Table of Contents
Section One: Models for Integration
1 Using both EMDR and prescriptive play therapy in Adaptive Information Processing: A rationale and essential considerations for integration
2 TraumaPlay and EMDR: Integration and nuance in holding hard stories
3 Room for everyone: EMDR and family-based play therapy in the sandtray
4 Synergetic Play Therapy Combined with EMDR Therapy
5 Treating trauma in young Children: Integrating EMDR, Child-centered Play Therapy, and Developmental Play Therapy
6 EMDR and Expressive Arts Therapy: How expressive arts therapy can extend the reach of EMDR with complex clients
7 Playful and creative approaches for EMDR therapy with Latinx children Viviana Urdaneta
8 Understanding and responding to dissociation in children with play-based approaches
Section Two: Play-based Interventions for EMDR Phases
9 Taking a play-based trauma history Ann Beckley-Forest
10 Building a Calm/Safe Place in the play therapy room with the Fort Tent Alice Stricklin
11 Using trauma-sensitive yoga and embodied play therapy for stabilization and resourcing Jennifer Lefebre
12 The Pocket Smock as a preparation phase resource
13 The “Lemon Squeezies” metaphor for EMDR processing with children
14 EMDR-infused Theraplay
15 Resource Wand for Bilateral Stimulation in EMDR Therapy
16 Using the Superhero Shuffle for bilateral stimulation in EMDR with children
17 “Splatting” out the trauma with movement in EMDR processing
18 Using the Color Hands approach to bilateral stimulation (BLS)
19 Play therapy targets for EMDR processing: How to get a “bulls-eye”
20 Effectively managing closure and reevaluation phase with parents