Play Therapy and Expressive Arts in a Complex and Dynamic World - Opportunities and Challenges Inside and Outside the Playroom

This book offers cutting-edge expertise and knowledge in new and developing play therapy, therapeutic play and expressive arts for families and children in crisis and challenging situations.

List of contents

List of contributors. Introduction. 1. Applying the therapeutic power of play and expressive arts in contemporary crisis work: a process-oriented approach. 2. Integrating creative arts modalities in the playroom and outside: live and remote interventions. 3. Recovering lost play time: principles and intervention modalities to address the psychosocial wellbeing of asylum seekers and refugee children. 4. Tele-Play Therapy: principles of remote interventions using the therapeutic powers of play. 5. Learn to play therapy in high-risk countries: the example of Nigeria. 6. Nature-based Play Therapy interventions in the digital age. 7. Play and expressive arts to enhance professional development and personal growth in challenging contexts.

About the author

Isabella Cassina is Social Worker specialised in International Cooperation (IHEID Geneva) and Migration and Registered Therapeutic Play Specialist (APT Italy). She is International Speaker, Head of Project Management, and Trainer at the International Academy for Play Therapy (INA) in Switzerland.
Claudio Mochi is Clinical Psychologist, Child and Adolescents Psychotherapist, and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor.
Karen Stagnitti is Emeritus Professor at Deakin University, Australia, Occupational Therapist, and Play Therapist.

Summary

This book offers cutting-edge expertise and knowledge in new and developing play therapy, therapeutic play and expressive arts for families and children in crisis and challenging situations.

Product details

• Authors: Isabella Mochi Cassina
• Assisted by: Isabella Cassina (Editor), Claudio Mochi (Editor), Karen Stagnitti (Editor), Stagnitti Karen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032172323
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3217232-3
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, MEDICAL / Pediatrics, EDUCATION / Counseling / General, Paediatric medicine, Education: care & counselling of students, Counselling and care of students, Paediatric medicine / child and adolescent medicine