Embodied Play Therapy: Healing and Building Identity with Children
Autor Neal H. Brodskyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 aug 2026
Dynamic movement and body-centered play therapy techniques and tools provide children a language and outlet to speak their deep truths in the interest of healing from symptoms, including anxiety, depression, and the inability to sustain attention. Focusing on social, emotional, and relational growth, the author chronicles young people’s heroic journeys, searching for identity and safety amid fast-moving currents of societal and familial change. Linking the search for generative power to expressive freedom, chapters explore issues ranging from impulsive/explosive behavior, perfectionism and OCD, childhood fears, family-rooted anxiety, and child-parent connection through a range of in-person and live online video tele-sessions.
Practitioners who work with children, such as psychotherapists, marriage and family therapists, somatic therapists, and play therapists, plus teachers and parents, will embrace this warmly voiced combination of immersive case studies and cutting-edge practical applications.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032357195
ISBN-10: 1032357193
Pagini: 262
Ilustrații: 12
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032357193
Pagini: 262
Ilustrații: 12
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
ProfessionalCuprins
Part I: The Practice 1. Children in an Anxious Age: Embodied Play Therapy in Context 2. The Four Pillars of Embodied Play Therapy with Children: Movement, Breathing, Feeling, Play 3. Building A Bridge to a Child 4. Parents in the Mix 5. Touchy Subjects: Bodies, Butts, and Poop! 6. Moving Toward Balance Through Selected Methods in Embodied Play Therapy 7. Deepening Narrative 8. Completions in Embodied Play Therapy: Children and Families as Heroes on a Journey Part II: Practical Matters 9. Toolbox for Embodied Play Therapy 10. Live Video! Embodied Play Therapy Online 11. Injury Prevention
Notă biografică
Neal H. Brodsky, MA, MPA, LMFT, ACCEP is a licensed marital & family therapist, Core Energetics body counselor, writer, and presenter specializing in holistic therapy for adults, couples, and children.
Recenzii
"Somatic psychotherapy has increasingly moved into the mainstream over the past two decades. Neal Brodsky's Embodied Play Therapy: Healing and Building Identity with Children is both a logical and bold endeavor. Logical in that children are receptive to embodied expression in a way that most adults have lost, bold in that Mr. Brodsky has opened up a new frontier in child therapy. His synthesis of a wide range of established clinical practices and cutting-edge embodied interventions makes for fascinating and instructive reading. If you work with kids, you won't be disappointed."
Brian Gleason, MSW, executive director of The Center for Embodied Relationships
"Embodied Play Therapy: Healing and Building Identity with Children by Neal Brodsky is a true gift in the realm of child therapy. The author’s expertise in sand play, building rapport with children, and, most importantly, creating body awareness and sensitivity shines through. Due to the many case examples, therapists and parents alike will be able to quickly gain knowledge and understanding of interventions that work to help children achieve more fulfillment, build self-esteem, attain self-control, express themselves authentically, experience joy, and respond appropriately in stressful situations."
Karyne B. Wilner, PsyD, director of the Core Energetics Academy and former assistant director of the International Institute for Core Energetics, senior director of the Brazilian Institute, and associate director in Australia and author
"What a delightful and informative book about a novel approach to treating children with energy, play, and the compassionate involvement of parents. Neal Brodsky uses his background in film and television to bring a sense of embodied creativity to therapy. The book offers the necessary theoretical grounding and then shines in detailed clinical illustrations of a truly enlivened approach to therapy for children and their families. More than with any other therapy book I have read, I found myself smiling, nodding, and wishing I were in the room when Neal brings us inside the flow of his sessions with children. There is lots here for any therapist who works with children."
William J. Doherty, PhD, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota and co-author of Helping Couples on the Brink of Divorce: Discernment Counseling for Troubled Relationships
"Speaking as a director of a body psychotherapy training Institute in Central Europe, I am thrilled that my colleague, Neal Brodsky, LMFT, has written such a comprehensive, inspiring book to add to the ever-growing interest in somatic therapy. His clear understanding of what children need to be engaged and fully participate in therapy is an inspiration for all students and therapists who work with children and parents looking for direction for their children. The toolbox he offers with clear instructions is creative, energetic, innovative, and broadens the ideas of play therapy, enabling a clinician to more easily reach a young person. His case presentations offer a view of how enthusiastically children react to Embodied Play Therapy. May his ideas bring forth the ability to use imagination and expression as a beacon of hope for healing our younger generation."
Elizabeth S. Carl, LCSW, academic director, Polish Institute of Core Energetics
"Embodied Play Therapy: Healing and Building Identity with Children employs vivid case studies that bring Neal Brodsky’s therapeutic approach to life. Engaging narratives invite the reader along on the healing journey of children in his care, spotlighting the benefits of a holistic approach that engages the clients’ imaginations, emotions, senses, and bodies.
In the style of Carl Jung, who shared his childhood play memories in Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, Neal Brodsky invites the reader into his personal recollections of key childhood moments where the seeds of his future therapeutic style were sown.
For readers seeking to expand or deepen their play therapy skills, Brodsky’s chapter on teletherapy is particularly illuminating and inspiring. He possesses the magical ability to transform a two-dimensional environment into a three-dimensional, highly interactive space. We all breathe a little deeper as we take in the evidence-based techniques that bring relief to children who have been holding their breaths, steeling themselves against pain and anxiety."
Deborah Vilas, MS, CCLS, LMSW, program director of Child Life Programs, Bank Street College of Education
Brian Gleason, MSW, executive director of The Center for Embodied Relationships
"Embodied Play Therapy: Healing and Building Identity with Children by Neal Brodsky is a true gift in the realm of child therapy. The author’s expertise in sand play, building rapport with children, and, most importantly, creating body awareness and sensitivity shines through. Due to the many case examples, therapists and parents alike will be able to quickly gain knowledge and understanding of interventions that work to help children achieve more fulfillment, build self-esteem, attain self-control, express themselves authentically, experience joy, and respond appropriately in stressful situations."
Karyne B. Wilner, PsyD, director of the Core Energetics Academy and former assistant director of the International Institute for Core Energetics, senior director of the Brazilian Institute, and associate director in Australia and author
"What a delightful and informative book about a novel approach to treating children with energy, play, and the compassionate involvement of parents. Neal Brodsky uses his background in film and television to bring a sense of embodied creativity to therapy. The book offers the necessary theoretical grounding and then shines in detailed clinical illustrations of a truly enlivened approach to therapy for children and their families. More than with any other therapy book I have read, I found myself smiling, nodding, and wishing I were in the room when Neal brings us inside the flow of his sessions with children. There is lots here for any therapist who works with children."
William J. Doherty, PhD, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota and co-author of Helping Couples on the Brink of Divorce: Discernment Counseling for Troubled Relationships
"Speaking as a director of a body psychotherapy training Institute in Central Europe, I am thrilled that my colleague, Neal Brodsky, LMFT, has written such a comprehensive, inspiring book to add to the ever-growing interest in somatic therapy. His clear understanding of what children need to be engaged and fully participate in therapy is an inspiration for all students and therapists who work with children and parents looking for direction for their children. The toolbox he offers with clear instructions is creative, energetic, innovative, and broadens the ideas of play therapy, enabling a clinician to more easily reach a young person. His case presentations offer a view of how enthusiastically children react to Embodied Play Therapy. May his ideas bring forth the ability to use imagination and expression as a beacon of hope for healing our younger generation."
Elizabeth S. Carl, LCSW, academic director, Polish Institute of Core Energetics
"Embodied Play Therapy: Healing and Building Identity with Children employs vivid case studies that bring Neal Brodsky’s therapeutic approach to life. Engaging narratives invite the reader along on the healing journey of children in his care, spotlighting the benefits of a holistic approach that engages the clients’ imaginations, emotions, senses, and bodies.
In the style of Carl Jung, who shared his childhood play memories in Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, Neal Brodsky invites the reader into his personal recollections of key childhood moments where the seeds of his future therapeutic style were sown.
For readers seeking to expand or deepen their play therapy skills, Brodsky’s chapter on teletherapy is particularly illuminating and inspiring. He possesses the magical ability to transform a two-dimensional environment into a three-dimensional, highly interactive space. We all breathe a little deeper as we take in the evidence-based techniques that bring relief to children who have been holding their breaths, steeling themselves against pain and anxiety."
Deborah Vilas, MS, CCLS, LMSW, program director of Child Life Programs, Bank Street College of Education
Descriere
This book offers innovative strategies for healing children through movement and play with multicultural, multiracial, and genderfluid considerations.