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Inviting the Spirit of Play to Transform Trauma: Healing for All Ages

Author(s) : Monica C. Blum

Table of Contents

A Playful Introduction to Trauma Treatment

Part 1 - Trauma
1. What is Trauma?
2. The Disturbance of Trauma: Dysregulation, Disintegration, and Disconnection

Part 2 - Play
3. Play - The Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of Play
4. The Incredible Powers of Plays

Part 3 - How Play Meets Trauma and Trauma Welcomes Play
5. Play's Relationship to Trauma
6. How Trauma Symptoms Welcome Playfulness: From Enemies to Allies

Part 4 - Infusing a Play Spirit into Trauma Treatment
7. Creating a Playful Therapy Setting: A Safe, Sensorimotor-Sensitive Space for Exploration and Healing
8. Growing Our Playfully Spirited Therapist Self

Part 5 - Integration and Synthesis: Playing with the Elements Needed to Promote Change in Trauma Treatment
9. Playing with Change
10. Playing with Safety: Navigating Waves of Affect
11. Playing with Dialectics: Multiplicity and Contradictions
12. Playing with Connection Through Boundaries
13. Playing with Telling the Trauma Story Are We Done Yet?—A Playful

Conclusion to Trauma Treatment
Index