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Affect regulation for children through art, play, and storytelling
This chapter presents favorite activities for the preparation stage of the protocol that interweaves EMDR principles into art, play, and storytelling to build safety, develop affect tolerance, and engage children in their own healing. Therapists who…
EMDR with children in the play therapy room: An integrated approach
Play is central in the development of the child's identity and the process of self-definition. In the safety of the parent—child relationship, play emerges as a powerful self-shaping force. Through play, infants and children begin to experience…
Go with that!
This children's book is meant to be read by child therapists to their child clients as a way to share and educate on the EMDR process.
Integrating play therapy and EMDR with children
Integrating Play Therapy and EMDR with Children is a reference book for clinicians who have been formally trained in both EMDR and Play therapy techniques. Creative and safe methods teach clinicians how to weave experiential play therapy and EMDR…
Room for everyone: EMDR and family-based play therapy in the sand tray
In the three decades since Francine Shapiro introduced the model, adaptive information processing (AIP) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) have provided mental health clinicians with a method for conceptualizing clients'…
Working with child trauma through EMDR and play therapy
In this chapter I will describe how Simon, a five-year old boy suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), was able to make sense of a serious car accident with the use of EMDR.