaches, understanding co-occurring conditions, working with high support needs, and using AutPlay Therapy to address regulation, sensory, social/emotional, and other mental health concerns that neurodivergent children may be experiencing.
Play-Based Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder and other Developmental Disabilities.
Play-Based Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Developmental Disabilities contains a wide selection of play therapy interventions that can be used with autistic and neurodivergent children and children with developmental disabilities.
Play therapy interventions areas include emotion identification and regulation, social navigation needs, connection and relationship development, sensory processing, and anxiety reduction. This essential resource is packed full of over 60 fun, engaging, play therapy based interventions.
Implementing Play Therapy Groups
Implementing Play Therapy with Groups is a new and innovative edited book bringing together experts from across the field of play therapy to explore how to facilitate group play therapy across challenging settings, diagnoses, and practice environments.
Applying theoretical and empirical information to address treatment challenges, each chapter focuses on a specific treatment issue and explores ways the reader can implement group work within their play therapy work. Chapters also provide contemporary evidence-based clinical information in providing group therapy with specific populations such as working with children who have been exposed to violence, trauma, adoption, foster care, and those who are chronically medically fragile.
This book will bring awareness to, and provide easily implemented play therapy knowledge and interventions for, child and family therapists who work in a range of settings including schools, hospitals, residential treatment centers, and community mental health settings.
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AutPlay Therapy Play and Social Skills Groups: A 10 Session Model
AutPlay® Therapy Play and Social Skills Groups provides practitioners with a step-by-step guide for implementing a social and/or play group to help children and adolescents address needs related to social, connection, and relationship development in a fun and engaging way. This unique 10-Session group model incorporates the AutPlay® Therapy approach focused on relational play therapy methods. Group setup, protocol, and structured play therapy interventions are presented and explained for easy implementation by professionals. Also included are parent implemented interventions which allow parents and/or caregivers to become co-change agents in the group process and learn how to successfully implement AutPlay® groups.
Play Therapy Theories and Perspectives: Diversity of Thought in the Field
This book explores the multitude of thoughts, theories, opinions, methods, and approaches to play therapy in order to highlight the unity and diversity of theory and perspective in the field. Each chapter is a common question related to play therapy to which ten established and experienced play therapists share their thoughts, theoretical perspectives, and opinions. The key characteristics of a well-trained play therapist, the role of technology in play therapy, the importance of speaking the client’s language, and many more frequently asked play therapy questions and topics are explored. The reader will learn about the umbrella of play therapy thought and practice and connect with perspectives that might align with their own theoretical preferences.
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Let’s Play: A Social Connection Book Game.
Let’s Play: A Social Connection Book Game is a creatively designed game in book format. Therapists, school counselors, parents, and other professionals working with children and adolescents can utilize this book to address a variety of issues. Let’s Play follows a psychoeducational model incorporating elements of play therapy, attachment, and relationship development approaches.
This book game addresses a plethora of possible therapy goals including communication, social anxiety, comfort and interaction, engagement and attachment needs, sensory and regulation challenges, and relationship development. Professionals and parents can have a fun and engaging experience with children and adolescents through the connection activities, and can ask follow up questions and role model when participating in the interactive options.
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Understanding Autism: A Neurodiversity Affirming Guidebook for Children and Teens.
Autistic children and teens may have a challenging time understanding their diagnosis and neurodivergence. Professionals and parents may also struggle with understanding autism and neurodiversity. This guidebook is designed to help professionals and parents utilize neurodiversity affirming approaches to explain autism to children and teens. The first half of the guidebook provides a through explanation of neurodiversity and addressing and working with autistic children and teens through a neurodiversity affirming approach. Listening to autistic voices and working from a strengths-based approach are highlighted.
The second half of the book presents a series of worksheets, each covering a different topic related to gaining awareness about self and autism and helping children and teens accurately understand what it means to be autistic.