Part I: Play Therapy: Its Therapeutic Power and Research Effects Chapter 1 The Therapeutic Powers of Play and Play Therapy (Charles E. Schaefer and Athena A. Drewes) Chapter 2 Meeting the Early Mental Health Needs of Children Through School-Based Play Therapy: A Review of Outcome Research (Sue C. Bratton ) Part II: Implementing Play Therapy in the Schools Chapter 3 Guidelines for Incorporating Play Therapy in the Schools (Kristi Perryman and Judy Doran) Chapter 4 Challenges and Barriers to Implementing Play Therapy in Schools (Dee Ray) Part III: Play-Based Assessments Chapter 5 Using Play Therapy Assessment in an Elementary and Intermediate School Setting (Mary May Schmidt) Chapter 6 Transdisciplinary Play-based Assessment and Intervention in the Primary Years (Toni Linder and Brittney Bixby) Part IV: Play-Based Prevention Programs with Paraprofessionals and Teachers Chapter 7 Helping Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers Foster Play in the Classroom (Karen Stagnitti) Chapter 8 Primary Project: An Evidenced Based Approach (Mary Anne Peabody, Deborah Johnson, and A. Dirk Hightower) Chapter 9 Child Teacher Relationship Training: Using the Power of the Child-Teacher Relationship as a School-Based Mental Health Intervention (Mary Morrison and Wendy Pretz Helker) Chapter 10 Treating Disruptive Classroom Behaviors of Preschoolers Through Teacher-Child Interaction Therapy (David McIntosh) Part V: Individual and Group Play Therapy Approaches Chapter 11 LEGO®-Based Play Therapy for Autistic Spectrum Children (Daniel LeGoff, G.W. Krauss, and Sarah Allen Levin) Chapter 12 Trauma-Focused Group Play Therapy in the Schools (Yih-Jiun Shen) Chapter 13 Group Sandplay in Elementary Schools (Theresa Kestly) Chapter 14 Play Therapy for Anger Management in the Schools (Barbara Fischetti) Chapter 15 Group Play Interventions for Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Linda Reddy) Part VI: Special Populations and Special Issues Chapter 16 Play Therapy for Children of Alcoholics (Laura Jacobus-Kantor and James G. Emshoff) Chapter 17 Understanding and Generalizing Communication Patterns in Children with Selective Mutism (Laurie Zelinger) Chapter 18 Play, Create, Express, Understand: Bereavement Groups in Schools (Ruthellen Griffin) Chapter 19 Redrawing the Front Line: A Play Therapy Service for Meeting the Psychosocial Needs of Children and Families in School (Geraldine Thomas) Chapter 20 The Nana?s Model: School-Based Play Therapy with Children who are Homeless or Severely Impoverished (Ana Sutton) Chapter 21 Better Playtimes : A School-Based Therapeutic Play Intervention for Staff and Children (Alison Woolf).