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Play is to the child what verbalization is to the adult-it is a medium for expressing feelings, exploring relationships, describing experiences and disclosing wishes. Revised and updated, this second edition of the award-winning Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship provides comprehensive and detailed information for creating therapeutic relationships with children and facilitating the play therapy process. Guidelines, transcripts and case examples are provided for governing sensitive issues at every stage of the therapeutic process, from the first meeting to the end of the relationship.

Winner of the Texas Counseling Association Professional Writing Award, this book opens the door to the child's world of being, experiencing, exploring, appreciating, and creating, the author invites adults to enter the child's world unobtrusively to experience that world of wonder, excitement, joy, sadness, and the vivid colors of life. The book has achieved international readership, having been translated into Russian, Chinese and Korean.
The author is director of the Center for Play Therapy, the largest play therapy program in the world, and has been a consultant in China, Europe, Korea and South Africa.

Play Therapy, Second Edition, is a thorough update to the 1991 first edition best-selling book, the most widely used text for play therapy courses. It refreshes the history and development in play therapy including results of research done in the past 10 years. A new chapter is included on current issues and special populations relevant to the development of play therapy. The author presents very readable descriptions of play and the history of play therapy; child and therapist characteristics; play room set-up and materials; working with parents; and a number of helpful and interesting case descriptions.

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