Description
Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship is the newest incarnation of Garry Landreth’s comprehensive text on creating therapeutic relationships with children through play. It details the Child-Centered Play Therapy model, which stresses the importance of understanding the child’s world and perspective. This approach facilitates the play therapy process while allowing therapist and client to fully connect. Professors who have taught a course based on the previous edition will be pleased to find the core message intact, but updated with a significant body of recent research. Expanded to cover additional topics of interest, the new edition includes:
- a full chapter on current research in play therapy
- new sections on supervising play therapists, legal and ethical issues and multicultural concerns
- 30 new photographs that show the author demonstrating techniques in-session
- practical tips for working with parents
- instructions on play room set-up and materials
- online instructor resources.
The Third Edition will feel both familiar and fresh to educators and trainers who have relied on Landreth’s text for years. The guidelines, transcripts, and case examples offered help therapists govern sensitive issues at every stage of the therapeutic process, from the first meeting to the end of the relationship.
Mrs R (verified owner) –
I’m doing a BA at the moment, and have an assignment to do on play therapy. This book was recommended to me by my lecturer and I have found it very useful. The book has a good layout and it is easy to read. Each chapter discusses a different element of play therapy.
Well worth buying!!
Jessica Fonte (verified owner) –
This is a crucial first book for anyone interested in or practicing play therapy. Well written and relatable. Great resource.
Peace & Love (verified owner) –
I read this book for an intro to play therapy course I took. It was a great introduction to the field. It is clear that Landreth has lots of experience and is passionate about play therapy. He did a great job informing me, a new counselor, how to use play therapy effectively and tips for some of the more common problems in the play room. I gave it four stars, instead of 5, because at times it felt really repetitive.
Ružica (verified owner) –
This book is very good! For some who work with children is good guidebook for approach to every child. Autor is very successful in his work and in teaching other therapist. Vocabulary is very simple and it is easy to understand for beginners!
Avid reader (verified owner) –
Landreth is the king of child-centered play therapy. He takes Rogers’ basic theories and translates them into the language of play therapy. His writing is reader-friendly, easy to understand, and held my interest.
Kathryn (verified owner) –
Any question I have regarding play therapy is included and answered in this book. I use it almost every day.
Tarkus (verified owner) –
When I reviewed the 2002 edition of this book, I described it as a clearly written pactical guide to “pure” non-directive/child-centred play therapy technique. Its focus on practice was its great strength, as it was virtually unique in actually describing, in detail, techniques for communicating and being with children in a therapeutic session.
This new edition has lost none of its practical content, and has added a chapter on research evidence.
Curiously, though, it remains the case that it does not include any material on early attachment experiences and brain development. In light of the massive expansion in understanding and practice that has occurred in this field in the last decade, this is a significant weakness.
For the practitioner, a second obvious weakness is the absence of any discussion of when other approaches might be more appropriate, and when one might have to move towards more directive activities.
Nevertheless, this is a significant updating, and it remains an indispensible guide for the child centred therapist.
Megan (verified owner) –
Good intro into play therapy for someone starting out. Only negative is some of the chapters are not needed due to common sense (if your a counselor) or not needed due to not being a huge impact in the play therapy learning.
trebor mint (verified owner) –
play therapy: the art of the relationship
I have just studying towards the MSc in play and therapeutic play and this book was recommended on our suggested reading list. The book has been invaluable in aiding my studies.
Very good, and I would recommend this book to any practitioner.
Tina Barnes (verified owner) –
I had to read this for grad school. It reads like a leisure book, not text book. I really enjoyed Landreth’s approach.
Suzanne N. Hall (verified owner) –
This book omits the jargon and drudge of a standard text book and presents each section in an easy to read and enjoyable format. A great book for the beginner in non-directive child centered play therapy. It covers every aspect that a professional starting out needs to know and gives guidance to the many difficult situations that may arise.
laura (verified owner) –
This book is everything you expect, it is interesting, gripping and tells the story of exactly what a play therapist does using real life examples to illustrate it
Alexis Clemons-Velasquez (verified owner) –
I love the use of the simplified yet descriptive language. I needed this book for a play therapy course, and it has opened up my mind to an assortment of wonder, insight, and information. While reading, I could feel the author’s passion for children and play therapy. I found the ENTIRE book to be useful. I like that it is written from a humanistic, child-centered orientation. I think that this book, along with Virginia M. Axline’s 1947 “Play Therapy”, are essentials to any person that is trying to learn the basics of play therapy.
karen phillips (verified owner) –
The information in this book is foundational for understanding play therapy. Garry has an abundance of experience and writes a book that is informative without being dry.
Kyle Sessums (verified owner) –
He’s a genius, what can I say? I LOVE this book.
Daniel (verified owner) –
It is a good read and every concerned parent should read it, to help their children.
SadiqMuhammad (verified owner) –
The book is very informative
Joy Daley (verified owner) –
Excellent material
tucker (verified owner) –
I didn’t want this book was told I needed it for class and I didn’t. It did arrived as ordered.
Randy (verified owner) –
I am new to play therapy, one of my profs recommended Landreth and I have really enjoyed this book. Landreth writes from a wealth of experience and genuine heart. Great insight into play therapy.
Ms. N. M. Rogers (verified owner) –
Great for play therapy
SeM (verified owner) –
Great book, essential for anyone working with children.
Bought this book after a friend told me that his supervisor recommended it and it transformed the way I work with children.
This book is amazingly easy to read while providing a wealth of information.
DoxieMama3318 (verified owner) –
Great book, easy to understand and apply to everyday work
Missi (verified owner) –
Excellent resource for students and professionals who work with children!
Tracey Renee (verified owner) –
Awesome tool for students and professionals
Brian K. Pulsipher (verified owner) –
Do you want to understand how to talk and listen to people, including your own kids? This book is helpful. It puts things simply without getting dry and long. It’s easy to skip around in and engages the reader. It helped me to re-realize that frequently, people do not understand how to listen and communicate with others, including myself. “Play Therapy” is something to which most can relate.
Zee (verified owner) –
Great read! A must for anyone who wants to work with kids. It’s probably the only book I reference often from Graduate school!
Lou lou (verified owner) –
An excellent book by the master himself. I am new to play therapy and this book answered all my questions. If you are working with children this is a book that must be read. Written clearly without complicated vocabulary. I highly recommend.
Katie Henson (verified owner) –
I absolutely loved this book! It has helped with Child Centered Play Therapy, or Rogerian style therapy and developing those skills. It has propelled me into wanting to become a child play therapist as well!
Jacquelyn Powers (verified owner) –
A beautifully conceited book describing the need for children to be met with understanding; realizing that they verbalize best through play.
Peter Tebault (verified owner) –
The most often recommended textbook to beginning play therapists – and its clear why from the first chapter. This book provides a complete overview of most everything a play therapist needs to begin their work. Its been a trusted Bible of play therapy wisdom in my early career.
Samantha Dickens (verified owner) –
Required for Play Therapy Counseling class.
katherine muschinske (verified owner) –
Shipped and arrived as expected.
Katie List (verified owner) –
Fabulous read!!
SAM I AM (verified owner) –
Glad I purchased this book!
Gill (verified owner) –
So easy and digestible to read and tells you what you want and need to know, love the examples he gives.
Eva’s Nanny (verified owner) –
This book by Garry Landreth is a classic.
Thu Nguyen (verified owner) –
This is a compelling and informative textbook style on CCPT. I would recommend reading it if the professionals/students are interested in working with children. This is a gem!
ERIC J WIECKMANN (verified owner) –
A profound journey into the road map of relationship with children struggling to be their full self. This book is practical and already produced significantly better results in my own work with traumatised children and their families.
Narelle S. (verified owner) –
I didn’t receive a DVD with it, as per order.
Great book though
Gena Kainzon (verified owner) –
It’s a school book nuff said
Hanna (verified owner) –
I love this book. This is my second time reading it and i have learned so much from it!!! I hate how expensive it is tho