Child-Centered Play Therapy Research: The Evidence Base for Effective Practice

Editors include: Jennifer N Baggerly, Dee C Ray and Sue C Bratton.

Research must support the efficacy of play therapy in order to justify therapists' use of it to insurance companies, courts, school districts, and parents. Focusing on the two most academically researched types of play therapy--child-centered play therapy and filial therapy--this is the first book of its kind to provide exhaustive, in-depth coverage of play therapy research studies through chapters written by the top play therapy researchers. Play therapists are provided with authoritative guidance on the best evidence-based methods and how future play therapy research should be conducted.