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Are you interested in play therapy or therapy with children and adolescents? Do you have a child in therapy and you wonder how playing with toys is going to possibly help you child? Learn more about therapy with children and adolescents in this episode of The Psych Files. In part 1 I interview Dr. Martha Straus – experienced therapist and author of No Talk Therapy and the book Adolescent Girls in Crisis. If you’ve ever wondered what psychotherapists do and say in therapy then this episode is for you. We also touch upon evidence based treatment, goals in therapy, and parent expectations of therapists. Come have a listen to an experienced therapist talk about her work.
 
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Amen! Love this podcast. So many people, even my fellow therapists, just don’t get how to work with children. So glad to have this podcast to educate others that play therapy is actually REAL therapy.
Mike
PS- “Dr.” Phil isn’t a therapist!
Yes, I thought Dr. Straus speaks for play therapy quite well – very professionally. Glad you agree. (I thought Dr. Phil was a therapist – guess I don’t watch him enough). – Michael
Well, what I meant was, that Dr. Phil is an entertainer. He kinda makes us real therapists cringe just a bit.
MB
I see what you’re saying. Can’t argue there – he’s definitely an entertainer. It’s a pitty that we don’t have a therapist in the public light that we are not embarrassed by. I suppose Seligman and Zimbardo get a lot of press and are not embarrassments.