Jill Bellinson, Ph.D., is a faculty member and supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute, the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. She has played board games with children in therapy for more than 20 years, most recently in private practice in New York City.

Dr. Bellinson has written the most valuable kind of professional book: one that will change the way you do therapy. Her insights into the meanings of children's behavior while playing board games are enlightening. Her clinical examples and her suggestions regarding the therapeutic use of these behaviors are even more insightful. This book is not vague or pretentious. It is straightforward, practical, and likely to lead readers to their own creative use of the only expressive medium that most latency-age children will choose to use in the playroom. This is a significant contribution to a crucial but neglected area of child therapy.

Jill Bellinson, Ph.D., is a faculty member and supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute, the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. She has played board games with children in therapy for more than 20 years, most recently in private practice in New York City.

Dr. Bellinson has written the most valuable kind of professional book: one that will change the way you do therapy. Her insights into the meanings of children's behavior while playing board games are enlightening. Her clinical examples and her suggestions regarding the therapeutic use of these behaviors are even more insightful. This book is not vague or pretentious. It is straightforward, practical, and likely to lead readers to their own creative use of the only expressive medium that most latency-age children will choose to use in the playroom. This is a significant contribution to a crucial but neglected area of child therapy.

Jill Bellinson, Ph.D., is a faculty member and supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute, the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. She has played board games with children in therapy for more than 20 years, most recently in private practice in New York City.

Dr. Bellinson has written the most valuable kind of professional book: one that will change the way you do therapy. Her insights into the meanings of children's behavior while playing board games are enlightening. Her clinical examples and her suggestions regarding the therapeutic use of these behaviors are even more insightful. This book is not vague or pretentious. It is straightforward, practical, and likely to lead readers to their own creative use of the only expressive medium that most latency-age children will choose to use in the playroom. This is a significant contribution to a crucial but neglected area of child therapy.