Product Description: Praise for the first edition: 'Ann Cattanach writes with enormous empathy and warmth, and with a refreshing lack of sentimentality... [This] is an unpretentious and optimistic book, and a very positive addition to recent publications...read more

Product Description: Narrative play is a way of communicating with children using imaginative stories and narratives to share and make sense of life events. This book describes using narrative play therapeutically with children who have lived in multiple families, children who have problems with social understanding and children who have learning difficulties...read more

Product Description: Narrative play is a way of communicating with children using imaginative stories and narratives to share and make sense of life events. This book describes using narrative play therapeutically with children who have lived in multiple families, children who have problems with social understanding and children who have learning difficulties...read more

When Malpas is taught to be a rude, angry dragon, he finds himself unloved and without friends until he kidnaps Haley, a maiden, and ends up helping her to help others who are lonely.

Product Description: Ann Cattanach has worked with children as a therapist for many years. She has written books about play therapy, drama therapy and narrative therapy. She now lives in the Highlands of Scotland. Her house lies between a fairy hill and a witch's hill...read more

Product Description: Play therapy is a popular and important intervention for many children with psychological problems and traumatic life experiences. Written by a renowned expert in the field, Introduction to Play Therapy provides a basic grounding in play therapy intervention, answering questions such as:· Who can play therapy help?· What are the best settings for play therapy?· How should you train in play therapy?A variety of models of working with play are explored, and an evaluation of the meaning of childhood is discussed in clear language, illustrated with clinical examples...read more

Product Description: Identity is formed through the narration of experience, and children who experience difficult life events may need help in forming and expressing their own narratives. Play therapy can be a very appropriate way of facilitating this kind of expression...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Arts therapists are becoming increasingly interested in process as it is manifested in their work. The multiplicity of levels at which process operates is the theme of this new book. What happens during a therapy session is examined, as are the client's response, which is experienced through the medium of the art form itself, and the evolution of the relationship between therapist and client...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This study explores the potential of using stories to communicate with children in therapy. The natural resilience of the children allows them to distance themselves from events and create another "reality" in the stories where children can communicate emotionally without directly involving their emotions. The author seeks to show how through encouraging the stories and participating in them we can nurture both the children and their recovery process, and enable them to learn to live with their experiences. Examples of stories by both childrn and professional authors are spread throughout the book to reinforce the argument that stories are a vital part of understanding the emotional and mental state of a child.

Product Description: This book explores the use of drama as a way to help people with special needs make sense of their life situation and develop personal self-esteem. The author describes ways of setting up groups and particular problems to look out for...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Play is one of the most creative opportunities open to a child, and is becoming of increasing interest to therapists and others in the caring professions. This book examines how children develop skills in play as a way of being creative, and how they can use play as a therapeutic process by mirroring their own life experiences in their games...read more