A Therapist's Guide to Child Development: The Extraordinarily Normal Years

Editor : Dee C. Ray

A Therapist's Guide to Child Development: The Extraordinarily Normal Years

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2025
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 242
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Child and Adolescent Studies
  • Catalogue No : 98270
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032685496
  • ISBN 10 : 1032685492

Reviews and Endorsements

What a wonderful new resource for play therapists and others who work with children. It is truly ‘extraordinary’! Dr. Ray and her coauthors have found a very usable, focused way to describe the development of each childhood year. This is unusually detailed, very helpful, and insightful! The handouts for parents are an added plus and add to making this book a winner! And a new supplementary textbook for my classes!
Linda Homeyer, PhD, LPCS, RPTS, distinguished professor emerita, Texas State University

A Therapist's Guide to Child Development is an essential addition to the play therapy literature. This edited book does a masterful job of integrating the classic works in child development with the work of play therapists. The structure of the book is makes it an easy-to-read resource, as the chapters are organized by age, and each chapter has the same sections. This book is a must have for play therapists, parents of young children, and students.
Phyllis Post, PhD, LPCS, RPT, professor of counseling and director of the Multicultural Play Therapy Center, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Dr. Ray's book is a practical resource that all child counselors and counselors-in-training should own! Dr. Ray integrates and applies developmental theories, clinical expertise, and brain research to developmentally appropriate work with children birth to 12. This text will be one that child therapists will reference again and again in their work with children, parents, and teachers.
April Schottelkorb, PhD, LPC, RPT-S, Big Sky Pediatric Counseling & Consulting, Kalispell, Montana

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