02680 a2200385 4500 20250526161932.0 250430042024GB 34 eng 9781032393667 BC Taylor & Francis GBP 28.99 BB 01 eng MKMT thema JNLA thema MBNH thema MQTC thema JKSN2 thema JNC thema MMJT bic JNLA bic MBNH bic MQTC bic JKSN2 bic JNC bic PSY006000 bisac PSY022040 bisac PSY036000 bisac 615.85153 bisac Paris Goodyear-Brown 897 Polyvagal Power in the Playroom A Guide for Play Therapists 1 Oxford Routledge 20240326 258 p Polyvagal Power in the Playroom shows therapists how to treat children using play therapy to address the hierarchy of autonomic states. What do children need and how do play therapists purposefully use the principles of play to increase the feeling states of safety and regulation? Step inside the playroom and discover how trained play therapists are addressing treatment using polyvagal theory when working with children and teens. The book is organized into three parts: Interruptions explores developmental derailments brought about by relational betrayals such as domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and attachment ruptures implicated in a myriad of adverse childhood experiences. In these cases, the neuroception of safety scaffolded through "good enough" rhythms of healthy caregiver/child interactions is either compromised through a thousand relational cuts (parental addiction or parental mental illness) or abruptly ended (divorce, death or incarceration of a parent) Happenings explores events that involve an external intrusion, such as natural disasters, wars, and pandemics Expressions of risk and resilience explores mental health symptom clusters such as depression, anxiety, dissociation, and explosive behavior through the lens of dorsal vagal or sympathetic nervous system states, as well as specific play therapy methods for healing the nervous system The therapeutic powers of play are illustrated through case examples and in practical, play-based interventions woven throughout the book. 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. Lorri A. Yasenik B01 898 10566 10566