Infant Play Therapy : Foundations, Models, Programs, and Practice (Hardcover)

PART I. 1. Conceptualizing Infant Play Therapy in the Context of Infant Mental Health Janet A. Courtney 2. The Impact of Play on the Developing Social Brain: New Insights from the Neurobiology of Touch Emily Jackson and Francis McGlone 3. Neurosensory Play in the Infant-Parent Dyad: An Infant Play Therapy Model Ken Schwartzenberger PART II. 4. Playability: Observing, Engaging, and Sequencing Play Skills for Very Young Children. Judi Parsons, Karen Stagnitti, Bridget Dooley, and Kate Renshaw 5. Trauma Informed Infant Mental Health Assessment Eva Nowakowski-Sims and Danna Powers PART III. 6. FirstPlay® Therapy Strengthens the Attachment Relationship Between a Mother with Perinatal Depression and her Infant Karen Baldwin, Meyleen Velasquez and Janet A. Courtney 7. Infant Filial Therapy ? From Conception to Early Years: Clinical considerations for working with whole family systems. Kate Renshaw and Judi Parsons 8. Intervening with Theraplay with a 13-Month old Diagnosed with Medical Complications Hanna Lampi PART IV. 9. Baby Doll Circle Time: Strengthening Attunement, Attachment and Social Play Becky Bailey 10. DIR/Floor Time: A Developmental/Relational Play Therapy Model in the Treatment of Infants and Toddlers Exhibiting the Early Signs of Autism Spectrum Disorder Esther Hess 11. Reflections of Love in the Teacup Preemie Program®: Strengthening the Attachment Relationship through FirstPlay® Infant Story-Massage Chelsea Johnson PART V. 12. Using the Healing Power of Relationships to Support Change in Young Children Exposed to Trauma: Application of The Child-Parent Psychotherapy Model Harleen Hutchinson 13. Incorporating Play into Child-Parent Psychotherapy as an Intervention with Infants Exposed to Domestic Violence Allison Golden and Veronica Castro 14. Trust Based Relational Intervention with a Two-Year-Old?An adoption Case Montserrat Casado-Kehoe, Casey Call, David Cross, and Henry Milton PART VI. 15. Children Born Opioid-Addicted: Symptoms, Attachment and Play Treatment Athena Drewes 16. Hope after the storm: Addressing the impact of perinatal grief on attachment with rainbow babies through an embodied grief process. Renee Turner and Christina Villarreal-Davis 17. Healing Reactive Attachment Disorder with Young Children through FirstPlay® Kinesthetic Storytelling Janet A. Courtney, Viktoria Bakai Toth, and Carmen Jimenez-Pride