Play Therapy

Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO®: The Guidebook for Helping Professionals
Our Price: £23.77 (with free UK delivery)
Though based in current research, Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO® is designed for psychologists, social workers, school counselors, occupational therapists, clinical educators and supervisors, coaches, support workers, and other health care providers across the lifespan who wish to use play therapeutically.
This title is due to be published on the 18th December 2023. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.

Play Therapy Dimensions Model: New Insights for Integrative Play Therapists (3rd edition)
Our Price: £29.75 (with free UK delivery)
An updated take on a fundamental decision-making framework, this practical guide explores the dimensions of play therapy and how they apply to today’s practitioner. In-depth case studies illustrate the interplay between theory and practice, demonstrating an integrative case conceptualization approach.

Play Interventions for Neurodivergent Children and Adolescents: Promoting Growth, Empowerment, and Affirming Practices
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This revamped second edition provides several play interventions designed to address a variety of common mental health needs that neurodivergent children face, such as social navigation, regulation, relationship development, anxiety issues, identity struggles, and self-advocacy.
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Nature-Based Play Therapy: A Prescriptive Approach to Integrating the Therapeutic Powers of Nature and Play
Our Price: £26.50 (with free UK delivery)
Nature-Based Play Therapy brings a theoretical basis to arguments for including nature in play therapy and provides tools for that inclusion with a prescriptive model.

The Great Pram Escape: Finding a Forever Family for Baby James
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When Baby James is in need of a home, his loyal and determined Pram takes him along a hopeful journey in search of a loving family. The road gets rocky along the way, but will Pram find Baby James a forever home?

Sandtray Applications to Trauma Therapy: A Model Towards Relational Harmony
Our Price: £22.99 (with free UK delivery)
Sandtray Applications to Trauma Therapy presents the theory behind and the practicalities of using sandtray therapy in treatment with traumatized patients, both children and adults.

Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship
Our Price: £39.14 (with free UK delivery)
This book details Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT), an evidence-based model, which stresses the importance of understanding the child’s world.

Play in Hospitals: Real Life Perspectives
Our Price: £31.99 (with free UK delivery)
Exploring how practitioners make use of play’s developmental benefits and therapeutic healing properties to aid the child’s healthcare journey, this reflective book expands and enhances the knowledge base underlying the practice of play in hospitals.

The Guide to Play Therapy Documentation and Parent Consultation
Our Price: £26.99 (with free UK delivery)
The Guide to Play Therapy Documentation and Parent Consultation guides play therapists through the case-documentation process, from the initial inquiry for services through intake session, diagnosis, treatment planning, session notes, and termination summary.

Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy
Our Price: £36.99 (with free UK delivery)
Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy is the first book of its kind to provide an overview of key aspects of play and play therapy, considering play on a continuum from generic aspects through to more specific applied and therapeutic techniques and as a stand-alone discipline.

Using Art, Play, Metaphor, and Symbol with Hard-to-Reach Young Clients: Reach Out To Me
Our Price: £22.99 (with free UK delivery)
This book demonstrates some of the unique ways in which therapists can help complex and vulnerable clients considered “hard-to-reach”, using arts media and play.

Play Therapy Supervision: A Practical Guide to Models and Best Practices
Our Price: £31.99 (with free UK delivery)
Play therapy is one of the fastest-growing specialty areas in mental health. Understanding the skills, knowledge, and strategies that make play therapy supervision effective is essential in supporting the integrity and needs of a thriving field.

Playful Education: Using Play Therapy Strategies to Elevate Your Classroom
Our Price: £22.94 (with free UK delivery)
Playful Education provides a guide for you to activate the powers of play to boost your teaching practices and increase your effectiveness as an educator.

Child-Centered Play Therapy: A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Relationships with Children (2nd Edition)
Our Price: £44.99 (with free UK delivery)
Designed for professionals adding play therapy to their practices as well as for graduate students, the second edition of Child-Centered Play Therapy is comprehensive, engaging, and practical.

Personal Process in Child-Centred Play Therapy
Our Price: £23.50 (with free UK delivery)
With a unique and distinct perspective on the therapeutic process, this book is specifically intended for both trainee and experienced play therapists, but will be relevant to all psychotherapists involved in working therapeutically with children and young people.

Puppet-Assisted Play Therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice
Our Price: £15.99 (with free UK delivery)
Puppet-Assisted Play Therapy is a valuable addition to the library of any therapist, social worker, counsellor, teacher, or other professional interested in play and puppets with children.

Dibs in Search of Self: Personality Development in Play Therapy
Our Price: £8.99 (with free UK delivery)
This title presents the story of one little boy and his journey through childhood life up to his mid-teens, and also an insight into psychotherapy – how it works and what it can mean to people on a practical level.

Multicultural Play Therapy: Making the Most of Cultural Opportunities with Children
Our Price: £25.99 (with free UK delivery)
Multicultural Play Therapy fills a wide gap in the play therapy literature. Each chapter helps expand play therapists’ cultural awareness, humility, and competence so they can work more effectively with children of diverse cultures, races, and belief systems.

Implementing Play Therapy with Groups: Contemporary Issues in Practice
Our Price: £27.99 (with free UK delivery)
Implementing Play Therapy with Groups is a new and innovative edited book bringing together experts from across the field of play therapy to explore how to facilitate group play therapy across challenging settings, diagnoses, and practice environments.

Advanced Play Therapy: Essential Conditions, Knowledge, and Skills for Child Practice
Our Price: £29.87 (with free UK delivery)
Current play therapy resources offer details on how to conduct play therapy, but are limited in addressing the challenges that develop when therapists conduct play therapy with real-life clients.

Digital Play Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide to Comfort and Competence
Our Price: £27.50 (with free UK delivery)
The newly updated Digital Play Therapy focuses on the responsible integration of technology into play therapy during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Play Therapy and Telemental Health: Foundations, Populations, and Interventions
Our Price: £25.50 (with free UK delivery)
Play Therapy and Telemental Health gives clinicians the tools they need to bring their therapy sessions online.

Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children (2nd Edition)
Our Price: £29.99 (with free UK delivery)
A trusted, comprehensive resource, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children’s emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Experts in play, art, music, movement, and drama therapy, as well as bibliotherapy, describe step-by-step strategies for working with children, families, and groups.

How it Feels to be You: Objects, Play and Child Psychotherapy
Our Price: £17.50 (with free UK delivery)
Through the stories of individual children, this book will illuminate the process of creative, play-based child psychotherapy. Each chapter focuses on a particular issue that brings a child or a young person to the therapy room, and explores the use and meaning of particular objects and ‘object games’. Readers will gain a profound understanding through these dynamic stories of therapy channeled through the objects the children choose to bring into play.