Alison Chown

Play Therapy in the Outdoors (eBook, ePUB)

Taking Play Therapy out of the Playroom and into Natural Environments

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Championing the therapeutic power of nature, this book explores why outdoor play therapy offers children more than being confined to a playroom and how practice can be moved into the natural environment in a safe and ethical way.

By using outdoor environments, the traditional dyadic relationship between the therapist and the child becomes a triadic one in which the therapeutic process is enhanced and the environment for the play therapy is shared and therefore more 'democratic'. The child can develop a lifelong therapeutic attachment to the 'nature mother' which supports the development of the body self and a growing recognition of our interdependence with nature. The author explores how this is achievable in practice and the benefits to children with a wide range of needs including profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), complex social, emotional and behavioural problems (SEBD) and attachment issues.

Synthesising traditions of using outdoor spaces in a therapeutic context with approaches from educational perspectives, this book offers a theoretically-sound and practical framework for taking play therapy into natural environments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857008053
• Artikelnr.: 41141449

Autorenporträt

Alison Chown

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Author's notes. Foreword by Sara Knight, Deputy Chair of
the UK Forest Schools Association. Introduction. Part I . The Context and
the Theory.1. Traditions of Thinking about the Outdoors. 2. A Current
Context for Childhood. 3. The Importance of the 'Body' Self. 4. Connecting
with the 'Nature Mother'. Part II. Applications to Practice. References.
Index.