Creative Arts and Play Therapy for Attachment Problems

This book vividly shows how creative arts and play therapy can help children recover from experiences of disrupted or insecure attachment. Leading practitioners explore the impact of early relationship difficulties on children's emotions and behavior. Rich case material brings to life a range of therapeutic approaches that utilize art, music, movement, drama, creative writing, and play. The volume covers ways to address attachment issues with individuals of different ages, as well as their caregivers. Chapters clearly explain the various techniques and present applications for specific populations, including complex trauma survivors.

Cathy A. Malchiodi, PhD, ATR-BC, LPAT, LPCC, REAT, is an art therapist, creative arts therapist, and clinical mental health counselor, as well as a recognized authority on art therapy with children, adults, and families. She has given more than 350 presentations on art therapy and has published numerous articles, chapters, and books, including Understanding Children's Drawings; Handbook of Art Therapy, Second Edition. A faculty member at Lesley University, Dr. Malchiodi is founder of the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute and President of Art Therapy Without Borders. She is the first person to have received all three of the American Art Therapy Association's highest honors: Distinguished Service Award, Clinician Award, and Honorary Life Member Award. She has also received honors from the Kennedy Center and Very Special Arts in Washington, DC. She is coeditor (with David A. Crenshaw) of Guilford's new Creative Arts and Play Therapy series.



David A. Crenshaw, PhD, ABPP, RPT-S, is Clinical Director of the Children's Home of Poughkeepsie, New York, and Faculty Associate at Johns Hopkins University. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of its Division of Child and Adolescent Psychology. Dr. Crenshaw is Past President of the Hudson Valley Psychological Association, which honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award, and of the New York Association for Play Therapy. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Play Therapy and has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and books on child therapy, child abuse and trauma, and resilience in children. He is a frequent presenter at statewide and national conferences on play therapy. He is coeditor (with Cathy A. Malchiodi) of Guilford's new Creative Arts and Play Therapy series.
 

I. Introduction
1. Creative Arts Therapy Approaches to Attachment Issues, Cathy A. Malchiodi
2. Play Therapy Approaches to Attachment Issues, David A. Crenshaw
II. Clinical Applications: Approaches to Working with Attachment Issues
3. Attachment Theory as a Road Map for Play Therapists, Anne Stewart, William F. Whelan, and Christen Pendleton
4. Art Therapy, Attachment, and Parent–Child Dyads, Cathy A. Malchiodi
5. Music Therapy with Children with Developmental Trauma Disorder, Jacqueline Z. Robarts
6. Moving with the Space between Us: The Dance of Attachment Security, Christina Devereaux
7. The Integration of Drama Therapy and Play Therapy in Attachment Work with Traumatized Children, Eliana Gil and Teresa Dias
8. Overcoming Complex Trauma with Filial Therapy, Glade L. Topham, Risë VanFleet, and Cynthia C. Sniscak
9. Theraplay in Reunification Following Relational Trauma, Phyllis B. Booth, Sandra Lindaman, and Marlo L.-R. Winstead
10. The Creative Use of Metaphor in Play and Art Therapy with Attachment Problems, Eliana Gil
11. The Neurobiological Power of Play: Using the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics to Guide Play in the Healing Process, Richard L. Gaskill & Bruce D. Perry
III. Clinical Applications: Approaches to Working with At-Risk Populations
12. Helping Foster Care Children Heal from Broken Attachments: A Missing Piece of the Child, Athena A. Drewes
13. Chronic Early Trauma as a Childhood Syndrome and Its Relationship to Play, Steven Tuber, Kira Boesch, Jessica Gorkin, and Madeleine Terry
14. The Princess and Dal Bhat Tarkari: Play Therapy with Children of Cross-Cultural Adoption, Henry Kronengold
15. Turning Back the Clock: Life before Attachment Trauma, David A. Crenshaw and Jennifer Lee
16. Integrated Play Therapy with Childhood Traumatic Grief, John W. Seymour
17. Mending Broken Attachment in Displaced Children: Finding "Home" through Play Therapy, Jennifer N. Baggerly and Eric J. Green