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Title: Relationship Play Therapy by Clark Moustakas ISBN: 0-7657-0029-8 Publisher: Jason Aronson Pub. Date: June, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Appreciation for a Founder
Comment: This text represents the final publication of the founder of Existential, and now called, Relationship Play Therapy. Moustakas's text is definitive in this theory of play therapy. The book is written in existential prose with specifics given to direct the therapist interested in this particular theory of therapy with children. To find this book valuable, the reader must believe in the child's capacity for self-determination and responsibility. In the present environment of behaviorial contracts and brief therapy interventions with little attention given to the developmental needs of childrem, Moustakas provides us with a refreshing return to seeing therapy as a committment to personal growth and development between therapist and client. The methodology and theory are meant to encourage personal responsibility and understanding that goes far beyond the immediate problem. The reader can be easily deluded by Moustakas's prose and writing style into believing that this is a simplistic theory. The application of the theory presented is beyond the lay person and requires training in psychotherapy to be effective. However, the reading and style of expression makes for easy understanding of a complex form of therapy.

Rating: 1
Summary: This Book Gives An Extremist View of Play Therapy
Comment: This book is dangerous for new-comers to psychotherapy, as the methods described would be appropriate to a very small minority of clients - highly repressed, anxious, guarded children - but the book prescribes the method for children in general. When reading it, one gets the impression that it was written during Freud's time, when repression and suppression were common barriers to treatment and common foci of treatment. In today's world, few children suffer from extreme inhibition and repression, and are thus in need of disinhibition and liberation from extreme guardedness. Instead, most children receiving mental health services (I work in an agency spealizing in this) are struggling with understanding limits and are already overly-disinhibited. They are in need of nurture and structure combined. Moustakas' methods of no-limits play therapy might produce some therapeutic revelations, but are also likely to generalize to further disinhibition and increased impulsivity and disregard for structure, limits, norms, reponsibilities, and consequences. In less formal terms, this book gives the reader a good formula for making a spoiled brat. We don't need more of those. For the veteran clinician, who can read this book and take it with a grain of salt, a few methods are described that might be good in a few specific situations. If you're new to the field or to working with children, please run the other way if you see this book on a shelf or website.