Jason Aronson, Inc.
Pages: 322
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-56821-150-3 • Hardback • October 1994 • $130.00 • (£100.00)
978-1-4616-2848-4 • eBook • October 1994 • $123.50 • (£95.00)
Charles Schaefer, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director, Psychological Services Center, Fairleigh Dickenson University, Hackensack, New Jersey. Dr. Schaefer is the founder and chairman of the Board of the Association for Play Therapy, a national organization that includes international members. He maintains a private practice with children and their families in Hackensack.
Lois Carey, M.S.W., is the Director of the Center for Sandplay Studies, in Upper Grandview, New York, where she also has a private therapy practice with children and families.
The good news of Family Play Therapy is that dysfunctional family patterns can be altered and children can be extricated from 'problem' roles by the wise melding of various family therapy and play therapy techniques. Mental health professionals will be enlightened, intrigued, and, hopefully, stimulated by this timely and sage text edited by Charles Schaefer and Lois Carey. This large collection of chapters by practitioners from many fields offers creative therapeutic styles that will educate and empower therapists to be more innovative in their work with children and families whatever their training and experience.
— Emily Marlin, M.S.W.
This book provides the missing, crucial link to unite child and family therapy. It gives family therapists practical information about using play therapy techniques, and offers play therapists a rationale and guidelines for including families in a child's therapy sessions. This is a much-needed text that promises to make a major impact on the practice of both child and family therapy.
— Nancy Boyd Webb, D.S.W.