Playing for Real: Exploring the World of Child Therapy and the Inner Worlds of Children

by Richard Bromfield

Book Overview

In this text the author demonstrates how children and adolescents cope and heal from a variety of abuses such as anxiety to incest, from attention deficit disorder to autism, from divorce to growing up. Through case studies, the therapist's world is explored as well as the patient's.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765701294
• ISBN13: 9780765701299
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Insightful

I am an undergraduate student majoring in Social Work. I found this book at a local Goodwill store and have not put it down since I began reading it. I knew I wanted to work with children, but this book opened my eyes to the wonderful world of play therapy. Richard Bromfield allows you to join him as he works with the children in his care. I ended up here researching for other books that may have been written by Bromfield.

An excellent overview of the three stages of treatment.

Dr. Bromfield provides an honest portrayal of his insights and errors in working with children through a play therapy modality. The cases are explained in some detail and all are thoroughly compelling. The book is divided into beginning, in therapy and ending sections. The cases themselves are not intended to be exhaustive of either the treatment, or the range of diagnostic difficulties experienced by children. The only possible negative may be that it would have been nice to have some of Dr. Bromfield's present analysis of what was occurring, or alternative steps he may have taken if engaging any of the children with his additional experience and knowledge.