Tracy Turner-Bumberry – författare

AutPlay® Therapy Play and Social Skills Groups provides practitioners with a step-by-step guide for implementing a social skills group to help children and adolescents with autism improve on their play and social skills deficits in a fun and engaging way. This unique 10-session group model incorporates the AutPlay Therapy approach focused on relational and behavioral methods. Group setup, protocol, and structured play therapy interventions are presented and explained for easy implementation by professionals. Also included are parent implemented interventions that allow parents and/or caregivers to become co-change agents in the group process and learn how to successfully implement AutPlay groups. Any practitioner or professional who works with children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder will find this resource to be a unique and valuable guide to effectively implementing social skills groups.

The second edition of AutPlay® Therapy Play and Social Groups provides a neurodiversity‑affirming perspective to help children and parents build healthy relationships, gain positive identity, build relationships with peers in ways that are meaningful for them, and help them navigate social situations to get what they want and need.Practitioners are provided with a step‑by‑step guide for implementing play and social groups for neurodivergent children and adolescents. This unique group model incorporates the AutPlay Therapy framework focused on neurodiversity‑affirming methods, including the implementation of play therapy theory and approach. Updates to the second edition include a complete neurodiversity‑affirming overhaul of the first five chapters, updated research and inclusive language, and a new chapter with more group interventions designed to address additional issues such as relationship building and connection.Through this resource, practitioners across disciplines who work with neurodivergent children and adolescents will find a unique and valuable guide to implementing play and social‑focused groups.

The second edition of AutPlay® Therapy Play and Social Groups provides a neurodiversity‑affirming perspective to help children and parents build healthy relationships, gain positive identity, build relationships with peers in ways that are meaningful for them, and help them navigate social situations to get what they want and need.Practitioners are provided with a step‑by‑step guide for implementing play and social groups for neurodivergent children and adolescents. This unique group model incorporates the AutPlay Therapy framework focused on neurodiversity‑affirming methods, including the implementation of play therapy theory and approach. Updates to the second edition include a complete neurodiversity‑affirming overhaul of the first five chapters, updated research and inclusive language, and a new chapter with more group interventions designed to address additional issues such as relationship building and connection.Through this resource, practitioners across disciplines who work with neurodivergent children and adolescents will find a unique and valuable guide to implementing play and social‑focused groups.