Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Highly practical and user friendly, this book presents 58 play therapy techniques that belong in every child clinician's toolbox. The expert authors draw from multiple theoretical orientations to showcase powerful, well-established approaches applicable to a broad range of childhood problems. Activities, needed materials, and variations of each technique are succinctly described. Of critical importance for today's evidence-based practitioner, each chapter also includes a historical perspective on the technique at hand, a rationale explaining its therapeutic power, and a review of relevant empirical findings. The book enables readers to determine which strategies are appropriate for a particular child or group and rapidly incorporate them into practice"-- Provided by publisher.

"In essence, play therapy is the use of the therapeutic powers of play to promote healing and growth in clients through a professional relationship. The field of play therapy has benefited from a very wide range of creative play therapy techniques for children. Only a few, however, have stood the test of time and remained popular for an extended period of time. We consider the select group of time honored techniques in this book to have reached classic status since they have remained popular in their original form or in recent variations for at least three decades. In a number of cases, the techniques in this book have been popular for centuries and even millenniums"-- Provided by publisher.