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Play therapy in the treatment of hebephrenia.

This paper has attempted to outline a multiple technique therapy designed for the treatment of hebephrenia. The first phase of the technique utilizes play therapy, followed by an interchange of therapist and patient's drawings, and finally, analytic psychotherapy. These three phases may be characterized, respectively, as expressive, expressive-communicative, and communicative.

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The Masterson Approach with play therapy: a parallel process between mother and child.

This paper discusses a case in which the Masterson Approach was used with play therapy to treat a child with a developing personality disorder. It describes the parallel progression of the child and mother in adjunct therapy throughout a six-year period. The unique value of the Masterson Approach is that it provides the therapist with a framework and tool to diagnose and treat a child during the dynamic process of play. The case describes the mother-child dyad throughout therapy. It traces their parallel processes that involve separation, individuation, rapprochement, and the recovery of real self-capacities. Each stage of treatment is described, including verbal interventions. The child's internal affective state and intrapsychic structure during the various stages of treatment are illustrated by representative pictures.

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Sibling play therapy with homeless children: an opportunity in the crisis.

A shelter for the homeless in Hawaii uses the residential setting as an opportunity to provide on-site, flexibly scheduled, culturally sensitive play therapy to young children, specifically targeting siblings as a natural support system to counteract the restricted peer interaction and play experience of this population. Case examples illustrate how sibling groups use the playroom to manage family crises as they happen, resolve conflicts, and express difficult feelings, making sense of their unpredictable world and mastering crucial developmental tasks.

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Play therapy: preparing the young child for surgery.

A child is not a miniature adult. His thought processes are pre-conceptual, pre-logical, and characterized by many fantasies. The child needs concrete information about his impending surgery: (1) what will happen; (2) what is expected of him; (3) that he is not to blame for his illness or injury, and (4) where the organ to be removed or repaired is located and that no other body parts will be harmed. Play therapy is an effective method for providing tangible information about the surgical experience and simultaneously decreasing the child's fantasies and fears about the surgery.

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[Play therapy for a child with separation anxiety disorder].

Separation anxiety disorder is characterized by severe and exceeding anxiety and fear when a child is facing separation with attachment objects. More over, it affected the child in language, emotional and social interest and development. These children usually brought to physician's attention due to refusal to go to school, social withdraw or multiple somatic complaints with attachment behavior wanted to be nearby or closed to the attachment objects. A child's early attachment relationship and previous separation experience play a major role in the formation of separation anxiety disorder. This report presents a psychoanalytically-oriented play therapy for a 2-year-8-month-old boy in 17 months period total of 54 sessions. According to the main themes in each session the process can be divided into 4 stages, namely establishing therapeutic relationship, expressing repressed emotions, management of transference, attachment and conflict in therapy, and self growth and termination. The formulation of this case and management were discussed.

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