A casebook, rather than a formal textbook, illustrating a variety of techniques for working with children (ages 3-11) who have been traumatized. Combines play therapy with crisis intervention techniques. Cases presented are more than vignettes, and several are presented from beginning to end.

Assessment of the child in crisis / Nancy Boyd Webb -- Play therapy crisis intervention with children / Nancy Boyd Webb -- Observation of parental violence: case of Michael, age 4 / Nancy Boyd Webb -- Victim of sexual abuse: case of Rosa, age 6 / Virginia C. Strand -- Multiple traumas of refugees--near drowning and witnessing of maternal rape: case of Sergio, age 9 / Teresa Bevin -- Witness and victim of multiple abuses: collaborative treatment of 10-year-old Randy in a residential treatment center / Joan S. Doyle, David Stoop -- Repeated foster placements and attachment failure: case of Joseph, age 3 / Joyce M. Remkus -- The crisis of early maternal loss: unresolved grief of 6-year-old Chris in foster care / Corinne Masur -- Short-term play therapy with two preschool brothers following sudden paternal death / Barbara Saravay -- The effects of divorce precipitate a suicide threat: case of Philip, age 8 / Jane E. Price -- Visitation with divorced father provokes reemergence of unresolved family conflicts: case of Charlie, age 10 / Howard Robinson -- The crisis of paternal suicide: case of Cathy, age 4-1/2 / Dermot J. Hurley -- School-based peer therapy to facilitate mourning in latency-age children following sudden parental death / Joyce Bluestone -- Multiple losses in children of chemically dependent families: case of RJ, age 7 / Mary Ellen Johnston -- The crisis of acute hospitalization: case of Seth, age 7 / Susan Wojtasik, Sallie Sanborn -- Diagnosis of childhood cancer: case of Tim, age 6 / Robin F. Goodman -- AIDS in the family: case of Roberta, age 7 -- Steven E. Reid -- Life-threatening blood disorder: case of Daniel, age 11 / Carol P. Kaplan -- A crisis play group in a shelter following the Santa Cruz earthquake -- Jill Hofmann, Pam Rogers -- Individual, group, and family crisis counseling following a hurricane: case of Heather, age 9 / Cathy Dodds Joyner -- The aftermath of a plane crash--helping a survivor cope with deaths of mother and sibling: case of Mary, age 8 / Victor Fornari -- Afterword: the crisis of war / Nancy Boyd Webb.