| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- PART I: Background, theory, and conceptualization -- 1. An introduction to play and storytelling -- Defining therapeutic play -- Storytelling -- Overview of the rest of the book -- 2. Fantasy-Exposure Life-Narrative Therapy: Its development and an overview of the format -- The core tenets of Play Therapy -- FELT treatment fidelity checklist -- The FELT format -- play analysis through story stems -- A preface about coding -- Initial response -- Final content |
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Deus ex machina resolution -- Emotional shift -- Incongruent affect -- Reactions to inescapable fear/anxiety -- Danger -- Neediness -- Labeling of emotions and symptoms -- Self-representations -- "Other" representations -- The prime maladaptive themes -- FELT designed as a treatment for anxiety -- 3. Object-relations theory in child development and in childhood play -- The Self -- Postmodern views of the Self -- Self-representations and traits: how we use words to define the Self -- Therapeutic goals that derive from vulnerabilities of the Self across childhood |
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Goals for Self-development in very early childhood (ages 2-4) -- Goals for Self-development in early to middle childhood (ages 5-7) -- Goals for Self-development in middle to late childhood (ages 8-11) -- Objects -- Internal representations of Objects -- The "in-between" -- the relationship between Self and Objects -- The accuracy of internal representations -- Real versus imagined relationships and their impact on Objectrelations -- 4. Mechanisms of change in psychotherapy -- Expression, catharsis, and labeling of feelings -- Corrective emotional experience |
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Insight, re-experiencing, and working through -- Analgesia/comfort needs -- Need for power: dunamis and exousia needs -- Superego needs -- Need for love -- Need for Objects -- Popularity needs -- Integration needs -- Other core psychoanalytic ideas influencing how change occurs in psychotherapy -- Insight, re-experiencing, and working through: summary -- Problem-solving techniques and coping strategies -- Object-relations, internal representations, and interpersonal development -- Overlapping mechanisms in integrative therapy -- 5. Core principles of effective therapy: The ACER characteristics |
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Attunement -- Concern -- Expertise -- Responsivity -- Summary -- 6. FELT etiological model of anxiety -- The FELT anxiety model -- Propagating factors -- Genetic factors -- Psychodynamic factors -- Environmental/cultural/learned factors -- Manifest factors -- Biological dysfunction -- Negative affect -- Temporal factors -- What does all this mean for FELT? -- 7. Pharmacology and biological factors of childhood anxiety -- Pharmacological approaches to anxiety treatment -- What are the clinical targets of medications used to treat anxiety? -- Physiological arousal and distress in anxious humans |
| Summary |
This book is a structured manual for the execution of FELT, an integrative play therapy that marries the analytic, relational, and psychodynamic aspects of traditional Play Therapy with the scientific rigor and replicability standards of clinical empiricism |
| Notes |
Machine-generated record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003856801 |
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1003856802 |
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