Title: Play Therapy Info for Therapists
and Parents
http://www.play-therapy.com/
Author: Rise Van Fleet, Ph. D.file:///ZIP-100/Desktop%20Folder/Play.html
This website offers a ton of info
for parents, and it describes in detail the how and why of distinct play
therapy ideas. It gives information about certifications, books, manuals,
and a parent's own page on how important playing is to children and adults
alike. This website is an awesome tool for the parent and professional
therapist, too.
http://www.echanson.com/
Title: Resources for Play Therapy
and Counseling
Author: E. C. Hanson
Wow, this website not describes
how dolls are a wonderful medium as play therapy. These "Play - Mates"
in action are used for group discussions, aggressive children, and for
impulsive children. These dolls help children see some of the choices they
make, realize consequences, and they also allow the child to act out real
life situations. The therapeutic use of these dolls is tremendous.
http://www.snowcrest.net/kidpower/
Title:
KidPower
No Author
This website
has home study courses, awesome resources for therapists, and parent resource
centers. The parent centers give instructions on how to say no to a child,
how to discipline children, how to deal with crisis in the family, and
sibling rivalry to name a few. This is a really neat site that is a must
for teaching play therapy.
http://www.sandplay.org
Title:
International Society for Sandplay Therapy
Author:
Sandplay Therapists of America
The whole sand therapy thing is
when the client is basically put in a sandbox, and through creative freeplay,
his unconscious processes are made visible through three dimensional forms.
Individuation is supposed to happen when the client realizes his dreams.
This website also directs the audience to symbols created and what they
might mean for the individual.
http://www.artsintherapy.com/default.asp
Title: Arts in Therapy Network
Author: Chriss Berk
This awesome
site has links that take the seeker to art, dance, music, drama, psychodrama,
poetry, and bibliotherapy. It does have several other links, but the author
was in New York City on 9/11/01, and she and many others set up crisis
counseling centers with the above mentioned therapies to help New Yorkers
try to deal with their losses.
http://www.poeticmedicine.com/
Title: www.poeticmedicine.com
Author: John Fox
This website focuses on poetry
as a healing aspect for diseases and depressions. It has a link for impulse
writing, metaphor writing, and writing and listening how poets speak/sing
their words. This website gives teachers a way to use rock music to break
through to youngsters. It helps bust the generation gap a little when the
lyrics are broken down and used in a sociatal context. Students will be
able to see that the struggles they are going through are not only theirs,
but the same things have happened for eons.
http://www.zerotothree.org/dynamic.html
Title: Dynamic Play Therapy: An
Integrated Expressive Arts Approach to the Family Treatment of Infants
and Toddlers
Author: Steve Harvey, Ph.D.
This wonderful
website describes how important it is for parents to interact with their
children. It also details how a child's health can be affected by his parents
playing with him. Interaction is the key to healthy relationships between
parents and chldren.
http://www.uniqueprints-si-therapy.com/
Title: Unique Prints Pediatric
Therapy Services, Inc.
Author: None Shown
This website somewhat tugs at the
heart strings. It is fantastic in that this corporation has such fantastic
ideas about the healing process. It describes Jin Shin, Sensory Integration,
Music Therapy, Play Therapy, etc. A very dedicated staff that assists,
informs, educates, and creates.
http://www.counselingcorner.net/play/
Title: Counseling
Corner Inc.
Author: None
Shown
Sometimes
a parent/guardian needs to know when a child needs therapy, and who can
provide that therapy. This site does that with its links by helping the
parent ease the child into the process, while giving hints as to what to
tell the child (the reason for the play therapy). There is also a page
that describes specific child and adolescent disorders, what signs the
parent can look for, and what can be done about it.
http://www.artheals.org/community/build/build.html
Title: Community Projects
Building Community
Author: No Author
This building community is an awesome
site. It has storytelling, songs and humor to protest, the Dalai
Lama with music to heal, painting, and many community art programs to bring
communities together. There are a couple links for survivors, also.
It is a beautiful website with many graphics and multicultural projects.