Therapeutic Engagement of Children and Adolescents: Play, Symbol, Drawing, and Storytelling Strategies

This book addresses the issues that child and adolescent therapists struggle with the most--how to meaningfully engage and create conditions for transformative change with children and teens who are unwilling participants at the outset and who regard any allowed influence by the therapist to be a competitive defeat. To engage these particularly reluctant children, Dr. Crenshaw has expanded the variety of stories offered in a previous book Engaging Resistant Children in Therapy, and added not only drawing, but symbol work and play therapy variations to offers choices and a range of tools to involve them in a meaningful collaborative therapeutic process. The book begins with a review of research and a rationale for using tools consisting of symbolic play for younger children and the therapeutic use of symbols, drawing, and storytelling in order to create portals of entry to reach disconnected children. The book is organized in chapters along major therapeutic goals as follows with specific tools described to meet the objectives: the challenge of therapeutic engagement with reluctant children; relational strategies to engage heart and mind; the therapeutic use of symbols to access the internal and relational worlds of the child or teen; building the therapeutic alliance with strategies that honor strengths; strategies to strengthen the self-observer; facilitating empathy for self and others; strategies to access the pain of social rejection; tools to address grief and traumatic loss; the 'quest for home' strategies; and the delicate operation of facilitating hope. The strategies described were chosen and developed based on and informed by a vast developmental psychopathology.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Crenshaw, David A.

Psychology & Counseling

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Wounded Spirits and Healing Paths

This edited collection by David A. Crenshaw, with contributions from such notables as James Garbarino, Kenneth V. Hardy, and Andrew Fussner, addresses the multiple sources of wounding of children and teens in contemporary life. The book conveys a message of hope and optimism, even in work with children who might be viewed as "impossible cases," because the contributors share a passion for utilizing and building on the strengths of children and families. These authors go beyond treating psychiatric symptoms to address in a more comprehensive way the emotional suffering of youth. The unifying treatment framework for the book is relational therapy. The emotional injuries of children do not develop in a vacuum, but rather in a relational context, and healing must also be embedded in an empathic relationship between the child and the family. Building, repairing, and restoring connections within the family and the larger community, as well as within the therapeutic relationship, opens the door to growth, healing, and meaningful belonging. The stories of triumph over adversity by the courageous children and families in this book will inspire those who daily strive to make a meaningful difference in the lives of hurting youth to renew their commitment to this worthy mission.

Jason Aronson

Bereavement: Counseling the Grieving Throughout the Life Cycle (Continuum Counseling Series)

Offers advice on helping preschool and school age children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly deal with grief

Parenting & Relationships

Crossroad

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Real-life examples of possible grief counseling situations from helping preschoolers, teens, young adult, midlifers and elderly. Ideal resource for all caregivers: social workers, teachers, therapists, nurse, counselors, hospice, parents and relatives

Bereavement: Counseling the Grieving Throughout the Life Cycle

Crossroad Publishing Company

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Religion & Spirituality

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