Play therapy is not an approach based on guess, trial and error, or whims of the play therapists at the moment. Play therapy is a well-thought-out, philosophically conceived, developmentally based and research-supported approach to helping children cope with and overcome the problems they experience in the process of living their lives. This book is unusual in play therapy literature in that existing findings of play therapy research studies and case reports have all been brought together in one volume. As the reader will note, the popular myth that play therapy requires a long-term commitment for many months is dispelled by the findings of many of the studies reported in this book, which supports a short-term approach.