Child-Centered Play Therapy Research
The Evidence Base for Effective Practice
1. Edition May 2010
528 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
The first book of its kind to provide exhaustive, in-depth coverage of play therapy research
Child-Centered Play Therapy Research: The Evidence Base for Effective Practice offers mental health professionals, school district administrators, community agency administrators, judges, lawyers, child protection caseworkers, and medical professionals a comprehensive discussion of play therapy research studies. Guidance is provided on evidence-based methods, as well as on how future play therapy research should be conducted.
Edited by renowned experts in the field of play therapy, this rich compilation features contributions by child-centered play therapy researchers, with relevant discussion of:
* The history of play therapy research
* A synopsis of current empirical support
* Play therapy research on chronically ill children, child witnesses of domestic violence, and victims of natural disasters, among many other topics
With coverage of important practice guidelines, Child-Centered Play Therapy Research identifies the most prominent and current play therapy research studies, as well as research directions for clinicians to design evidence-based research studies of their own.
SECTION I. OVERVIEW OF PLAY THERAPY RESEARCH
Chapter 1: What the Research Shows About Play Therapy: 21st
Century Update (Dee Ray & Sue Bratton)
SECTION II. RESEARCH IN PLAY THERAPY
Chapter 2: Increased Self-Efficacy: One Reason for Play Therapy
Success (Marijane Fall)
Chapter 3: The Efficacy of Intensive Individual Child-Centered
Play Therapy For Chronically Ill Children (Elizabeth Murphy
Jones & Kara Carnes-Holt)
Chapter 4: Intensive Sibling Group Play Therapy with Child
Witnesses of Domestic Violence (Ashley Tyndall-Lind)
Chapter 5: Effects of Post Earthquake Group Play Therapy with
Chinese Children (Yih-Jiun Shen)
Chapter 6: Play Therapy Effect on Relationship Stress (Dee C.
Ray & Natalya A. Edward)
Chapter 7: Play Therapy Effect on Children with Aggressive
(Pedro J. Blanco)
Chapter 8: Play Therapy with Children Exhibiting ADHD (Dee C.
Ray)
Chapter 9: School Based Group play/Activity Therapy Intervention
with Learning Disabled Preadolescents (Jill Packman)
Chapter 10: School Based Child-Centered Play Therapy with
Hispanic Children (Yvonne Garza)
Chapter 11: Effectiveness of Child-Centered Play Therapy for
Children Referred for Aggression (Brandy Schumann)
Chapter 12: Effectiveness of Child-Centered Play Therapy and
Person Centered Teacher Consultation on ADHD: A Single Case Study
Design (April Schottelkorb)
Chapter 13: Relationship Between Child Centered Play Therapy and
Developmental Levels of Young Children (April Brown)
Chapter 14: Children's Perceptions of Play Therapy
(Eric J. Green)
SECTION III. RESEARCH IN FILIAL
THERAPY
Chapter 15: What the Research Shows about Filial Therapy (Sue
Bratton)
Chapter 16: Filial Therapy with Parents of Chronically Ill
Children (Kristi Tew)
Chapter 17: Filial Therapy with Native Americans on the Flathead
Reservation (Geri Glover)
Chapter 18: Filial Therapy with Chinese Parents (Tommy
Yuen)
Chapter 19: Filial therapy with African American Parents
(Angela Sheely)
Chapter 20: Filial therapy with Hispanic Parents (Peggy
Ceballos)
Chapter 21: High School Students as Therapeutic Agents with
Young Children (Leslie Jones)
Chapter 22: Filial Therapy with Teachers of Deaf and Hard of
Hearing Preschool Children (D. Mike Smith)
Chapter 23: Child-Centered Kinder Training for Teachers of
Pre-School Children Deemed At-Risk (Phyllis Post)
Chapter 24: An Early Mental health Intervention for
Disadvantaged Preschool Children (Mary Morrison & Wendy
Helker)
Chapter 25: Qualitative Studies of Parent Reactions to Filial
Therapy in a Public School (Yuehong Chen Foley)
SECTION IV. FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS FOR PLAY THERAPY
Chapter 26: Future Directions for Play Therapy Research
(Jennifer Baggerly)
Author Index
Subject Index
Professor in the Counselor Education Program at the University of
South Florida. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Supervisor
and a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. She serves on the
Association for Play Therapy (APT) Board of Directors and is former
research chair of APT.
Dee C. Ray, PhD, LPC, RPT-S, is Associate Professor of
Counseling and Higher Education and Director of the Child and
Family Resource Clinic at the University of North Texas in Denton.
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor, National
Certified Counselor, and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor.
Sue C. Bratton, PhD, LPC, RPT-S, is the Director of the
Center for Play Therapy, Associate Professor of Counselor
Education, and the former clinical director of the Counseling
Department at the University of North Texas in Denton. She is a
past president of the Association for Play Therapy and has served
on the APT Board of Directors for six years.