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Theraplay a pioneering application of attachment theory to clinical work—helps parents learn and practice how to provide the playful engagement, empathic responsiveness, and clear guidance that lead to secure attachment and lifelong mental health in their children. This third edition of the groundbreaking book Theraplay shows how to use play to engage children in interactions that lead to competence, self–regulation, self–esteem, and trust. Theraplay′s relationship–based approach is uniquely designed to help families facing today′s busy and often chaotic lifestyle challenges form joyful, loving relationships.
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Using Play to Develop Trust and Joy in Parent–Child Relationships Theraplay, modeled on the natural, playful patterns of healthy interaction between parent and child, helps troubled families develop the responsiveness and structure vital to a child′s development. Theraplay shows parents how to use play to communicate love and authority and to engage their children in interactions that develop competence, self–esteem and trust. Booth′s revised edition brilliantly integrates Jernberg′s innovative approach with recent research on attachment and the effect of stress and trauma on child development. In a clear, forceful style and illustrated by vivid therapeutic vignettes, Theraplay demonstrates how this creative and joyful treatment can help even the most challenging children and their families.
"This well–organized, detailed book . . . will delight both neophyte and experienced professional. . . . Theraplay has the capacity to transform [an] insecure parent–child relationship . . . to one of mutual pleasure and trust." ––Miriam Elson, author, Self Psychology in Clinical Social Work
"This is a much–needed resource, and I highly recommAnd it." ––Charles E. Schaefer, professor of psychology, Fairleigh Dickinson University
"Theraplay should be mandatory for every child placed in foster care or an adoptive home." ––Kevin O′Connor, author, The Play Therapy Primer
"Booth has made explicit the reality of attachment–based play′ that is Theraplay. She has gone further than the first edition in integrating parents into the treatment. . . . By giving parents the skills to take the interventions home, she enables Theraplay to be a much more effective brief therapy method." ––Daniel A. Hughes, author, Facilitating Developmental Attachment
"Helping to create, restructure, or restore a child–parent relationship is an awesome task and a sacred trust. The Theraplay method provides a structure for working with both children and their caregivers to develop robust. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I can not say enough positive things about this outstanding book. As a child therapist, who works with many children in the foster care system and increasing numbers of adopted children, Theraplay has become the single most important tool in my repertoire of therapy modalities. It is very exciting to find a method of working with children that offers practical and impactful strategies to try, which are very different from what you may already be doing. I have also attended the Theraplay trainings at the Theraplay Institute in Chicago and am near completion of the Theraplay Certification process. Even if I am not using Theraplay with a particular child, the foundation and understanding of attachment that this model has given me pervade my work. Parents of children that I am using Theraplay with often report dramatic progress in their child's behavior and attachment to them in a short period of time. One father of an internationally adopted child that I am using Theraplay with said it best. He stated, "We finally came to realize that our child was not going to be able to fully benefit from all the supportive services we were taking him to (including occupational therapy, speech therapy, and physical therapy) until he was able to form an attachment with us. Theraplay has allowed that attachment to form and we are now seeing much more progress in other areas of development."
The model of using parents as co-therapists, as presented in the book, is very empowering to parents and the parents I use Theraplay with have many positive comments to say about this. One foster/adoptive mother recently told me she thinks that every foster or adoptive parent should be required to learn Theraplay. She adds "It has given me a whole new understanding of my adopted children and their needs."
Theraplay is not only useful for children with attachment and bonding difficulties, but I have found it particularly useful for children diagnosed with ADHD and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. This is a comprehensive book that you will refer back to again and again.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
We were recommended this book by our adoption agency as a good start to understanding theraplay techniques. Whilst it manages to convey the fun playful approach needed to engage and connect with traumatised children, much of the book is not aimed at parents. In fact much of the book is preoccupied with the setting up and organising of formal therapy sessions and is not relevant to everyday parents in the home. Furthermore, its attitude towards parents often seems to make them seem secondary to the therapist, implying that the childs most important relationship should be with the therapist not the parent. As an adoptive parent and professional who has worked with traumatised children for the last ten years I also found its 'mirical healing' promises somewhat far fetched. I do not dispute that many children can be reached through play therapy, but suggesting that they are 'cured' of their attachment disorders after a few hour long therapy sessions is unbelievable. Read it by all means, but don't let it be all you read on the subject and don't take it too literally.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Found this fairly heavy going, I'm a parent not a child development professional, but well worth the effort to read it. I think best to also get the more practical 'Fun To Grow On' which gives brief explanation of the theory and explains lots of techniques for families to do at home.
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very useful
I had some idea about Theraplay previously but have found this book very easy to read and so far helpful. Read more
Published 11 months ago by jb
To go with the training...
This book was given to us to accompany the training, so I would only recommed it to those who are or have done the initial Theraplay training otherwise the concepts might be... Read more
Published 14 months ago by aqua_butterfly
Interesting but questionable
I was recommended this book by a social worker who specialises in adoption, and was interested as my children are adopted, and because I am a counsellor myself and am training to... Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2004
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