May/June 2022: Rediscovering Play: Are You and Your Clients Having Fun?

This issue looks at the field play therapy, including play therapy’s benefits and potential pitfalls. One article examines how incorporating play and humor in therapy can strengthen the therapeutic alliance, provide new insights, and help anxious clients get unstuck. Another looks at how attachment styles, gender, and power influence the use of destructive humor, and another looks at how play can be used with adult clients, and offers ways of prescribing play. Other articles cover the rise of virtual reality therapy, how to help aging couples create a shared vision for their retirement years, and what interpersonal neurobiology can teach us about forming healthy relationships.