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Mar 14, 2022
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Introduction: Play Therapy and Expressive Arts in a Complex and Dynamic World

Throughout the pages the transformative and healing power of play and expressive arts are applied in various cultural contexts and settings, inside and outside the playroom, live and remote. The introduction of the book Play Therapy and Expressive Arts in a Complex and Dynamic World: Opportunities and Challenges Inside and Outside the Playroom emphases the need for professionals from mental health and psychoeducational fields, who work with children, adolescents and families,

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Mar 14, 2022
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Applying the therapeutic power of play and expressive arts in contemporary crisis work

Exploring the process-oriented approach “Coping with the present while building for the future” while learning from practical examples from the field. The first chapter of the book Play Therapy and Expressive Arts in a Complex and Dynamic World: Opportunities and Challenges Inside and Outside the Playroom begins by presenting the concept of “crisis” from a psychological and humanitarian perspective. Key elements are introduced to support the application of a process-oriented

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Mar 14, 2022
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Integrating creative arts modalities in the playroom and outside: Live and remote interventions

Reviewing the mechanisms of change related to the Creative Arts Therapies such as active involvement with symbolism, metaphor making, and the enjoyment that accompanies arts-based expression. The second chapter of the book Play Therapy and Expressive Arts in a Complex and Dynamic World: Opportunities and Challenges Inside and Outside the Playroom presents an overview of how the practice of Play Therapy can be expanded to include Creative Arts Therapies and modalities as integ

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Mar 14, 2022
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Recovering lost play time: Address psychosocial wellbeing of asylum seeker and refugee children

Principles and intervention modalities for providing psychosocial support to refugee children and families in the context of a reception centre. The third chapter of the book Play Therapy and Expressive Arts in a Complex and Dynamic World: Opportunities and Challenges Inside and Outside the Playroom focuses on how to respond to the impact of forced displacement on children’s psychosocial wellbeing. The phenomenon of migration is presented as a process where children face an a

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Mar 14, 2022
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Learn to Play Therapy in high risk countries: The example of Nigeria

The example of a project developed in schools and day care settings aimed to strengthen the local support system as a means of widening the range of protective factors for children and their families. The fifth chapter of the book Play Therapy and Expressive Arts in a Complex and Dynamic World: Opportunities and Challenges Inside and Outside the Playroom provides an overview of Learn to Play Therapy and explores the application of this model in high risk countries with both c

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Mar 14, 2022
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Play and expressive arts to enhance professional development and personal growth

Introducing the contiguum of professional development-personal growth in challenging contexts by practical examples from over the world, in-presence and online. The last chapter of the book Play Therapy and Expressive Arts in a Complex and Dynamic World: Opportunities and Challenges Inside and Outside the Playroom starts by sharing three main assumptions: a contemporary complex world requires professionals working with children, youths and families, to have additional qualiti

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