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Alison Chown - Play Therapy in the Outdoors: Taking Play Therapy out of the Playroom and into Natural Environments - 9781849054089 - V9781849054089
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Play Therapy in the Outdoors: Taking Play Therapy out of the Playroom and into Natural Environments

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Description for Play Therapy in the Outdoors: Taking Play Therapy out of the Playroom and into Natural Environments Paperback. A therapist's guide to the theory and practice of incorporating the outdoors and natural world into play therapy. The frameworks for practice are grounded in research and include adaptations for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties, complex social, emotional and behavioural problems, and parent child attachment work. Num Pages: 208 pages, 14 figures. BIC Classification: JMC; MQTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.

Championing the therapeutic power of nature, this book explores why outdoor play therapy offers children more than being confined to a playroom and how practice can be moved into the natural environment in a safe and ethical way.  

By using outdoor environments, the traditional dyadic relationship between the therapist and the child becomes a triadic one in which the therapeutic process is enhanced and the environment for the play therapy is shared and therefore more 'democratic'. The child can develop a lifelong therapeutic attachment to the 'nature mother' which supports the development of the body self and a ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849054089
SKU
V9781849054089
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2

About Alison Chown
Alison Chown is a play therapist and experienced specialist teacher for children and young people with complex behavioural, emotional and social difficulties. She is an independent practitioner and director of Phoenix Play, and its sister company Learning Tree Training Limited, which provide individually tailored training to schools and other agencies. Through this role she also is an associate tutor for ... Read more

Reviews for Play Therapy in the Outdoors: Taking Play Therapy out of the Playroom and into Natural Environments
In her wonderful book Play Therapy in the Outdoors, Alison Chown first takes us into the play therapy office, setting the stage by considering childhood itself in the context of the greater world children live in. She grounds the play therapy process in the body where it naturally arises from and then opens the door and takes us out into ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Play Therapy in the Outdoors: Taking Play Therapy out of the Playroom and into Natural Environments


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