Play Therapy with Traumatized Children - by Paris Goodyear-Brown (Paperback)

Play Therapy with Traumatized Children: A Prescriptive Approach is a comprehensive model of treatment that incorporates solid theoretical constructs with effective play therapy interventions for traumatized children.

This book provides a safe, systematic journey towards trauma resolution by integrating non-directive and directive approaches.

The author codifies the process in her model, Flexibly Sequential Play Therapy (FSPT), which allows for the uniqueness of each child to be valued while providing a structured approach to healing.

The book demonstrates the process of healing through case histories drawn from fifteen years of clinical practice with traumatized children, covering topics such as creating a safe place for trauma processing, augmenting the child's adaptive coping strategies and soothing their physiology, correcting cognitive distortions, ensuring caregivers are facilitative partners in treatment, inviting gradual exposure to trauma content through play, and creating developmentally sensitive trauma narratives.

This book is a must-read for any mental health professional working with traumatized children.