Charles E Schaefer

Play Therapy for Preschool Children

"Play Therapy for Preschool Children" is a comprehensive sourcebook of play interventions for preventing and resolving the most common disorders of children aged 3-5 years old. Editor Charles Schaefer has gathered leading clinicians and researchers who present the research background alongside recen...

Trauma & Resilience: A Handbook

Are you looking for resources to come alongside people who are sufferingas they serve God? This book brings together theological perspectives;personal stories; and spiritual, psychological, community, and medicalresources. It is research-based and at the same time practical. This isa handbook for ch...

The Therapeutic Powers of Play: 20 Core Agents of Change

"Focusing on the specific ingredients that activate clinical change, this book is enhanced by current research, more ample scope, and an array of contributions in contemporary and relevant topic areas. It is full of inspiration, direction, and grounding. This is a stunning contribution to the field ...

Short-Term Play Therapy for Children, Third Edition

Illustrated with rich case examples, this widely used practitioner resource and text presents a range of play approaches that facilitate healing in a shorter time frame. Leading play therapists from diverse theoretical orientations show how to tailor brief interventions to each child's needs. Indivi...

Essential Play Therapy Techniques: Time-Tested Approaches

Highly practical and user friendly, this book presents 58 play therapy techniques that belong in every child clinician's toolbox. The expert authors draw from multiple theoretical orientations to showcase powerful, well-established approaches applicable to a broad range of childhood problems. Activi...

101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques (Child Therapy)

Building on children's natural inclinations to pretend and reenact, play therapy is widely used in the treatment of psychological problems in childhood. 101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques incorporates methods developed to elicit the best responses from children by therapists representing cognitive...

Ages and Stages: A Parent's Guide to Normal Childhood Development

A comprehensive parent's guide to your child's psychological development from birth through age 10 Written in an engaging, practical style, Ages and Stages offers you the benefits of the most current research on child development, featuring helpful tips and techniques to foster your child's maturati...

Foundations of Play Therapy

The landmark guide to play therapy—completely updated and revised Edited by Charles E. Schaefer—the "father of play therapy"—Foundations of Play Therapy, Second Edition is a complete, state-of-the-art guide to the many diverse approaches to, and methods used in, play therapy practice with children ...

How to Help Children With Common Problems

How to Influence Children: A Complete Guide for Becoming a Better Parent

How to Help Children With Common Problems

Children in Residential Care: Critical Issues in Treatment

How to Help Children With Common Problems

Teach Your Child to Behave: Disciplining With Love from 2 to 8 Years

Play Diagnosis and Assessment

Game Play: Therapeutic Use of Childhood Games