The Serious Need for Play by Melinda Wenner, Scientific American

On August 1, 1966, the day psychiatrist Stuart Brown started his assistant professorship at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, 25-year-old Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower on the Austin campus and shot 46 people. Whitman, an engineering student and a former U.S. Marine sharpshooter, was the last person anyone expected to go on a killing spree. Read More...

The 12 Most Annoying Habits of Therapists by Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times

The mental health Web site PsychCentral notes that we all have bad habits. But when the person with the bad habit is your therapist, it has “the very real potential of interfering with the psychotherapy process.” Here, according to PsychCentral founder John M. Grohol, are the 12 most annoying habits patients complain about, and some additional thoughts from readers. Read more...

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A great way to learn and test your play therapy knowledge. Each audio play therapy program is presented in 30-minute parts or segments. Without charge, you may listen to these programs at your computer, or download them to your MP3 player, CD, iPod, or computer.

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