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Empirically based play interventions for children / edited by Linda A. Reddy, Tara M. Files-Hall, and Charles E. Schaefer.

Reddy, Linda A. (Added Author). Files-Hall, Tara M. (Added Author). Schaefer, Charles E. (Added Author).

Summary:

"Empirically Based Play Interventions for Children is a compilation of innovative, well-designed play interventions, presented for the first time in one text. Play therapy is the oldest and most popular form of child therapy in clinical practice and is widely considered by practitioners to be uniquely responsive to children's developmental needs. Play promotes normal child development and can help alleviate emotional and behavioral difficulties. Even so, play-based interventions have often been criticized for the lack of an empirical base to prove their efficacy. In an era of cost-containment, the need to provide evidence of the effectiveness of interventions is increasingly important to gain the general acceptance of third-party payers, mental health professionals, and consumers." "This book answers the call from professional and managed-care organizations for research-based treatment methods with proven efficacy. It describes a range of play interventions that feature flexibility in service delivery and across settings, child populations, and age groups."--BOOK JACKET

Record details

ISBN: 9781433820397
ISBN: 1433820390
Physical Description: xii, 296 pages ; 27 cm
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ch. 1. Announcing empirically based play interventions for children / Linda A. Reddy, Tara M. Files-Hall and Charles E. Schaefer -- Ch. 2. primary mental health project : a play intervention for school-age children / Deborah B. Johnson, JoAnne L. Pedro-Carroll and Stephen P. Demanchick -- Ch. 3. Intensive play therapy with child witnesses of domestic violence / Sarina Kot and Ashley Tyndall-Lind -- Ch. 4. preventive play intervention to foster children's resilience in the aftermath of divorce / JoAnne L. Pedro-Carroll and Sheryl H. Jones -- Ch. 5. Posttraumatic play therapy : the need for an integrated model of directive and nondirective approaches / Janine S. Shelby and Erika D. Felix -- Ch. 6. Guided fantasy play for chronically ill children : a critical review / Melissa R. Johnson and Jennifer L. Kreimer -- Ch. 7. review of play interventions for hospitalized children / William A. Rae and Jeremy R. Sullivan -- Ch. 8. Child ADHD multimodal program : an empirically supported intervention for young children with ADHD / Linda A. Reddy, Craig Springer, Tara M. Files-Hall, Elizabeth Schmelzer Benisz, Yvonne Hauch, Dania Braunstein and Tanya Atamanoff -- Ch. 9. Parent-child interaction therapy for children experiencing externalizing behavior problems / Amy D. Herschell and Cheryl B. McNeil -- Ch. 10. cooperative games intervention for aggressive preschool children / April K. Bay-Hinitz and Ginger R. Wilson -- Ch. 11. Play interventions for young children with autism spectrum disorders / Sally J. Rogers -- Ch. 12. Filial therapy : a critical review / Rise VanFleet, Scott D. Ryan and Shelly K. Smith -- Ch. 13. Present status and future directions for empirically based play interventions for children / Tara M. Files-Hall and Linda A. Reddy.