She and her husband constructed a groundbreaking intervention to teach play therapy skills to parents so that they could use them with their children
Who is Louise Gurney?
This intervention involves asking families to draw themselves on a piece of paper
What is a Family Drawing?
This theory argues that it is more important to examine the interactions of the entire family, rather than the actions of any one individual in that family
What is Systems Theory?
Family interventions are distinct from other forms of Play Therapy because they identify this as the client rather than any one individual child?
What is the family system?
This groundbreaking intervention redesigned the therapeutic process by inviting parents to learn therapeutic play skills to use on their own with their children
What is Filial Therapy?
This psychiatrist formed concepts of understanding how family systems manage stress and sometimes form dysfunctional family structures
Who is Murray Bowen?
This intervention comes with various feelings and needs cards
What is Grok Kids?
This Bowenian concept is a reaction to stress where a family member disengages or checks-out or attempts to runaway or move away from family system
What is Emotional Cutoff?
Most play based family interventions mandates that all of these be brought to as many sessions as possible
What are family members?
This family intervention is not considered Play Therapy and aims at coaching parents in how to redirect children to stop unwanted behaviors
What is PCIT?
She is regarded as a guru of Family Play Therapy and has published many books on creative play based interventions
Who is Eliana Gil?
This intervention involves having a child physically mold family members into a scene
What is Family Sculpling?
This Bowenian concept occurs when two insiders in a family system reach out and involve another to negotiate conflict
What is triangulation?
Filial and CPRT sessions differ from most other treatments in that they meet weekly for this long.
Two hours
This distinct family level intervention focuses on guiding parents and children through interactive dyadic games to build attachment
What is Theraplay?
He reformatted the original Filial Therapy to be more structured and of shorter duration.
Who is Dr. Gary Landreth?
This intervention involves family members selecting specific miniatures to represent their family tree
What is a Family Kinetic Sandtray?
This concept identifies how much or how little an individual is impacted by social and familial pressures and is a how controlling of others they may be
What is differentiation of self?
CPRT emphasis parent's use of four distinct attitudinal traits collectively termed known as this (I am here, I hear you, I understand, and I care)
What are the 'Be With' attitudes?
This model is distinguished by its integrative blend of support group, didactive instruction, and supervision
What is CPRT?
He originally conceptualized Filial Therapy and went on to research it's effectiveness with his wife
Who is Bernard Guerney?
This intervention involves asking family members to take turns naming things they appreciate about each other
What is the Gratitude Game?
This Bowenian concept identifies a pattern where parent's anxiety creates a self-fulfilling prophecy in their children
What is Family Projection Process?
In the eclectic Family Play Therapy, interventions are not manualized but instead chosen based on their ability to facilitate what processes?
Relational Processing, Communication, and Empathy Building
This approach is a less structured approach and is divided into four distinct stages
What is Family Play Therapy?