TRANSFORMATIVE EXPRESSIONS IN PLAY THERAPY (2025)
WORKING WITH LGBTQ+ CLIENTS
Volume I Foundations and Applications
Kurt W. Oster, LCSW, RPTTM and Margot Wilson, PhD (editors)
Transformative Expressions in Play Therapy: Working with LGBTQ+ Clients is a groundbreaking two-volume series that redefines the landscape of affirming care in child and adolescent therapy. Created for and by professionals in the mental health and healthcare fields, this comprehensive series centers on the voices, needs, and strengths of LGBTQ+ youth through the integrative use of play therapy, sand tray therapy, and expressive arts. Yet, it is written in language accessible to people new to the field and to the general reader as well.
Volume I: Foundations and Applications offers a thorough introduction to culturally responsive and identity-affirming practices. Emphasizing terminology, ethics, and clinical skills, this volume guides readers through key concepts, including LGBTQ+ identity development, trauma-informed care, and the intersectionality of race, culture, gender, and sexuality. Readers are equipped with practical strategies and clinical tools for fostering inclusive therapeutic environments that promote healing, resilience, and self-expression. Volume I also examines macro-level perspectives, scrutinizing the roles of community systems, public policy, and child welfare to help practitioners address broader societal influences on LGBTQ+ youth.
Together, the Transformative Expressions series presents a dynamic, affirming, and justice-oriented roadmap for integrating clinical insight with lived experience. It empowers play therapists to move beyond surface-level inclusion toward genuinely transformative engagement, where identity is affirmed, diversity is celebrated, and healing is attainable.
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Product details
Volume I
- Print length: 343 pages, $26.99 USD $36.72 CAD
- Ebook file length: 10.7 MB $9.99 USD $9.99 CAD
- Publisher: Perceptions Press
- Publication date: June 28, 2025
- Language: English
- ISBN: 978-998522-16-3 (paperback)
- ISBN: 978-1-998522-17-0 (Ebook)
- Item Weight: 1.3 pounds
- Dimensions: 6 x 0.78 x 9 inches