Integrating Expressive Arts and Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents

Praise for Integrating Expressive Arts and Play Therapy With Children and Adolescents

'With this book, Drs. Green and Drewes have filled an important void in the play therapy literature, namely the integration of the expressive arts in play therapy with children and adolescents. They have assembled the best theorists and practitioners of the expressive arts and given them an appropriate structure to write their chapters. The book is outstanding and provides readers with in-depth case studies, detailed methodologies, research findings and is a useful resource for further training options. I recommend this book most highly for trainers, practitioners, and graduate students.'
-John Allan, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Counseling Psychology, University of British Columbia, author, Inscapes of the Child's World

'Brimming with chapters by 'oracles' from various disciplines, Green and Drewes' guidebook articulates essential competencies for the cross-disciplinary practice of play therapy and expressive arts therapies. Practical and timely, responsible and readable, it is an important resource for the mental health community and students who seek to work creatively with children. A significant contribution toward bringing professionals and professions together to learn from one another.'
-Barry M. Cohen, MA, ATR-BC, founder, Expressive Therapies Summit, cofounder, Mid-Atlantic Play Therapy Training Institute

Interventions and approaches from the expressive arts and play therapy disciplines

Integrating Expressive Arts and Play Therapy With Children and Adolescents presents techniques and approaches from the expressive and play therapy disciplines that enable child and adolescent clinicians to augment their therapeutic toolkit within a competent, research-based practice.

With contributions representing a 'who's who' in the play therapy and expressive arts therapy worlds, Integrating Expressive Arts and Play Therapy With Children and Adolescents is the definitive bridge between expressive arts and play therapy complementarily utilized with children and adolescents in their healing and creative capacities.

ERIC J. GREEN, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT, RPT-S, is Associate Professor of Counseling at the University of North Texas at Dallas and Faculty Associate at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. For more info visit www.drericgreen.com.

ATHENA A. DREWES, PsyD, MA, RPT-S, is a clinician and Director of Clinical Training and the American Psychological Association Doctoral Internship Program at Astor Services for Children & Families. She is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor and past director of the Association for Play Therapy.