Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family therapy. Eliana Gil demonstrates how to tailor treatment to the needs of each child by using both directive and nondirective approaches. Throughout, practical clinical examples illustrate ways to target trauma-related symptomatology while also helping children process painful feelings and memories that are difficult to verbalize. The book concludes with four in-depth cases that bring to life the unique situation of each child and family, the decision-making process of the therapist, and the applications of developmentally informed, creative, and flexible interventions.
Table of Content
I. The Context for Clinical Work
1. Basic Principles in Working with Abused and Traumatized Children
2. Guidelines for Integrated Assessments
3. Guidelines for Integrated Treatment
4. Expressive Therapies
5. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
6. Family Therapy and Family Play Therapy
7. Special Issues: Posttraumatic Play and Problems of Dissociation
II. Four Case Illustrations
8. Scotty, the Castle, and the Princess Guard
9. Carla’s Search for Her Lost Mother
10. Danger in the Backyard
11. The Witch, the Baby, and the Bug,
Sarah Stoudt Briggs
Epilogue
About the author
Eliana Gil, Ph D, is founding partner of the Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education, a private group practice in Fairfax, Virginia. She is also Director of Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy. Dr. Gil has worked in the field of child abuse prevention and treatment since 1973. A licensed marriage, family, and child counselor; an approved marriage and family therapy supervisor; a registered art therapist; and a registered play therapy supervisor, she is a former President of the Association for Play Therapy, which honored her with its Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the author of
The Healing Power of Play,
Helping Abused and Traumatized Children, and
Play in Family Therapy, Second Edition, among many other publications. Originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador, Dr. Gil is bilingual and bicultural.
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