📚 Play Therapy

Books with play therapy on their catalogue record, first published between 1947 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject play therapy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 614 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Play therapy	Garry L. Landreth	1982	13
	Child Parent Relationship Therapy	Garry L. Landreth	2005	13
	Child Parent Relationship Therapy Treatment Manual	Sue C. Bratton	2006	11
	Digital Play Therapy	Jessica Stone	2020	11
	Play in child development and psychotherapy	Sandra Walker Russ	2002	10
	Child-centered play therapy	Nancy H. Cochran	2010	10
	Play Therapy	Virginia M. Axline	1947	9
	Arts Therapies and the Mental Health of Children and Young People	Uwe Herrmann	2021	9
	Dibs	Virginia M. Axline	1964	8
	Introduction to play therapy	Ann Cattanach	2003	8
	The therapeutic play group	Mortimer Schiffer	1969	7
	Handbook of play therapy	Charles E. Schaefer	1983	7
	Play Therapy	Terry Kottman	2001	7
	Supervision of Sandplay Therapy	Harriet Friedman	2007	7
	Sandplay Therapy	Grace L. Hong	2010	7
	Play and Power	Karen Vibeke Mortensen	2010	7
	Group Play Therapy	Daniel S. Sweeney	2014	7
	Puppet-Assisted Play Therapy	Cheryl Hulburd	2020	7
	Cognitive-behavioral play therapy	Susan M. Knell	1993	6
	Partners in play	Terry Kottman	1995	6
	Sandplay	Kay Bradway	2005	6
	Window Frames	Peter Mortola	2006	6
	The handbook of play therapy and therapeutic play	Linnet McMahon	2009	6
	Linking Parents to Play Therapy	Deborah Killough-McGuire	2013	6
	Play and Wellbeing	Cindy Clark	2016	6
	Play in Healthcare for Adults	Alison Tonkin	2016	6
	Puppet Play Therapy	Athena A. Drewes	2017	6
	Practical Guide to Play Therapy in the Outdoors	Ali Chown	2017	6
	Infant Play Therapy	Janet A. Courtney	2020	6
	Playing with Words	Rosemary Portmann	2001	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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