Play-Based Interventions for Childhood Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Play-Based Approaches for Treating Childhood Anxieties: Basic Concepts and Practices, Charles E. Schaefer & Athena A. Drewes
• I. Common Childhood Fears and Anxieties
• 2. Anxiety and the Hospitalized Child: Best Practices for Guiding Therapeutic Play, Donna Koller
• 3. Play Interventions for Children's Nighttime Fears, Julie Blundon Nash
• 4. Play Therapy Practices with Children Experiencing Nightmares, Deborah Armstrong
• 5. Play-Based Treatment for School-Related Fears and Phobias of Children, Clair Mellenthin
• 6. Release Play Interventions for Children Who Experienced Stressful Life Events, Heidi Gerard Kaduson
• II. Specific Anxiety Disorders
• 7. Integrating Play and Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions to Treat Childhood Worries and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Taming Worry Dragons, Sandra L. Clark & E. Jane Garland
• 8. Theraplay as a Treatment for Children with Selective Mutism: Integrating the Polyvagal Theory, Attachment Theory and Social Communication, Lydia C. Glibota, Sandra Lindaman, & A. Rand Coleman
• 9. Integrating Play Therapy into Treatment of Children with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Eric Green & Amie C. Myrick
• 10. Play Therapy for Separation Anxiety in Children, Paris Goodyear-Brown & Elizabeth Andersen
• 11. Effective Play-Based Interventions for Social Anxiety Disorder, Vicente E. Caballo, Isabel C. Salazar, & Thomas H. Ollendick
• 12. Integrating Play Therapy into Single-Session Behavioral Treatment for Preschool Children with Specific Phobias, Erinn N. Munro Lee, Helen Kershaw, & Lara J. Farrell
• III. Posttraumatic Anxieties
• 13. Play-Based Interventions for Children Traumatized by Natural and Human-Made Disasters, Akiko J. Ohnogi
• 14. Helping Sexually Abused Children Overcome Anxiety: A Play-Based Integrative Approach, Andrea Driggs McLeod
• Appendix: Helpful Bibliotherapy Books
• Index