Polyvagal Power in the Playroom: A Guide for Play Therapists [Paperback]

1. How the Science of Relationships Impacts Our Thinking about Development: Interruptions, Happenings, and Expressions of Risk or Resilience? 2. Listening Inside Our Bodies, Outside our Bodies, and Between Bodies: Interoception, Exteroception, and Setting Up a Polyvagal Informed Playroom? 3. The Sounds of Safety in an Unsafe World: Recovering from Domestic Violence Through Polyvagal Informed Play Therapy? 4. The Genius of the Disembodied Self: Coping with Childhood Sexual Abuse? 5. Healing Attachment Ruptures with Safety and Connection through Play? 6. Neurodivergencies: Incorporating Polyvagal Theory? 7. Plagues, Pandemics, and the Polyvagal Theory in the Playroom? 8. Reclaiming a Feeling of Safety in Natural Disasters: Preparatory and Advanced Interventions Using Play and Play Therapy? 9. Polyvagal-Informed Practice to Support Children and Caregivers in War: Toward the Creation of a Huge and Reassuring Playroom? 10. Anxiety, the Autonomic Nervous System and Play as Mechanisms of Change? 11. Polyvagal Theory and Play Therapy with Children who Exhibit Aggression? 12. Helping Depressed, Dissociative, and Withdrawn Children: Integrating Holistic Expressive Play Therapy and Polyvagal Theory? 13. Nature and Play as Polyvagal Partners in Play Therapy? 14. Child Centered Play Therapy: Person of the Therapist Presence, Neuroception of Safety, and Co-Regulation? 15. Safety in Sand and Symbols: Polyvagal Shifts in the Sand Tray? 16. Expressive Arts Therapy as Polyvagal Play: Shifting States Towards Safety? 17. Animal Assisted Play Therapy as a Polyvagal Process? 18. Digital Play Therapy : Harnessing the Felt Sense of Safety in the Digital Space

Child and play therapists will come away from Polyvagal Power in the Playroom with the tools they need to help children and their caregivers achieve deeper levels of safety and connection.

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