Written by two authors with a combined experience of more than fifty years in the residential treatment of severely aggressive-and often traumatized-children, this book has proven invaluable to new as well as seasoned child practitioners. The chapters cover the nuts and bolts of play therapy with this extremely challenging clinical population, including the therapeutic alliance, aims of play therapy with aggressive children, setting limits on destructive and obtrusive behaviors, typical play themes of aggressive children, and developing distancing and displacement through playful action and through teaching, modeling, and structuring action play. Other chapters cover such topics as: how to create more mature defenses and calming strategies; the role of interpretation; the use of spontaneous drawings as a bridge to fantasy play; specific drawing techniques to create access to the inner world of children; how to teach and model pro-social skills and the language of feeling; and how to facilitate affect expression and modulation, contained reenactment of trauma, and children's ability to mourn tangible as well as intangible, unacknowledged and invisible losses. Later chapters cover the therapeutic process and techniques to facilitate termination. The authors introduce the Play Therapy Decision Grid, which is intended to guide the therapist into the levels of therapy best suited for the child at any given point based on the child's resources and the anxiety engendered by the therapy.

A Handbook of Play Therapy with Aggressive Children

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mordock, John B.

Crenshaw clinical director of the Children’s Home of Poughkeepsie, David A.

Mental Health

Jason Aronson, Inc.

The defiant child presents a challenge to the therapist's patience as well as to his skill. To help clinicians grow in both, this skillfully written volume by Dr. John B. Mordock draws on more than twenty-five years of experience with troubled children and their families. The author begins with the premise that children are children first and troubled children second, framing the work with a clear understanding of developmentally appropriate behaviors. Principles are illustrated with wonderful concrete examples, so that a beginning therapist can find the answers to such questions as what to do when the child continually subjects you to verbal abuse, or when the child won't leave the counseling room. Aggressive and defiant youngsters have made noncompliance a way of life. Conversations with such children, specifically aimed at counseling them, will be of significant help to social workers, teachers, and therapists. This is a guidebook for adults who seek to help children who are depressed, defiant, timid, or otherwise troubled. It is wise, readable, humorous, and filled with practical tips. Most importantly, it offers hope without false promises.

Counseling the Defiant Child: A Basic Guide to Helping Troubled and Aggressive Youth

Van Ornum, William

Understanding and Treating the Aggression of Children: Fawns in Gorilla Suits provides a thorough review of the theoretical and research basis of the techniques and interventions in the treatment of aggressive and sometimes violent children. This is not a dry and sterile academic review but rather one that comes from work directly in the therapy room with thousands of hurting and in many cases traumatized children. One cannot read this book without being deeply moved and touched by the pain of these children and yet also be buoyed by their courage and willingness to persevere against formidable barriers.

Understanding and Treating the Aggression of Children: Fawns in Gorilla Suits

Psychology & Counseling

Counseling Children: Basic Principles for Helping the Troubled and Defiant Child (Continuum Counseling Series)

Parenting & Relationships

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Book by Mordock, John B., Van Ornum, William

Crisis Counseling With Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Non-Professional Counselors

Crossroad Pub. Co

The defiant child presents a challenge to the therapist's patience as well as to his skill. To help clinicians grow in both, this volume by Dr. John B. Mordock draws on more than twenty-five years of experience with troubled children and their families. The author begins with the premise that children are children first and troubled children second, framing the work with a clear understanding of developmentally appropriate behaviors. Principles are illustrated with wonderful concrete examples, so that a beginning therapist can find the answers to such questions as what to do when the child continually subjects you to verbal abuse, or when the child won't leave the counseling room. Aggressive and defiant youngsters have made noncompliance a way of life. Conversations with such children, specifically aimed at counseling them, will be of significant help to social workers, teachers, and therapists. This is a guidebook for adults who seek to help children who are depressed, defiant, timid, or otherwise troubled. It is wise, readable, humorous, and filled with practical tips. Most importantly, it offers hope without false promises.

Van Ornum, William, Mordock, John B.

Crisis Counseling With Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Nonprofessional Counselors

Crisis counseling with children and adolescents: A guide for nonprofessional counselors by William Van Ornum &amp; John B. Mordock (Paperback)

Crisis Counseling with Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Nonprofessional Counselors

Ornum, William Van

Continuum International Publishing Group

Continuum

Managing for Outcomes: A Basic Guide to the Evaluation of Best Practices in the Human Services

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Child Welfare League of Amer

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A Handbook of Play Therapy with Aggressive Children

Counseling the Defiant Child: A Basic Guide to Helping Troubled and Aggressive Youth

Understanding and Treating the Aggression of Children: Fawns in Gorilla Suits

Counseling Children: Basic Principles for Helping the Troubled and Defiant Child (Continuum Counseling Series)

Crisis Counseling With Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Non-Professional Counselors

Counseling the Defiant Child: A Basic Guide to Helping Troubled and Aggressive Youth

Crisis Counseling With Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Nonprofessional Counselors

Crisis Counseling with Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Nonprofessional Counselors

Counseling Children: Basic Principles for Helping the Troubled and Defiant Child (Continuum Counseling Series)

Managing for Outcomes: A Basic Guide to the Evaluation of Best Practices in the Human Services