Play Therapy in the Outdoors (häftad, eng)

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 growing recognition of our interdependence with nature. The author explores how this is achievable in practice and the benefits to children with a wide range of needs including profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), complex social, emotional and behavioural problems (SEBD) and attachment issues.

Synthesising traditions of using outdoor spaces in a therapeutic context with approaches from educational perspectives, this book offers a theoretically-sound and practical framework for taking play therapy into natural environments.

Format	Häftad
Omfång	208 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Utgivningsdatum	2014-06-21
ISBN	9781849054089