All About Loving Bonding & Attachment

FirstPlay® Infant Play Therapy

The FirstPlay Infant Storytelling® program combines simple storytelling together with playful nurturing touch activities. In FirstPlay Infant Storytelling® sessions you will learn the Baby Tree Hug© story as taught by Certified FirstPlay® Infant Practitioners.

Check out this edited book by Dr. Courtney, "Infant Play Therapy: Foundations, Models, Programs and Practice." 

About the Book: 

Infant Play Therapy is a groundbreaking resource for practitioners interested in the varied play therapy theories, models, and programs available for the unique developmental needs of infants and children under the age of three. The impressive list of expert contributors in the fields of play therapy and infant mental health cover a wide range of early intervention play-based models and topics. Chapters explore areas including: neurobiology, developmental trauma, parent-infant attachment relationships, neurosensory play, affective touch, grief and loss, perinatal depression, adoption, autism, domestic violence, sociocultural factors, and more. Chapter case studies highlight leading approaches and offer techniques to provide a comprehensive understanding of both play therapy and the ways we understand and recognize the therapeutic role of play with infants. Professionals and students alike will find valuable clinical resources to bring healing to family systems with young children.

Parent-Infant volunteers attend the FirstPlay Infant training for a Live LAB and are guided by training practitioners in the FirstPlay®Parent Manual...Always an exciting time of training.  

Parents learn the story-massage the "Baby Tree Hug" 
Practitioners guide parents in the FirstPlay activities
All about loving bonding & attachment
"FirstPlay® has provided a wonderful way to have a special time during the day to bond with my baby. She looks forward to our time together." M. M. (Financial Analyst) 

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