TY - BOOK AU - Sweeney,Daniel S. AU - Landreth,Garry L. TI - Counseling children through the world of play SN - 9781579106546 AV - BV639.S974.C686 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - Eugene, Oregon PB - Wipf and Stock Publishers KW - Children KW - Pastoral counseling of KW - Counseling of KW - Play KW - Psychological aspects KW - Play therapy KW - Church work with children KW - Pastoral counseling KW - Religious Counseling KW - Children Counseling N1 - Previously published by Tyndale House Publishers, 1997; 1 (pages 273-292) and index; PART ONE: ENTERING THE CHILD'S WORLD --; The child's world --; Children communicate through play; PART TWO: PLAY American SamoaTHERAPY --; Play therapy as a foundational treatment --; Working with parents --; The playroom and materials --; Conducting a child play therapy session --; Therapeutic limit setting --; Using stories, sandplay, and art in play therapy --; Issues in counseling children through play --; Parent training: filial therapy; PART THREE: TREATING CHILDREN WITH DISTINCT NEEDS --; Treating traumatized children --; Treating disruptive behavior problems --; Treating disruptive behavior problems --; Treating anxious and depressed children --; Treating other common childhood problems --; Children and psychopharmacology, written with Ross Tatum, M.D; 2; 1; https://ciu.libwizard.com/f/copyright-requests N2 - Children in today's world sometimes undergo traumatic experiences, such as abuse, divorce of parents, loss of a loved one, school problems. Even trained counselors struggle to find ways to help children process their hurts. This book offers a soundly integrated approach that helps counselors enter the child's world--the world of play--to help them heal. Through play-therapy relationships, counselors, social workers, and other children's workers can help children say with toys what they have difficulty saying with words. Toys become the play therapist's tools to help unlock the healing process for the wounded child ER -