The practice patterns and attitudes of play therapists on family play therapy: where are we?

TL;DR: De Shazer's work is testimony to simplicity and parsimony in the therapeutic art of addressing the complex as discussed by the authors, and his case examples read like well-written detective novels, and his concept of skeleton key interventions is both provocative and promising.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 93 controlled outcome studies conducted to assess the overall efficacy of play therapy revealed that effects were more positive for humanistic than for nonhumanistic treatments and that using parents in play therapy produced the largest effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a basic theory of collaborative narrative play, as well as verbal and nonverbal techniques that clear the way for stories of hope, possibility, and change.

TL;DR: The findings indicated that marriage and family therapists treat a wide range of serious mental health and relational problems, that they do so in relatively short-term fashion, thatThey use individual, couple, and family treatment modalities, that couple and family therapy are briefer than individual therapy, and that client satisfaction and functional improvement are quite high.