Kantor, C. / Published 2023 / Presentation
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There are no supporting materials for this presentation. | Presenter | Charles Kantor, Ph.D. |
| Date | September 30, 2023 |
| Abstract: | At the 2008 Conference of the Society for Descriptive Psychology, I presented a Descriptive Psychology formulation of the significance of play in the development of children.The presentation was subsequently published as Children’s Imaginative Play in volume IX of Advances in Descriptive Psychology (2010). Therapeutic role playing with children was briefly described near the end of this article. I wrote: “A more formalized version of the use of imaginative play to help children reassign statuses and reconstruct their worlds is play therapy with children and more specifically role playing therapy with children. Role playing involves setting up scenarios within the play therapy setting and having these scenarios be versions of what the child is struggling with outside the play room. By trying on different statuses and acting as a self assigner of these statuses, a child in play therapy can experience increased behavior potential and then take that ‘act’ on the road, into Our world.” This presentation will be a more in depth exploration of this role playing approach. By virtue of a case study, the variety of ways to introduce and set up a role play and the status dynamic approaches the therapist employs to enhance the behavior potential of young clients will be illustrated. |
| References and Related Papers |
1. Bergner, R.M. (2007). Status dynamics: An enriching path to therapeutic change. Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press. 2. Kantor, C. (2010). Children’s Imaginative Play: A Descriptive Psychology Approach. In K. E. Davis, F. Lubuguin, & W. Schwartz (Eds.), Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol.9. (pp. 257-285). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press. 3.Knudsen, H. and Schaefer, C., Eds. (1997). 101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques. London, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 4. Roberts, M.K. (1992). Companions of uncertain status. In M.K. Roberts, & R.M. Bergner, (Eds.). Clinical Topics: Contributions to the Conceptualization and Treatment of Adolescent-Family Problems, Bulimia, Chronic Mental Illness, and Mania. Advances in Descriptive Psychology: Vol. 6, (pp. 33-77). Ann Arbor, MI: Descriptive Psychology Press. 5. Roberts, M. (1985). Worlds and world reconstruction. In K. Davis and T. Mitchell (Eds.), |