Contributed by David Crenshaw
Rewriting the Story
Entering the World of the Abused ChildTherapists must offer abused children a different felt experience of who they are. Read more
Treating the Dissociative Child
The Road Back from the Ultimate Loss of SelfFew cases offer as eerie a therapeutic challenge as a suddenly noncommunicative child, lost in a dissociative shutdown. Read more
The Healing Power of Play
Helping the traumatized child find safety againThe child therapist approaches the child who can't play by introducing play activities one step at the time. Read more
In His Footsteps
Lessons of acceptance from an older brotherCrenshaw discusses how the mental and neurological illness, punctuated by psychotic episodes, of his older brother Bob, taught him a lesson in humility. Bob... Read more
David Crenshaw
David A. Crenshaw, PhD, ABPP, is Clinical Director of the Children’s Home of Poughkeepsie. He is Past-President of the New York Association for Play Therapy, a Board-Certified Clinical Psychologist; a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a Fellow of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychology, a Fellow of the Academy of Clinical Psychology, and a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor. He was honored with the Excellence in Psychology Award in 2009 and has received two Lifetime Achievement Awards: in 2012 by the Hudson Valley Psychological Association, and in 2018 by the NY Association for Play Therapy. He is the author/editor/co-editor of 17 books, over 100 book chapters, and journal articles on child aggression, play therapy and child trauma, his books co-edited with Cathy Malchiodi are What to Do When Children Clam-Up in Psychotherapy and a book co-written with Eliana Gil titled Termination Challenges in Child Psychotherapy.