Counseling Families: Play-Based Treatment

Counseling Families presents a practical integration of expressive arts and play therapy within family counseling from a humanistic perspective. When working with families with young children, play psychotherapy is often used by clinicians with an individual child, but not necessarily integrated within the familial context. This volume presents an integrative model of family play counseling that incorporates tenets of filial therapy, family play therapy, expressive arts, and play interventions when working with children and their families. The authors also include chapters on supervision of therapists providing family play counseling, as well as critical steps toward self-care to prevent burn out.