Multicultural Play Therapy

<p><em>Multicultural Play Therapy</em> fills a wide gap in the play therapy literature. Each chapter helps expand play therapists’ cultural awareness, humility, and competence so they can work more effectively with children of diverse cultures, races, and belief systems. </p><p>The unique perspectives presented here provide play therapists and advanced students with concrete information on how to broach issues of culture in play therapy sessions, parent consultations, and in the play therapy field at large. The book includes chapters on multiple populations and addresses the myriad cultural background issues that emerge in play therapy, and the contributors include authors from multiple races, ethnicities, cultural worldviews, and orientations.</p> <p><strong>Part I: The Multicultural Orientation in Play Therapy</strong> 1. Cultural Humility and the Play Therapist<b> </b>2. Cultural Opportunities and Comfort in Play Therapy <b> </b>3. Integrating Social Justice Advocacy in Play Therapy<b> Part II: Cultural Opportunities in Play Therapy Across Populations </b>4. Cultural Opportunities with LGBTQIA Populations <b> </b>5. Cultural Opportunities with Religious Populations<b> </b>6. Cultural Opportunities with Children with Disabilities<b> </b>7. Cultural Opportunities with Indigenous Populations<b> </b>8. Cultural Opportunities with African American Populations<b> </b>9.Cultural Opportunities with Latinx Populations<b> </b>10. Cultural Opportunities with Asian Populations<b> </b>11. Cultural Opportunities with Middle Eastern Populations<b> </b>12. Becoming a Culturally-Inclusive White Play Therapist 13. Play Therapy with Children in Poverty<b> Part III: Special Topics in Multicultural Play Therapy </b>14. Culturally Inclusive Play Therapy Supervision<b> </b>15. The Multicultural Playroom<b> </b>16. Research Across Diverse Races/Ethnicities in Play Therapy <strong>Appendix: Reflective Questions</strong></p>