Play Therapy: The Art of Relationships

This book — the latest edition of Harry Landreth's comprehensive work on establishing therapeutic relationships with children through play. It details the child-centered play therapy model, which emphasizes the importance of understanding the child's world and perspectives. Additionally, this book facilitates the play therapy process, allowing the therapist and client to achieve complete mutual understanding. Professors teaching courses based on previous editions of the book will be pleased to find that the core idea remains unchanged, and that the new material is presented in excellent balance with the classic text. The book contains: . an expanded chapter on short-term play therapy; . a new extensive chapter on research using child-centered play therapy; . new sections dedicated to the supervision of play therapy specialists, legal and ethical issues, as well as principles of multiculturalism; . photographs, brief examples from practice, and dialogue samples that bring the material to life.