Dibs in Search Of Self
Ballantine Books
0 345 33925 8
Virginia M Axline
An easy to read
introduction to play therapy by the founder of the non-directive play
therapy approach.
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Windows To Our Children
The Gestalt Journal Press
0-939266-06-7
Violet Oaklander
Excellent coverage of many
of the play therapy 'tools' and a gestalt approach to play therapy.
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The Healing Path With Children
The Play Therapy Press
1-896702-00-7
Mark A Barnes
A book written from the
heart from a very experienced practitioner, the founder of PTI. Essential
reading for all play therapy students.
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(This title is available directly
from Play Therapy International - please email:
ptiuk@aol.com)
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The
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology
Routledge
0 415 19492 x
Allan Carr
An extremely comprehensive
text book at an advanced level. Required reading for Diploma students.
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Play Therapy
Ballantine Books
0 345 30335 0
Virginia Axline
A good introductory text
book.
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The Handbook of Play Therapy
Routledge
0-415-05986-0
Linnet McMahon
A good introductory text
book.
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Child Centred Play Therapy
Arnold
0 340 65253 5
Janet West
A very readable
introductory text book.
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Play Therapy The Art of the Relationship
AD - Accelerated Development Inc.
1 55959 017 3
Garry L Landreth
Essential reading for
Certificate students by one the world's leading play therapy trainers.
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Play Therapy
Bailliere Tindall
0-7020-1487-7
Kendrick, Ryan, Wilson
Basic textbook.
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Counselling Children A
Practical Introduction
Sage Publications Ltd
0-7619-5552-6
Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
Basic textbook
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Reconnecting to the Magic of
Life
Imaginal Press
0-9673280-0-4
Joyce Mills
Essential reading for the
Certificate course from the world's leading creator of therapeutic
metaphors.
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The Handbook of Dramatherapy
Routledge
0415-02922-8
Sue Jennings
Essential reading for the
Certificate course from
a founder of dramatherapy
in the UK.
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Using Storytelling as a
Therapeutic Tool with Children
Winslow Press
86388-274-9
Margot Sunderland
Essential reading for the
Certificate course from
the UK's leading author of
therapeutic stories.
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Storytelling with Children
The Hawthorn Press
1-869-890-02-7
Nancy Mellon
Essential reading for the
Certificate course
and anyone wanting to master the craft of storytelling.
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Inscapes of the Child's World
Spring Publications
0-88214-338-7
J Allen
Play therapy students have
found this book very enlightening.
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Moon Over Water Meditation Made
Clear With Techniques For Beginners and Initiates
Gateway Books
0-946551.56.1
Jessica Macbeth
Essential introduction for
techniques preceding creative visualisation.
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Attachment and Loss:
Penguin Books Ltd
0 14 013837 4
John Bowlby
John Bowlby's writings on
attachment are fundamental to understanding many of today's children's
problems.
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Music Therapy. Intimate Notes
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
1-85301-692-1
Mercedes Pavlicevic
Music therapy skills are
essential for a Play Therapist. This is a very good introduction.
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Sandplay Therapy with
Children and Families
Jason Aronson Ltd
0-7657-0161-8
Lois Carey
Sandplay is often the most powerful tool that a non directive Play Therapist
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Sandplay Studies Origins,
Theory and Practice
Sigo Press
0-938434-41-1
Katherine Bradway, Karen Signell,
Geraldine Spare, Charles Stewart, Clare Thompson, Louis Stewart
Diploma level text on this
subject.
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