1st Edition
Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families is a comprehensive guide that provides an integrative and prescriptive approach to creating customized treatment plans. It’s an excellent textbook for graduate programs in social work, counseling, and family therapy and an invaluable guide for practicing clinicians in all settings.
After exploring and explaining the many modalities for treating children and adolescents, this book provides sample treatment plans using a variety of case vignettes. Chapters also take readers through a road map for case conceptualization, meeting with caregivers, problem identification, goal development, diagnosis determination, determination of interventions and termination, and much more.
Foreword
Athena A. Drewes
Part One: Foundations of Treatment Planning
1. Purposeful and Effective Treatment Planning for Children and Families
Lynn Louise Wonders
2. Understanding the Context of Human Development in Treatment Planning
Cary McAdams Hamilton
3. Cultural Implications to Treatment Planning for Children and Families
Rebeca Chow
4. Approaches for Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning
Lynn Louise Wonders
Part Two: Treatment Planning from a Variety of Theoretical Orientations, Models, and Approaches
5. An Adlerian Play Therapy Approach to Treatment Planning
Susan Kerley and Erica Wassernaar
6. Treatment Planning for Animal Assisted Play Therapy™
Risë VanFleet
7. An AutPlay® Approach to Therapy Planning
Robert Jason Grant
8. A Child-Centered Play Therapy Approach to Treatment Planning
Rosie Newman
9. Treatment Planning from a Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy Perspective
Sueann Kenney-Noziska
10. A Digital Play Therapy™ Approach to Treatment Planning
Rachel A. Altvater
11. Using a Family Systems Approach to Assessment and Treatment
Eliana Gil and Timothy Baima
12. A Filial Therapy Approach to Treatment Planning
Risë VanFleet
13. A Developmental Approach to Treatment Planning for Infants with FirstPlay® Therapy
Janet A. Courtney
14. A Gestalt Approach to Treatment Planning
Felicia Carroll
15. A Jungian Approach to Treatment Planning
Eric J. Green and Kim Powell Street
16. Kalffian Sandplay in Assessment and Treatment Planning
Rosalind L. Heiko
17. A Psychodynamic Approach to Treatment Planning
Geoff Goodman
18. A Neurobiological Relational Approach to Therapy Planning
Rita Grayson
19. A Synergetic Play Therapy® Approach to Treatment Planning
Lisa Dion and Judith Norman
20. Treatment Planning in TraumaPlay™: Story Keeping for the Family System
Paris Goodyear-Brown
Part Three: Special Populations and Considerations with Treatment Planning
21. Therapy Planning for Sexually Abused Children and Adolescents
Sueann Kenney-Noziska
22. Therapy Planning with EMDR® and Play Therapy
Ann Beckley-Foreset and Rhonda Johnson
23. Psychotherapy Treatment Planning with Children in Crisis
Claudio Mochi and Isabella Cassina
24. A Neurodiversity Affirming Approach to Therapy Planning
Robert Jason Grant
25. Treatment Planning with Children During High-Conflict Divorce
Lynn Louise Wonders
26. Treatment Planning with LGBTQ+ (SOGIE) Youth and Families
Kurt W. Oster
27. Race-Based Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment Planning with Black Children and Families
April Duncan
28. Mindfulness in Treatment Planning
Lynn Louise Wonders
29. Families, Children, and Technology in Treatment Planning
Mary L. Affee, Lynn Louise Wonders, Courteney Matteson, and Julia Krebs
30. Treatment Planning in Clinical Supervision
Eleah Hyatt
Biography
Lynn Louise Wonders is a licensed professional counselor (LPC), certified professional counselor (CPCS), and registered play therapist-supervisor (RPT-S). She has provided clinical supervision, consultation, and training since 2010.
Mary L. Affee is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), a registered play therapist-supervisor (RPT-S), and holds a doctorate in education. She is the founder and clinical director of Horizon Integrated Wellness Group, a private practice in North Carolina.
"This book on treatment planning stands out for its holistic approach. The co-editors selected some of the best scholars and practitioners in the play therapy field. I love the emphasis on the wide array of contributing factors and wider systems.”
David A. Crenshaw, PhD, ABPP, author and board-certified clinical psychologist
“Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families delivers just what the title describes and much more. The editors provide a thoughtful rationale for the importance of treatment planning, one that extends the plan to be a dynamic process, encompassing relevant contextual factors in the child’s life. The editors have assembled seasoned practitioners to offer guidance and practical applications for treatment planning, ensuring that the book is useful across various presenting issues and theoretical orientations. The book will help practitioners craft holistic and high-quality plans to support the well-being of children and families!”
Anne Stewart, PhD, professor, Department of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University
“This is a book play therapists will keep handy for many years.”
Richard Gaskill, EdD, LPC, RPT-S
