Title: Creative Approaches in Counseling and Psychotherapy, sixth edition

Authors Thelma Duffey, PhD; Shane Haberstroh, EdD; and Heather Trepal, PhD

Description: This chapter (a) addresses creativity as a theoretical construct used by counselors and other mental health professionals, (b) provides a historical context for the use of expressive therapies and the creative arts in counseling, (c) distinguishes creativity in counseling (CIC) as an approach within the profession of counseling, (d) discusses the ethical parameters around using creative approaches in counseling practice, and (e) applies CIC as an approach in the case study of Maria.

Title: Effects of Adlerian Play Therapy on Children’s Externalizing Behavior

Authors: Kristin K. Meany-Walen, PhD; Terry Kottman, PhD; Quinn Bullis, MA; and Dalenna Dillman Taylor, PhD

Description: Without intervention, children’s externalizing behaviors tend to worsen over time and increase the risk that they will experience future problems. The authors used a single-case research design with 6 Caucasian boys in kindergarten and 1st grade to measure the effectiveness of Adlerian play therapy on children’s classroom behaviors. The results revealed an improvement in the children’s behavior during and after the intervention, suggesting that Adlerian play therapy is a promising intervention for children’s externalizing classroom behaviors.

Title: So, What is Play Therapy and Why Should We Care?

Authors: Terry Kottman, PhD and Kristin Meany-Walen, PhD

Description: Play therapy is usually used as an intervention approach for working with young children who lack the abstract verbal abilities to articulate their difficulties clearly enough to receive support and assistance from counselors. Play therapy seems to work with children experiencing a broad range of difficulties. It can also be used as a modality to help older children, adolescents, and adults who would benefit from a fun, nonthreatening, creative expressive arts form of therapy.