Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy

Contents

• Part I - Play
• 1. Play and childhoods: how are the relationships between researching play and children changing?
• 2. Lila: teachers play through the eyes of a child
• 3. Cultivating playfulness in the workplace
• 4. Playing memories: exploring the notion of play amongst participants of participatory theatre in Cameroon
• 5. The ness of being playful
• 6. Stages not ages: The emerging Developmental Play approach for differently abled children
• 7. Playful workshop toolkit for professionals working with children
• 8. Lilaloka: a place of play
• 9. Play with children in hospitals: the situation in Japan
• Part II - Therapeutic Play
• 10. Playwork as a therapeutic tool
• 11. Playfulness and other worlds: re-visiting A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 12. 'The Magic Drum' in action: the use of therapeutic play group intervention to foster positive peer interaction among children with diverse abilities and needs in an international primary school in Prague
• 13. Planning successful therapeutic material engagements: charting a course from danger to the safe zone
• 14. Let's get Messy! enhancing and enriching children's learning and development through messy play
• 15. Neuro-Dramatic Play and a hero's journey: a play-based approach in a UK junior school
• Part III - Play in Therapy
• 16. Using play as a counselling tool in a multicultural society
• 17. The Isle of Silliness: play and dramatherapy with addicted Palestinian men in Israel as a way of balancing in patriarchal society
• 18. Grannies on the run: into the wild spaces of autistic play
• 19. "Some body rlse": Harlequin's journey in forensic sandplay and gender dysphoria
• 20. Playing together: the use of directed joint engagement activities in Dyadic Art Psychotherapy
• 21. The "terror of the school" learns to play
• 22. The international appeal of Filial Therapy: values, methods and its use in Turkey to empower children and families and the therapists who assist them
• 23. The color of play: breaking through walls within a child's world
• 24. Listening to Pan: helping children who panic
• 25. The story of Angela
• Part IV - Play Therapy
• 26. Swings or roundabouts? The case for using a combined play therapy and dramatherapy approach as an effective intervention with children at risk of exclusion
• 27. Creative interventions with children and adolescents with complex trauma
• 28. Play therapy/therapeutic play with children with autism: the journey: wait, watch and wonder
• 29. Play therapy: the ideal environment for play development and the repair of play deprivation
• 30. Therapeutic use of self and the Play Therapy Dimensions Model
• 31. What am I doing out here?! Exploring the challenge for play therapy in the outdoors
• 32. School-based play therapy
• 33. The healing power of playful animals: Animal Assisted Play Therapy (R) as an intervention for childhood bullying in South Africa
• 34. Creating a safe space in a safe place: working creatively with young people in a secure setting
• 35. Healing through therapeutic play in Malaysia Afterword Closure