Implementing Play Therapy with Groups Contemporary Issues in Practice

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. Applying theoretical and empirical information to address treatment challenges, each chapter focuses on a specific treatment issue and explores ways the reader can implement group work within their play therapy work. Chapters also provide contemporary evidence-based clinical information in providing group therapy with specific populations such as working with children who have been exposed to violence, trauma, adoption, foster care, those who are chronically medically fragile, and more. This book will bring awareness to, and provide easily implemented play therapy knowledge and interventions for, child and family therapists who work in a range of settings including schools, hospitals, residential treatment centers, and community mental health settings.

ForewordAthena A. Drewes Introduction and Foundation of Group Play TherapyClair Mellenthin & Holly Willard Part I: Group Play Therapy Practice Models Chapter 1: Constructing Together: Therapeutic Applications of LEGO® Serious Play®Mary Anne Peabody Chapter 2: Humanistic Sandtray with Preadolescent GroupsSteven A. Armstrong, Ryan D. Foster, & Donna L. Hickman Chapter 3: The Caped Crusaders: Using Superheroes in a Play Therapy Group for AdolescentsSophia Ansari Chapter 4: AutPlay® Therapy Play Groups for High Needs Autistic ChildrenTracy Turner-Bumberry & Robert Jason Grant Chapter 5: Digital Group Play Therapy Jessica Stone & Michael Ehrig Chapter 6: Camp Nurture: An Immersion in Key Components of TraumaPlay®Paris Goodyear-Brown, Kate Worley, & Jennifer Rubens Chapter 7: Our Village Play Therapy Groups: An Integrative Design for Both In-Personand Telehealth SettingsMonica Adimari Fyfe Part II: Clinical Settings Chapter 8: Group Play Therapy in SchoolsTimothy "T.J." Schoonover &Kristi Perryman Chapter 9: Group Play in Hospitals: Child Life PlayroomsJoan Turner & Jessika Boles Chapter 10: Group Play Therapy in Therapeutic Residential CareDavid A. Crenshaw & Domonique Garrett Chapter 11: Group Play Therapy in Outpatient SettingsClair Mellenthin Part III: Special Populations Chapter 12: Group Play Therapy with Military Connected Children and FamiliesAnne L.Stewart & Lennis G. Echterling Chapter 13: Early Play-Based Interventions for Children Following Disastrous Events: From Principles to PracticeJanine Shelby Chapter 14: Play Therapy Groups with Children of Divorce: A Jungian ApproachEric J. Green & Karen Herdzik Chapter 15: Play Therapy Group Work with Sexually Abused ChildrenSueann Kenney-Noziska Chapter 16: Play Based Group Retreat for Adoptive FamiliesTheresa Fraser Chapter 17: Play Therapy Groups with Neurodiverse ChildrenCary McAdams Hamilton & Sarah M. Moran Chapter 18: Play Therapy Group SupervisionJennifer Taylor ConclusionJessica Stone Index

Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S, is an international speaker, author, and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. Clair is the author of the bestselling book Attachment Centered Play Therapy. She is the director of Child & Adolescent Services at Wasatch Family Therapy in Utah. Jessica Stone, PhD, is an international speaker, clinical supervisor, and registered play therapist. She is the co-creator of The Virtual Sandtray®©and the developer of Digital Play Therapy.TM Robert Jason Grant, EdD, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Advanced Certified Autism Specialist, and is the creator of AutPlay® Therapy. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Association for Play Therapy and is an accomplished author, advocate, and trainer.