Author: Sandra Walker Russ"Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy:
Toward Empirically Supported Practice (Lea's Personality and Clinical Psychology)"
200 pages | Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1 edition (September 1, 2003) | English | ISBN:0805830650 | PDF | 1.1MB
Child psychotherapy is in a state of transition. On the one hand, pretend play is a major tool of therapists who work with children. On the other, a mounting chorus of critics claims that play therapy lacks demonstrated treatment efficacy. These complaints are not invalid. Clinical research has only begun.