Relationships Matter

Play is to the child what verbalization is to the adult-it is a medium for expressing feelings, exploring relationships, describing experiences and disclosing wishes. Revised and updated, this second edition of the award-winning Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship provides comprehensive and detailed information for creating therapeutic relationships with children and facilitating the play therapy process. Guidelines, transcripts and case examples are provided for governing sensitive issues at every stage of the therapeutic process, from the first meeting to the end of the relationship.

User Reviews about Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship

I received my book in nice shape and the timing was good as well. I would order other books in the future if needed. -- Play Therapy The Art of Relationship

One of the best books for play therapy on the market ... if you are working with kids in play therapy ... this book is a must for your library! -- Landreth

This is an excellent primary text or personal reference for gaining a thorough and balanced overview of play therapy. It not only covers the theory behind play therapy but also contains the practical nuts and bolts of how to do play therapy and what items are helpful in doing play therapy. I use this as the primary text in a course I teach called Counseling the Distressed Child. I highly recommend this book if you were to only get one book on play therapy. -- Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship

I needed this book for class. It is very informative and answers many questions about the field of Play Therapy. It is by a well-known author, so you can consider any of his books a good choice to purchase. -- Interesting

Much like any other piece of literature the Landreth text tends to hold a bias. Although it adequately accounts for the basic assumptions of other approaches to play therapy this particular text tends to err on the side of the Client-Centered approach. So, if you're not keen on Axline and, to a lesser extend, Rogers, this text may not be for you. -- A more than sufficient survey of the techniques of therapeutic play