Sandplay: Therapy with Children and Families

Sandplay: Therapy with Children and Families

Family therapy that doesn't actively and intentionally engage children is not family therapy, notes Daniel Sweeney's extended introduction in support of Lois Carey's creative synthesis of sandplay therapy with a family systems orientation. Reminding us that we can only take clients as far as we ourselves have been able to go, Carey reveals her own very personal involvement with the process.

She explores the application of sandplay therapy as she learned it from Dora Kalff, among others, and shares her professional experience in a chapter on equipping the office with miniatures and also with cameras (for give-away Polaroids and for record-keeping slides) touching such bottom lines as how to deal with the mess and how to handle the theft of a figure. While Carey cites case examples, complete with pictures, to illustrate her use of sandplay in working with children, she also demonstrates that the medium appeals to the inner child in the adult. Moreover, the sandbox itself sets physical and symbolic limits that enhance therapy with family members, and the sandplay becomes a forum for alliances that the clinician can observe in action and intervene to restructure. Lois Carey makes the case effortless by teaching lessons bound to be welcomed by any professional looking for new tools or open to fresh perspectives.
Country USA
Brand Jason Aronson, Inc.
Manufacturer Jason Aronson, Inc.
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber index, references
ReleaseDate 1999-04-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780765701619

Country	USA
Brand	Jason Aronson, Inc.
Manufacturer	Jason Aronson, Inc.
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	index, references
ReleaseDate	1999-04-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780765701619

Sandplay: Therapy with Children and Families

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