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Presents a new approach to child therapy that focuses on the considerable psychological significance of games and their use as a unique and largely untapped resource in diagnosis and therapy with children. Shows how to use specific types of games such as communication games, problem-solving games, ego-enhancing games, and socialization games in particular therapeutic situations. Author and subject indexes.

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Designed for and successfully used with adults, verbal therapies have proved far less successful with children. For the preschooler, play therapy with dolls, puppets, and costumes allows enactment of social and emotional problems. For the older child beyond the age of pretend play, games are a welcome alternative. Game Play reviews four categories of therapeutically useful games, including communication, problem-solving, ego-enhancing, and socialization games. Within each of these categories, several scholars describe their experience with various games. Case histories demonstrate the use of game play with childhood problems ranging from hyperactivity to divorce counseling and juvenile delinquency. Although there are several books on the use of games in therapy, in the variety of games described few are quite so extensive as Game Play. Apparently everything from dominos to chess can have a therapeutic use. Perhaps the claims are exaggerated a bit. Checkers is described so enthusiastically one begins to feel it must be a wonder drug. Well written, the book is appropriate for undergraduates.-K.L. Hartlep, California State College, Bakersfield