Solution-Focused Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Creative and Play-Based Approaches

By Elizabeth R Taylor

Book Overview

Solution-Focused Therapy with Children and Adolescents offers mental health professionals an integration of creative and playful approaches and solution-focused therapy. The author presents developmentally appropriate and expressive alternatives to oral communication including sandtray, writing, puppetry, drawing and coloring, photography, and music. The text presents an overview of strength-based and creative approaches with a focused examination of the philosophy and process of solution-focused therapy, then divides chapters into specific stages of therapy--beginnings, searching for treasure, setting goals, and ending the session--with creative techniques offered in each section. The final chapter addresses working with children and adolescents in solution-focused groups, including how to set up groups and progress through different group stages, presenting specific techniques and activities focused on each stage of the group process.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138054550
• ISBN13: 9781138054554
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"