Contents:
Foreword: Play Therapy Through the Lens of the Polyvagal Theory –Â Stephen W. Porges
1. How the Science of Relationships Impacts Our Thinking about Development: Interruptions, Happenings, and Expressions of Risk or Resilience – Marilyn R. Sanders
2. Listening Inside Our Bodies, Outside our Bodies, and Between Bodies: Interoception, Exteroception, and Setting Up a Polyvagal Informed Playroom – Paris Goodyear-Brown and Lorri A. Yasenik
3. The Sounds of Safety in an Unsafe World: Recovering from Domestic Violence Through Polyvagal Informed Play Therapy –Â Lorri A. Yasenik and Jennifer Buchanan
4. The Genius of the Disembodied Self: Coping with Childhood Sexual Abuse –Â Paris Goodyear-Brown and Sueann Kenney-Noziska
5. Healing Attachment Ruptures with Safety and Connection through Play – Jackie Flynn and Bridger Falkenstien
6. Neurodivergencies: Incorporating Polyvagal Theory –Â Karen Stagnitti
7. Plagues, Pandemics, and the Polyvagal Theory in the Playroom –Â Natalie Nadiprodjo and Judi Parson
8. Reclaiming a Feeling of Safety in Natural Disasters: Preparatory and Advanced Interventions Using Play and Play Therapy –Â Claudio Mochi and Isabella Cassina
9. Polyvagal-Informed Practice to Support Children and Caregivers in War: Toward the Creation of a Huge and Reassuring Playroom –Â Isabella Cassina and Claudio Mochi
10. Anxiety, the Autonomic Nervous System and Play as Mechanisms of Change –Â Lynn Louise Wonders
11. Polyvagal Theory and Play Therapy with Children who Exhibit Aggression –Â David Crenshaw and Lisa Dion
12. Helping Depressed, Dissociative, and Withdrawn Children: Integrating Holistic Expressive Play Therapy and Polyvagal Theory – Marie José Dhaese and Richard Gaskill
13. Nature and Play as Polyvagal Partners in Play Therapy –Â Maggie Fearn and Janet Courtney
14. Child Centered Play Therapy: Person of the Therapist Presence, Neuroception of Safety, and Co-Regulation –Â Sue Bratton and Alyssa
15. Safety in Sand and Symbols: Polyvagal Shifts in the Sand Tray –Â Marshall Lyles and Linda Homeyer
16. Expressive Arts Therapy as Polyvagal Play: Shifting States Towards Safety –Â Carmen Richardson
17. Animal Assisted Play Therapyâ„¢ as a Polyvagal Process –Â Mary Rottier and Rebecca Dickinson
18. Digital Play Therapyâ„¢: Harnessing the Felt Sense of Safety in the Digital Space – Jessica Stone and Rachel Altvater