Description
| Product ID: | 9781849054089 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Play Therapy in the Outdoors |
| Subtitle: | Taking Play Therapy out of the Playroom and into Natural Environments |
| Authors: | Author: Alison Chown |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Creative therapy / Expressive therapies, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A therapist's guide to the theory and practice of incorporating the outdoors and natural world into play therapy. The frameworks for practice are grounded in research and include adaptations for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties, complex social, emotional and behavioural problems, and parent child attachment work. Championing the therapeutic power of nature, this book explores why outdoor play therapy offers children more than being confined to a playroom and how practice can be moved into the natural environment in a safe and ethical way. By using outdoor environments, the traditional dyadic relationship between the therapist and the child becomes a triadic one in which the therapeutic process is enhanced and the environment for the play therapy is shared and therefore more ''democratic''. The child can develop a lifelong therapeutic attachment to the ''nature mother'' which supports the development of the body self and a growing recognition of our interdependence with nature. The author explores how this is achievable in practice and the benefits to children with a wide range of needs including profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), complex social, emotional and behavioural problems (SEBD) and attachment issues. Synthesising traditions of using outdoor spaces in a therapeutic context with approaches from educational perspectives, this book offers a theoretically-sound and practical framework for taking play therapy into natural environments. |
| Imprint Name: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Publisher Name: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-06-21 |