Integrating Extremes: Aggression and Death in the Playroom

by Lisa Dion

Play therapy can do more than we thought. Much more. Integrating Aggression and Death in the Playroom offers a new perspective on working with kids. Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S, provides therapists and other professionals that work with kids a science-based process for working with children at the deepest, most profound levels of healing while staying safe and sane. This book explores a new understanding of aggression and death play that's based on brain function and neuro-science. It provides therapists with a framework to authentically work with the intensity of aggression and death play, without causing their own nervous systems to start to shut down. Integrating Extremes shows therapists how to facilitate aggression and death play in a way that truly allows healing to occur, for both the therapist and the child, at the deepest level possible.

174 pages, Paperback

Published February 25, 2016

Reviews

[Gaby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great integration of neuropsychology and play therapy!! Definitely looking forward to implementing these skills in the playroom.

[Raquel · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a parent, this was really interesting and gave me lot of insight.

[Johanna · Rating 2 out of 5]

This author borrows heavily from other theories and adds little innovative material and misses many critical parts of efficacious therapy with children. This material may appeal to new therapists who are seeking some basic information and a template from which to work, however seasoned therapists will most likely see evident gaps in this approach.