Publications
Play Therapy Ireland Members have access to:
- ‘Play for Life’ – the full colour practitioner journal published by Play Therapy International (PTI) and including contributions from Ireland
- Research reports based upon play therapy clinical outcomes data held in the SEPACTO database managed by PTUK on behalf of PTI and PTIrl.
Play Therapy Books
Play Therapy UK is in the process of constructing a play therapy bibliographic database which will be made available for all PTIrl Members. At present this has over 400 titles which are currently being classified and graded.
As an interim measure we list below the ‘most read’ play therapy books.
This list is based upon the number of book reviews produced by APAC’s students’ during the Certificate in Therapeutic Play and Diploma in Play Therapy courses. It is therefore derived from the course reading list and the usefulness found by the students. The list includes includes books about individual play therapy ‘tools’ such as music, sandtray, movement and drama as well as play therapy itself. The top three titles are recommended as essential reading for anyone who wishes to train as a Play Therapist. The list shows the title, publisher, ISBN and authors/editors.
1 Dibs in Search Of Self
Ballantine Books
0 345 33925 8
Virginia M Axline
2 Windows To Our Children
The Gestalt Journal Press
0-939266-06-7
Violet Oaklander
3 The Healing Path With Children An Exploration For Parents and Professionals
The Play Therapy Press Limited
1-896702-00-7
Mark A Barnes
(This title is available direct from Play Therapy International – please email: contact@ptiworldwide.org)
4 The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology A Contextual Approach
Routledge
0 415 19492 x
Allan Carr
5 Play Therapy
Ballantine Books
0 345 30335 0
Virginia Axline
6 The Handbook of PlayTherapy
Routledge
0-415-05986-0
Linnet McMahon
7 Child Centred Play Therapy
Arnold
0 340 65253 5
Janet West
8 Play Therapy The Art of Relationship
AD – Accelerated Development Inc.
1 55959 017 3
Garry L Landreth
9 Play Therapy
Bailliere Tindall
0-7020-1487-7
Kendrick, Ryan, Wilson
10 Counselling Children A Practical Introduction
Sage Publications Ltd
0-7619-5552-6
Kathryn Geldard, David Geldard
11 Reconnecting to the Magic of Life
Imaginal Press
0-9673280-0-4
Joyce Mills
12 Dramatherapy Theory and Practice 1
Routledge
0415-02922-8
Sue Jennings
13 Using Storytelling as a Therapeutic Tool with Children
Winslow Press
86388-274-9
Margot Sunderland
14 Storytelling with Children
The Hawthorn Press
1-869-890-02-7
Nancy Mellon
15 Inscapes of the Child’s World
Spring Publications
0-88214-338-7
J Allen
16 Moon Over Water Meditation Made Clear With Techniques For Beginners and Initiates
Gateway Books
0-946551.56.1
Jessica Macbeth
17 Attachment and Loss: Volume 1 Attachment
Penguin Books Ltd
0 14 013837 4
John Bowlby
17 Attachment And Loss : Volume 2 Separation Anxiety and Anger
Penguin Books Ltd
0 14 013838 2
John Bowlby
17 Attachment and Loss: Volume 3 Sadness And Depression
Penguin Books Ltd
0 14 013839 0
John Bowlby
18 Music Therapy. Intimate Notes
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
1-85301-692-1
Mercedes Pavlicevic
19 Sandplay Studies Origins, Theory and Practice
Sigo Press
0-938434-41-1
Katherine Bradway, Karen Signell, Geraldine Spare, Charles Stewart, Clare Thompson, Louis Stewart
20 Pied Piper Musical Activities to Develop Basic Skills
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
1-85302-997-7
Amelia Oldfield, John Bean
21 Music Therapy: An art beyond words
Routledge
0-415-08703-1
L Bunt
22 Dance Movement Therapy Theory and Practice
Routledge
0-415-05660-8
Helen Payne
23 Play Therapy Theory and Practice A Comparative Presentation
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
0-471-10638-0
Lisa Mages Braverman, Kevin J O’Connor
24 Theraplay Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships through
Attachment-Based Play
Jossey-Bass Publishers
0-7879-4302-9
Phyllis B. Booth, Ann M. Jernberg
25 Storymaking in Education and Therapy
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
1-85302-520-8
Nancy King, Alida Gersie
26 Understanding Children’s Sandplay – Lowenfeld’s World Technique
The Margaret Lowenfeld Trust
0952 1788 O X
Margaret Lowenfeld
27 Images of the Self
Sigo Press
0-9384343-16-0
E L Weinrib
28 Where the Sky meets the Underworld
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
7-85302-211-x
Ann Cattanach
29 Handbook of Play Therapy
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
0-471-09462-5
Kevin J. O’Connor, Charles E. Schaefer
