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Dr. Crenshaw's New Therapy Book Is Now Available
Evocative Strategies in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Jason Aronson, a
Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This book
written by Dr. Crenshaw for all therapists, counselors, play therapists,
art, expressive, and creative arts therapists, family therapists who
work with children describes in detail with clinical examples more than
170 new creative strategies for engaging children and adolescents in
meaningful therapeutic exchange.
Reviews
“Reading David
Crenshaw’s new book is an evocative experience that elicits feelings of
sadness, anger, despair, surprise, excitement, hope and pure joy. David
demonstrates the integrative approach in his book that he advocates in
his work: A true anchoring of technique in theory. He more than meets
the challenge of contemporary clinicians of substantiating their
approaches with a thorough understanding of the available science. The
end result is a masterful blend of a solid foundation that serves as a
springboard for lovely, spirited, and purposeful leaps of creativity. I
highly recommend this informative, moving, and immediately useful
book. Eliana Gil, Ph.D., Multicultural Clinical Center, Springfield,
VA; Author of the Healing Power of Play and Family Play
Therapy
"Evocative
Strategies in Child and Adolescent Therapy clearly deserves to be in
every library of all clinicians working with children and adolescents.
David Crenshaw's clinical use of metaphor, storytelling, art, poetry,
role playing, drama and rituals is nothing short of masterful. This book
is a ground-breaking contribution to the field and will continue to
nourish those who read it and be gifted by the inherent teachings for
years to come." Joyce
C. Mills, Ph.D. LMFT, RPT-S IBECPT, Co-author:
Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within, and
Author: Reconnecting to the Magic of Life
"A superb
description of the clinical application of drawing and storytelling
techniques that child therapists can put to immediate use in their
practice. Highly recommended!" Charles E. Schaefer, Ph.D., RPT-S
co-editor: Contemporary Play Therapy and Short-Term Play
Therapy for Children.
Contents
Dr. Crenshaw
has identified twenty different kinds of evocative strategies.
Therapists use evocative techniques to elicit vivid memories,
recollections, or associations or to stimulate emotionally meaningful
dialogue. The word “evoke” suggests depth and “summoning forth.” Dr.
Crenshaw has identified twenty different categories of evocative
strategies:
1) Evocative
Narrative Stems
2) Evocative
Stories
3) Evocative
Drawings
4) Evocative
Projective Drawing and Storytelling
5) Evocative
Scenarios
6) Evocative
Proverbs and Ancient Parables
7) Evocative
Quotations, and Sayings
8) Evocative
Imagery and Fantasy Techniques
9) Evocative
Role Playing Techniques
10) Evocative
Writing Assignments
11) Evocative
Child-Centered Symbolic Play Interventions
12) Evocative
Directive Symbolic Play Interventions
13) Evocative
“Child-Friendly” CBT Interventions
14) Evocative
Dramatic Skits
15) Evocative
Rituals
16) Evocative
Use of Symbols
17) Evocative
Use of Dream Symbols as Metaphors
18) Evocative
Use of the Self as Therapist
19) Evocative
Child Statements and Empathic Translations
20) Evocative
Positive Memories
Each category
of evocative strategies is illustrated in chapters organized according
to developmentally cogent themes ranging from preschool children through
school age and adolescence. The majority of the techniques are geared
toward school age children and teens, but some are suitable, for
instance the Bramley Story Series (for working with grief), for
preschool children. The chapter themes are as follows:
Attachment and Loss
Power and Control
Aggression, Chaos and Violence
Anxiety, Fear and Terror
Conflict and Struggle
Search for Meaning
Courage and Determination
Inner Strength and Resources
Empathy for Self and Others
Healing, Transformation and Hope
The book
contains 17 chapters with the last three chapters containing three
compelling, in-depth therapy case studies in which evocative strategies
played a key role in the therapy outcome.
Dr. Crenshaw
continues to identify and create more categories of evocative strategies
and intends to make those available on his website, so please visit
often to learn of the additional categories of evocative strategies and
specific techniques he is developing.
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Dr.
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