Implementing Play Therapy with Groups: Contemporary Issues in Practice

Implementing Play Therapy with Groups is a new and innovative edited book bringing together experts from across the field of play therapy to explore how to facilitate group play therapy across challenging settings, diagnoses, and practice environments.

Applying theoretical and empirical information to address treatment challenges, each chapter focuses on a specific treatment issue and explores ways the reader can implement group work within their play therapy work. Chapters also provide contemporary evidence-based clinical information in providing group therapy with specific populations such as working with children who have been exposed to violence, trauma, adoption, foster care, those who are chronically medically fragile, and more.

This book will bring awareness to, and provide easily implemented play therapy knowledge and interventions for, child and family therapists who work in a range of settings including schools, hospitals, residential treatment centers, and community mental health settings.

Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S, is an international speaker, author, and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. Clair is the author of the bestselling book Attachment Centered Play Therapy. She is the director of Child & Adolescent Services at Wasatch Family Therapy in Utah.

Jessica Stone, PhD, is an international speaker, clinical supervisor, and registered play therapist. She is the co-creator of The Virtual Sandtray®© and the developer of Digital Play Therapy.TM

Robert Jason Grant, EdD, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Advanced Certified Autism Specialist, and is the creator of AutPlay® Therapy. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Association for Play Therapy and is an accomplished author, advocate, and trainer.