title: Integrating play therapy in the treatment of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
abstract: While behavioral and psychopharmacological approaches are the most effective interventions for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), psychodynamically oriented play therapy can enhance the treatment of children with this disorder. Play therapy techniques are useful in addressing treatment resistance, feelings of shame around OCD symptoms, negative self-concept, and issues of psychosocial adjustment. A case study illustrates this integrated approach to treatment.
authors.affiliation: University Center for the Child and the Family, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gold-Steinberg
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Logan
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010989:Play Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012649:Self Concept; D012752:Shame; D014167:Transference, Psychology