PlayLit

PlayLit Online Bibliography of Play Therapy Literature

Did you know that CPT houses the world’s largest play therapy library? We have collected thousands of books, articles, dissertations, and more on play therapy and child development. This library is available to anyone on the University of North Texas campus, but our goal is to make it available to anyone in the world through our new online database, PlayLit. PlayLit is a searchable, user friendly database that you can use to find anything you need to know about play therapy. Right now, you can access the APA references for every entry in our library. To find the full length articles, you can copy and paste the reference or the DOI into your web browser or your university’s online library search bar (some entries will be open access and can viewed by all users, while other entries may require payment or special access through memberships). PlayLit is the best place to start your research into play therapy and child development.

How to Use PlayLit

This database includes over 5,000 entries regarding many different aspects of play therapy. In order to help you sort through these entries to find the items you need, we have included a filter function along with a general search bar. The search bar can be useful, but may yield a plethora of results. If you are looking to condense your search results, click on the "add filter" button below. You can add as many filters as you want to narrow your results. For example, if you are interested in finding what has been written about child-centered play therapy for children diagnosed with ASD, you can click on "Add Filter" then "Theory/Treatment Model" then "Child-Centered Play Therapy." Then add a second filter by clicking on "Add Filter" then "Disorders/Presenting Concerns" then "Autism Spectrum Disorder." Click apply and all journal articles, magazine articles, book chapters, books, etc. concerning both child-centered play therapy and ASD will populate on the page for you. You will find many references for research articles on play therapy in this database, but if you are interested specifically in outcome research related to play therapy, we advise that you use our Evidence-Based Research Databaseto get specific information and summaries related to more stringent play therapy research.

 

Connolly, B. D. (2008). Are play therapists more playful?: A comparison of playfulness in therapists (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from Dissertation Abstracts International.

Li, A. (1983, December). Play therapy with mentally retarded children. Association for Play Therapy Newsletter, 2, 3-6.

Li, A. (1981). Play and the mentally retarded child. Mental Retardation, 19, 121-126.

Crenshaw, D., & Kronengold, H. (2016). Resilience in the play drama: When the hero exits stage right. Play Therapy, 11(2), 6-10.

West, C. (2001). Play/therapy: A Vygotskian perspective. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 20, 60-67.

(1997). The Dialogue of Touch: Developmental Play Therapy. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aranson.

Boswell, J. N. (2014). The use of child parent relationship and common parent concerns: Voices from the community. The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 22, 382-389.

Cornett, N. (2012). Filial therapy and the family: Examining the impact of child parent relationship therapy (cprt) (). Retrieved from UNT Theses and Dissertations.

Cornett, N., & Bratton, S. C. (2014). Examining the impact of child parent relationship therapy (cprt) on family functioning. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, , 1-17.

Bowers Riedel, N. (2009). A naturalistic study of the early relationship development process of nondirective play therapy. International Journal of Play Therapy, 18, 176-189.

Frick-Helms, S. (2008). Question number one in child-centered play therapy: What is the ideal frequency of empathic responses?. Play Therapy, 3, 14-16.

Frels, R. K., & Onwuegbuzie, A. J. (2012). Principals of play: A dialogical comparison of two case studies in school-based mentoring. International Journal of Play Therapist, 21, 131-148.

Godinho, F. (2007). Is there a rationale, in terms of current knowledge and research, for the use of non-directive play therapy with non-verbal autistic children?. British Journal of Play Therapy, 3, 52-63.

(2012). The adoptive & foster guid: How to heal your child's trauma and loss. USA: Forever-Families.

(2008). Emotion-regulating play therapy with ADHD children: Staying with playing. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.

Ray, D.C., Sullivan, J. M., Carlson, S. E. (2012). Rleational intervention: Child-centered play therapy with children on the autism spectrum. In L. Gallo-Lopez & L.C. Rubin (Eds.) (Eds.), Play-based interventions for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (pp. 159-175). New York, NY: Routledge.

Association for Play Therapy (2002). . Paper presented at , St. Louis.

Ariel, S. (). . Paper presented at Paper presented at the Netherlands Organization for Postgraduate Education in Social Sciences International Symposium on Play Therapy. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, .

Levant, R., & Haffey, N. (). . Paper presented at Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Quebec, Canada, .

Hellendoorn, J., Harinck, F., & Mostert, P. (). . Paper presented at Paper presented at the 11th International Congress of Psychotherapy, Amsterdam.

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