Costume Play Therapy

Marcus, Irwin M.

doi:10.1016/s0002-7138(09)62092-6

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“…In the past 15 to 20 years mental health practitioners from different theoretical backgrounds have developed a variety of innovative structured strategies for use in the diagnosis and treatment of children (Halpern & Kissel, 1976;Nickerson, 1973;Prout, 1977). Examples of innovations in clinical child intervention techniques include Gardner's (1975) use of storytelling and board games, Gittelman's (1965) behavior rehearsal, Lazarus & Abramovitz's (1962) "emotive imagery," Marcus's (1966) use of costumes in play therapy, Meichenbaum & Goodman's (1971) self-instructional training techniques for impulsive children, Minuchin et #/. 's (1967) program to strengthen listening and cognitive skills in delinquent children, Proskauer's (1969Proskauer's ( , 1971) time-limited therapy, Santostefano's (1971Santostefano's ( , 1975 diagnostic and therapy approaches in the areas of both affect and cognition, Schachter's (1974) kinetic group psychotherapy, and Winnicott's (1971) squiggle technique.…”

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Creative characters: A technique in child therapy.

Brooks¹

1981

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice

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This paper discusses the rationale and technique of Creative Characters, a structured approach to child therapeutic endeavors. This technique, which is most applicable for latency aged children, relies on the creation of stories and characters that are used by the child therapist to articulate, elaborate, and help resolve a child's emotional conflicts and foster ego development. The efficacy of Creative Characters as a therapeutic strategy is seen to reside in its use of displacement and metaphor, its functions of binding anxiety andfacilitating cognitive focusing, and very importantly, its promotion of a sense of mastery and competence. Clinical case material is presented to illustrate the application of the Creative Characters technique in handling problems familiar to child therapists.

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